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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: Winterbloom21 on Wednesday 08 June 22 17:07 BST (UK)
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I'm looking for some information on the above military Company, which I can't find anywhere on line. I know that French POWs were sometimes pressed into English Regiments. Is this what it was?
I'm researching a trial that went to the Hampshire Assizes in Lent 1814, where three Revenue officers were accused of killing a French soldier, one Private Pierre Lapuy, in a fight in Lymington. He was described as being attached to the above Company, on duty at Hurst Castle.
From what I can see, Hurst Castle was being used as a military hospital during this period, for soldiers returning from the Peninsular War. It may be that Private Lapuy was a POW, and a patient at the hospital, rather than 'on duty', as it said in the paper. If so, he would seem to have been on the road to recovery as the fight in which he was killed took place, allegedly, in a brothel in Woodside, Lymington.
I'm interested in any further information about this one as I think that one of the prisoners, who was acquitted, was possibly my gggg grandfather.
Thanks.
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See https://www.jstor.org/stable/44230742
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Excellent! Thanks you very much ShaunJ. Sadly, it doesn't mention the murder, or what he was doing at Hurst Castle, but it does give a really good picture of who they were and what they were about. Thanks very much. S