29,555
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
There are India Office Records at the British Library [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
*[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.
*[http://archive.org/stream/tenyearsinsouth00westgoog#page/n96/mode/2up "The East India Campaign"], page 70 ''Ten years in South Africa. Only complete and authentic history of the British German Legion in South Africa and the East Indies. From the memoirs of Wm. Westphal'' 1892 Archive.org. The Jager Corps in India.
Transferring some info to Jager Corps
*'''1907''' [[Dalhousie]]
==Jager (Jaeger (Jager) Corps==In 1860 the 109th Regiment of Foot in India was joined by more than 500 men of the Jager (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]. The Jager (Jaeger) Corps had its origin in the German Legion sent to the Crimea, which was then resettled in South Africa according to this Victorian Wars Forum At least for a time, the Jager Corps remained as a separate entity within the 109th Regiment. For more details, see [[Jager Corps]] There are India Office Records at the British Library *[http://www.victorianwarsnationalarchives.gov.comuk/a2a/viewtopicrecords.phpaspx?fcat=82059-iorlmil_8-1&tcid=18831-3-12#p7695 post1-3-12 British Army in India: Nominal and Casualty Rolls of Jager Corps Volunteers '''IOR/L/MIL/15/31-36'''] by Mark Simner 1860-1866. Includes troops serving with the 109th Regiment of Foot.*[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 July 2009/283''']. 1859-1861. The soldiers’ names are listed and the regiment is given as 3rd ER (JC)
== External Links ==
**[http://www.leinster-regiment-association.org.uk/history/19th/1863-1881.htm 1863-1881]
*[http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/searchresults.asp?mode=reg®iment=3rd%20Bombay%20European%20Regiment 3rd Bombay (European) Regiment Mutiny Memorials, Jhansi] - Indian-cemeteries.org. Images of memorials with 71 names of those who fell in the 1857 uprising.
===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZrQIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA774 Officers in HM’s 109th Regiment], page 774 from ''The Bombay Miscellany Volume 4, May to October 1862'' Google Books
*The author joins the 109th Regiment c 1863 [http://archive.org/stream/orientalcampaign00maudiala#page/250/mode/2up/ Page 250] ''Oriental campaigns and European furloughs:the autobiography of a veteran of the Indian Mutiny'' by Colonel E. Maude. 1908 Archive.org. His account includes some information about the Jager Corps.
[[Category:Bombay Infantry Regiments]]