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Title: 89th Regiment
Post by: sylvia1964 on Saturday 29 December 07 19:59 GMT (UK)

Hi , has anyone any info on this regiment. My gggg great grandfather was a sarjeant with them in 1804. Are there any records available ? and where would they be held.
many thanks  Sylvia

Title: Re: 89th Regiment
Post by: scrimnet on Saturday 29 December 07 20:16 GMT (UK)

I'd start here....

http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/089-793.htm

Title: Re: 89th Regiment
Post by: km1971 on Sunday 30 December 07 07:42 GMT (UK)

Hi Sylvia

If you search for his name here - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp?j=1 - putting "WO97" in the series box, you will discover if his records are on microfilm at Kew. If so you can order copies from them.

If he does not appear the only remaining records are the Muster and Pay Books (in WO12), but I am unsure if they go back that far. See also - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/militaryhistory/army/step4.htm

If his regiment was in the Napoleonic War, or at Waterloo, you could post his name requesting a lookup in the medal rolls. But to get a medal for the Napoleonic Wars - which included Canada and the Caribbean as well as the Peninsular - he would have had to be alive in the late 1840s and submit a claim.

Ken

Title: Re: 89th Regiment
Post by: sylvia1964 on Tuesday 08 January 08 23:06 GMT (UK)

Thank you Scrimnet and KM 1971,

Sorry I've took so long to reply , first time I 've checked my mail this year , I am away to check these sites now
Regards Sylvia