papers
Accession Number
NAM.1968-07-370
Description
Inventory description: Papers (51 items) relating to the presence of the British Army in South Africa (1899-1901), Ireland (1795-1800), and St Helena (1820), comprising printed proclamations and notices, handbills, correspondence, recruiting posters, and obituaries, and including commissions issued between 1760 and 1827 to officers of the Highland Volunteers and Londonderry Legion regiments, among others, and also issued to Major General Nugent as Deputy Master of the Royal Hospital Chelsea (1800) and for his commands in India (1803-1813); the disturbances in the Army in Ireland (1795-1800), and Wellington’s funeral (1852).
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