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*Additional allowance granted to Lieutenant John Owen for enlisting German, Austrian and Polish recruits at the Cape of Good Hope in 1796-97. [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-f4_1&cid=1-1-74-2#1-1-74-2 '''IOR/F/4/74/1609'''] Aug 1795-Aug 1799
*Question of the pensions and allowances to be granted to the officers of the Swiss [[De Meuron Regiment|Regiment De Meuron]] (includes lists of officers of the regiment and a copy of the Capitulation of 25 September 1798) [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-f4_1&cid=1-1-78-5#1-1-78-5 '''IOR/F/4/78/1728'''] Sep 1798-Apr 1800
*Six months' advance of pay is made to Captain N.J. De Bergeon and Captain Francois Louis Lenn, two officers of the [[De Meuron Regiment|Regiment De Meuron ]] who remained behind in India when the regiment left for Europe. [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-f4_3&cid=1-1-51-4#1-1-51-4 '''IOR/F/4/234/5396'''] Jul-Oct 1806
Also see External Links, below
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2007-01/1168720400 thread] advises that there were lots of German Regiments in India especially during the 18th Century and until about 1820, including captured Wuttenburgers from the Dutch service who were brought in from South Africa to fight for the EIC. Many references in the India Office records are listed, including the raising of Swiss and Hanoverian Regiments. This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2008-08/1218610422 thread] is on similar matters.
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2006-06/1149438720 thread] mentions the Hanoverian Regiments and this [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1999-02/0919004517 post] mentions Swiss regiments
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-12/1261348709 thread] mentions the Swiss mercenary [[De Meuron Regiment|regiment of De Meuron ]] largely manned by Germans, who were working for the Dutch but who switched sides when the British took over the Cape of Good Hope in 1795
*In 1860 the 109th Regiment of Foot in India was joined by 500 men of the Jaeger Corps who had volunteered from the Cape Colony (part of South Africa under British Occupation until 1910) for service in India on the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny according to this India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2004-03/1078511503 thread]
*This India list [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2008-08/1218693873 thread] is about Germans in Dutch East India Company regiments in India or the East Indies and advises they were often taken over by the EIC
