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In 1819 the regiment received orders to disband and the overwhelming majority of its soldiers transferred to other regiments then stationed in South India, including the [[13th Light Dragoons]], [[22nd Light Dragoons]] and various European Veteran Battalions of the East India Company. HM 25th Light Dragoons was disbanded at Chatham, England on 24th November 1819.
== External Links links ==
*[http://www.lightdragoons.org.uk/regimental_history/index.php Light Dragoons Regimental History] www.lightdragoons.org.uk
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20070807154127/http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/bull.htm Bull Family History in India] from Cathy Day’s archived website Family History in India . William Bull was in the [[23rd Light Dragoons|19th Light Dragoons]], later transferring, in order to remain in India, to the 25th Light Dragoons and the [[Carnatic European Veteran Battalion]]. His son-in-law William Drudge joined the 25th Light Dragoons , later transferring in 1819, again to remain in India, to the [[22nd Light Dragoons]], and then the [[13th Light Dragoons]].
===Historical books online===
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JEgVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA86 Page 86 [In India<nowiki>]</nowiki>] ''A Memoir of Major-General Sir R.R. Gillespie'' [by William Thorn] 1816 Google Books. On 7 May 1805 Gillespie exchanged into the [[19th Lancers|Nineteenth Light Dragoons]], then in India, to where he proceeded overland from England. The Nineteenth Light Dragoons being ordered to Europe, Gillespie, on 16 April 1807 exchanged into the [[8th (The King's Royal Irish) Hussars|8th Royal Irish Light Dragoons]] and saw service in the Punjab (page 108); on 5 January 1809 he exchanged into the Twenty-fifth Light Dragoons (page 111) where he appears to have remained until 1811 when subsequently he commanded the First Division in the [[Java Expedition]] of 1811 (page 120).
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