21st Light Dragoons?

[Deb D]

Rather belatedly (been working on other lines  ), I've come to wonder about the 21st Light Dragoons, from which my 3xgt grandfather James Dixon transferred to the 4th Light Dragoons sometime around 1818-20.  Would anyone know where I could find info on the subject?

[liverpool annie]

Do you have him here Deb ? can't remember if we've done him before !! 

JAMES DIXON - 4th Light Dragoons

Died - 10 04 1827 (Recorded as John not James)

http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/4ths/dragoonde/dixon5.html

[Deb D]

Hi Annie,

Yes, we've looked for him before - but that particular James isn't my fellow.  Mine was the officer, and he and his wife returned to England in 1827, where they produced another three children before his wife died ... he then went on to be a Superintendant of Docks Police (suspicions about "Dixon of Dock Green" LOL), before dying in 1858.

Frustrating, that there seem to be so many James Dixons attached to the 4th LDs!!!

Cheers and thanks anyway

Deb

[Kevin Linch]

Quick service record of the 21st Light Dragoons:

Ireland from 1803 to 10 April 1804
England: arrived: April 1804; departed at Portsmouth: 16 May 1806
Cape of Good Hope: arrived: 6 August 1806; departed 27 August 1806
2 troops went to South America: arrived at Monte Video 16 January 1807; departed 28 July 1807
2 troops returned to Cape of Good Hope on 5 September 1807
The regiment left for Bengal on 18 and 19 July 1817 and arrived thre on 10 Sept 1817
Departed for England in October and November 1819; arrived at Gravesend on 13 April and 31 May.
Disbanded at Chatham in May and June 1820

(This is all from WO 380/2 in the National Archives).
You can find out if any officer was actually with the regiment through WO 17:
Before 1813: WO 17/48 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C600925
After 1813 it would need going through each year's box to find the 21st Light Dragoons https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C89834