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==Recruitment and conditions==
According to statistical analysis of the Depot Lists and Embarkation Lists of recruits going to India by FIBIS Chairman, Peter Bailey, six percent of soldiers were consistently recruited as married. One of his ancestors joined the EIC Army at nearly the same time that his daughter was born and was sent to India several weeks later with his wife and new-born baby c mid 1820s. Although the East India Company provided a passage back to Britain for soldiers at the expiration of their term of service it appears that very few elected to return.<ref> Email from Peter Bailey to [[User:Maureene|Maureen Evers]] dated 10 April 2014 </ref> Samuel Hickson, who was in India 1777-1785, lists the reasons for this in his Diary as disease, the good provisions made by the Company relating to age and incapacity, the bounty paid on renewal of service and family ties.<ref> "Diary of Samuel Hickson 1777-1785" in Bengal Past and Present, Volume 49, Part 1 1935, pages 28-30 (computer pages 35-37) which is available to read online on the Digital Library of India website.</ref>
==Europeans in Native Regiments==
The officers of Native Regiments were European
Mostly a European soldier would be in a European Regiment. However at times a European soldier could be in a role such as Quartermaster Sergeant in a Native Infantry Regiment <ref>Rootsweb India Message Board post [http://boards.ancestry.com.au/localities.asia.india.general/2869.1.1.3/mb.ashx Siege of Cawnpore 1857] by Melanie Cutts 17 May 2014 (retrieved 18 May 2014)</ref>
== FIBIS resources ==
The [[National Army Museum]], London has a card index, mainly in respect of East India Company Army Officers
==The difference between rank in the Regiment and rank in the Army==
All officers held dual rank, that is, rank in their regiment and rank in the Army. Their rank in their regiment dictated what they did on a day-to-day basis. The HEIC regiments did not have the purchase system [for rank in the regiment] but based promotions on seniority within the regiment which was one reason why the timing of an officer's rank within the regiment was important. When an officer held a rank in the Army for a period longer than his rank in his regiment this was probably due to him not having actually been posted to his regiment for a period when he was first commissioned<ref>Rootsweb India List reply [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2009-08/1251599449 Rank in regiment; rank in army] by Tim 30 August 2009 (retrieved 14 April 2014)</ref>
*[[Regiments]]
*[[Auxillary Regiments]]
*[[Unattached List]]
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