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==British Library records==
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-1&cid=1-3-12#1-3-12 British Army in India: Nominal and Casualty Rolls of Jager Corps Volunteers '''IOR/L/MIL/15/31-36'''] 1860-1866. Includes troops serving with the 109th Regiment of Foot.These records are also available on LDS microfilms [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/775056?availability=Family%20History%20Library 2030019-20] ([[FamilySearch Centres#Ordering microfilms|Ordering microfilms]])
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_7-2&cid=1-1-9-3#1-1-9-3 Discharge papers, Jager Corps '''IOR/L/MIL/12/283''']. 1859-1861. The soldiers’ names are listed and the regiment is given as 3rd ER (JC)
==Also see==
*[[3rd Bombay (European) Regiment]], later the 109th Regiment of Foot.
==Subsequently==
Some of the men from the Jager Corps ended up with the [[33rd Regiment of Foot]] in the [[Abyssinian Campaign]] of 1867-8.<ref>References quoted in [http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol134es.html "'When I was in Poona!' The German Volunteer Battalion in India"]</ref> The 33rd Foot was in India when the expedition to Abyssinia was organised, and had been there since 1857, so it seems very likely these men had transferred from the [[3rd Bombay (European) Regiment|109th Regiment]], possibly to take part in the campaign.
==External links==
:[http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol134es.html "Part 3 of 3: 'When I was in Poona!' The German Volunteer Battalion in India"] Vol 13 No 4 December 2005
:(Earlier parts:[http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol132ej.html "Part 1: 'By Her Majesty's Command' - Ensign Simner's Commission"] Vol 13 No 2 December 2004, [http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol133ej.html "Part 2: 'A New Life' - Military Settlers in Kaffraria"] Vol 13 No 3 June 2005)
*Victorian Wars Forum [https://web.archive.org/web/20130709083939/http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=1883#p7695 post] , now archived, by Mark Simner dated 12 July 2009 about the history of his ancestor in the British German Legion.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20091108022740/http://stutterheim.eci.co.za/legion.htm The British-German Legion] stutterheim.eci.co.za, an archived website. The origins of the Jager Corps.
*"Sir George Grey and the 1857 Indian Rebellion: the unmaking and making of an imperial career" by Jill Bender Boston College. [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:ONuhZjsNUFUJ:www.csas.ed.ac.uk/mutiny/confpapers/BENDER-paper.pdf+%22German+Legion%22+%22Indian+Mutiny%22&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgTFLnoQB66WmYCvfaVq_YCL_25E9gvPQCyRbTrDV9GfJbtjJac7lhvaXHgVaW77SVZyZ3NCQOX2PhwW6dKfrSlJhJ_RYO1CI01DFaQ6-nzTl0x2FF6JyM_fk2pskjajjPgzpOp&sig=AHIEtbRtFrlTpCiTFIphGVVZxjYBuZHfMA html version], [http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/mutiny/confpapers/BENDER-paper.pdf pdf] A paper presented at [http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/mutiny/Conference.html Mutiny at the Margins New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857], Conference at the University of Edinburgh, George Square, Edinburgh, July 23rd-26th 2007.*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.
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