Guide to the records of the South Staffordshire Regiment (80th Regiment) relating to Australia and New Zealand (as filmed by the AJCP)

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M815

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: 2019

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Digest of the 80th Regiment: Volume 1, 1793 - 1897 (File 1)

(259pp.)...

Digest of the 80th Regiment: Volume 2, 1793 - 1899 (File 2)

This volume appears to be a slightly updated copy of the first digest. The account of the service of the Regiment in Australia is identical with that in the first volume.

Nominal and descriptive roll of the 80th Regiment, 1804 - 1881 (File 3)

Arranged by date of enlistment, from 1804 to 1881, the roll gives the name of every soldier in the Regiment, his age at the time of enlistment, height at the time of enlistment, previous occupation and place of birth. The final remarks column, which is not always legible, gives the date of death or discharge. There are other columns for religion and physical description, but they were seldom used until about 1855.

Record of stations, 1793 - 1905 (File 4)

The volume records the arrival and departure dates of the 80th Regiment at each station from its formation in 1793 until 1905 (by which time it was the 2nd Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment)...

Miscellaneous, 24 July 1853 - 31 May 1859 (File 5)

Contains:Letter from Major R.H.W. Fowler (Melbourne) to Commanding officer, North Staffordshire Regiment, 24 July 1853: sends an old letter discovered in a creek at Warrandyte, Victoria. (copy)...


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