17th Leicestershire Regiment 1830-1836.
Green Tigers
The Colonial Lilywhites
1688 Raised as Colonel Richard's Regiment.
1751 Designated 17th Regiment.
1757-1766 N America and W Indies.
1767-1775 England.
1782 Titled 17th. (The Leicestershire)Regiment.
1775-1785 N America.
1786-1793 England., Ireland, service as Marines.
1794-1798 W Indies.
1799 England.
1800-1801 Mediterranean.
1801-1804 Ireland.
1805-1823 India.
1823-1830 England.
In New South Wales
2 March 1830 First det disembarked Port Jackson.
8 February 1831 HQ arrived, located initially at Parramatta.
17 March HQ moves to Sydney.
26 March 1831 Last Det arrives.
March 1831 Detachment to Moreton Bay, relieving
Detachment 57th Regt.
June 1833 Detachments at Van Diemens Land, Moreton Bay,
Cox's River, Emu Plains, Newcastle, Port
Macquarie, Bathurst, Windsor, Liverpool, Port
Stephens, Bung Bong, Wellington Valley,
Longbottom, Mounted Police.
1834 Road-making ironed gangs supervised by
officers in charge of guard detachments
because of unsatisfactory performance by
Convict Superintendents.
December 1835 Detachment relieved at Moreton by 4th Regt.
4 March 1836 HQ embarked for India, relieved by 28th Regt.
11 October 1836 Last detachment embarked Sydney.
References Lt-Colonel E A H Webb, A History of the Services of The 17th (The Leicestershire Leicestershire (lĕs`tərshĭr), county (1991 pop. 860,500), 832 sq mi (2,155 sq km), central England. The county seat is Leicester. ) Regiment regiment In most armies, a body of troops headed by a colonel and divided into companies, battalions, or squadrons. French cavalry units were called regiments as early as 1558. In early U.S. , London London, city, Canada London, city (1991 pop. 303,165), SE Ont., Canada, on the Thames River. The site was chosen in 1792 by Governor Simcoe to be the capital of Upper Canada, but York was made capital instead. London was settled in 1826. , 1911. David Murphy
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