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created 15 July 2003. Corrected and updated
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1st Royal Veteran
Battalion
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| 1795 | The Royal
Garrison Battalion raised from men no longer fit for active service |
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| 1802 | disbanded at Fort Cumberland | |
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| 1802.12.25 | 1st Royal
Garrison Battalion raised at Portsmouth from various Corps of Invalids in the UK, with no lineal connection to predecessor |
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| 1804.07.09 | 1st Royal Veteran Battalion | |
| 1814.07.30 | disbanded at Harwich | |
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| 1815.08.08 | 1st Royal
Veteran Battalion re-formed at Plymouth from out-pensioners under 55 years who had served less than 24 years in the cavalry or 21 years in the infantry, and who had been discharged as privates |
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| 1816.05.31 | disbanded at Plymouth | |
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| 1819.11.25 | 1st Royal
Veteran Battalion re-formed at Chatham from out-pensioners to curb political unrest |
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| 1821.06.23 | disbanded at Chelsea | |
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| 1821.12.25 | 1st Royal
Veteran Battalion re-formed at Naas |
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| 1826.04.24 | disbanded at Athlone | |
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| 1802 | disbanded at Fort Cumberland | ||||||
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| 1802.12 | raised at Portsmouth | ||||||
| 1803 | England | ||||||
| 1805.05 | Gibraltar | ||||||
| 1810.04 | at sea | ||||||
| 1810.06 | England: Felixstowe (Landguard Fort) | ||||||
| 1813.12 | Netherlands | ||||||
| 1814.06 | England | ||||||
| 1814.07.12 | disbanded at Harwich | ||||||
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| 1815.08.08 | raised at Plymouth | ||||||
| 1815 | England: Plymouth | ||||||
| 1816.05.31 | disbanded at Plymouth | ||||||
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| 1821.12.25 | raised at Naas | ||||||
| 1822.02 | Ireland: Cork | ||||||
| 1824.02 | Galway | ||||||
| 1826.04.24 | disbanded at Athlone | ||||||
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| 1795 | Maj-Gen. Robert Mason Lewis | |
| 1800 | Lt-Gen. Robert Lumsdaine | |
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| 1802.12.25 | Gen. William Edmeston | |
| 1804.06.30 | Gen. James Stewart | |
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| 1815 | none appointed | |
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| 1819.11.01 | Sir Archibald Christie | |
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| 1821.12.25 | Maj-Gen. R. Kelso | |
| 1823.10.16 | Maj-Gen. Hon. Henry King, CB | |
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