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*[[Hanoverian Regiments|Hanoverians]] are mentioned in this [http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor06canngoog#page/n43/mode/1up link] (Archives.org) in 1783.
*In 1860 the [[3rd Bombay (European) Regiment]], later the 109th Regiment of Foot in India was joined by over 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. The Jager (Jaeger) Corps had its origin in the German Legion sent to the Crimea, which was then resettled in South Africa, although some of the men were not German. For more details, see [[Jager Corps]]
linked to Hanoverian and Jager Corps pages
==Also see==
*[[POW Camps in India]] for details of POW and Internment camps during the First and Second World War.
*[[Hanoverian Regiments]]
*[[Jager Corps]]
==External Links==
*The Wurttemberg Regiment’s German name was the Württembergisches Kapregiment or Cape Regiment [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapregiment Kapregiment] Wikipedia written in German and associated [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:W%C3%BCrttembergisches_Kapregiment Wikimedia].
*A [http://www.weeklyvoice.com/headlines/napoleons-soldiers-in-maharaja-ranjit-singhs-army review] of the book ''The Lion’s Firanghis: Europeans at the Court of Lahore'' by Bobby Singh Bansal 2010 "By the 1830s a multifarious array of [[French]], Prussian, Spanish, [[Dutch]] and Italian officers had descended on the Anglo-Punjab frontier, hoping to enlist in the services of the opportunistic Maharajah…"
*British Library Blog Untold Lives:[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2011/10/index.html Missionaries and madams] 31 October 2011 and [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2011/11/unfortunate-women.html 'Unfortunate' women] 7 November 2011. Repatriation of Germans and Austrians during World War 1
