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Field officer’s coatee, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lloyd, Leeds Volunteers, 1795 (c)
coatee, coatee
Accession Number

NAM.1977-12-35-1

Description

Coatee, field officers’, Leeds Volunteers (West Riding, Yorkshire), worn by Lt Col Thomas Lloyd, 1795 (c). Scarlet with blue facings. Thomas Lloyd (1751-1828), a Leeds cloth merchant from Horsforth Hall, commanded the Leeds Volunteers from when the regiment was raised in 1794 until the conclusion of hostilities against France in 1802, when it was disbanded. In 1803, war broke out with France again and a corps of Volunteers was raised again, with Thomas Lloyd once more assuming command. A force of 1,400 was equipped and trained to meet the threatened invasion of England. Although on a war footing from 1804, they mostly carried out fire-fighting duties. In 1805 Lloyd resigned his command, owing to ill health.

Campaigns

Napoleonic Wars, Home Defence (1803-1815)

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