JHG Service record help please

[davidft]

Could someone please decipher the attached record extract.

What I have so far is

50Th Foot         22 years      old age and asthma
South Devon militia     14 years   
?         2 years                    ?   
2. ?                   2 years 7 months
Total 40 years 7 months

(If it helps the end of the period is in 1805)

[SWar]

Looks like -
Late invalid - 2 years

I am sure that can't be right

Sue

[davidft]

Looks like -
Late invalid - 2 years

I am sure that can't be right

Sue

No don't think so as they would have invalided him out rather than ley him serve a further 2 years 7 months somewhere else. (The discharge papers 1805 do not say he is an invalid)

[Bookbox]

Late Invalids - 2 years
2nd Royal Veteran Battalion - 2 years & 7 months

So-called 'Invalid Regiments' were formed from men previously invalided out of the war but fit for light duties such as keeping a garrison etc.

This link has information on the Royal Veteran Battalions.
http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/Britain/Infantry/Regiments/c_Veterans.html

Googling will give you more.

[davidft]

Thank you Bookbox that is very helpful and makes sense.

Thank you SWar, you were on the right track after all ( I don't know a lot about military records)


Much appreciated

[veeblevort]

The rest of it looks like

B H Armstrong
Surge(o)n
2^d R V Battalion


vv.

[davidft]

Thank you veeblevort, I now have an address to write to possibly seek more information so fingers crossed