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On 4 May 1817, the second battalion the 73rd Regiment of Foot was assembled in Chelmsford in Essex for its final parade, as the battalion had received orders to be disbanded. While some men were selected for the regiment’s first battalion, then stationed in Ceylon, the rest were to be discharged. Alongside these purely functional matters, this parade was also a symbolic and emotional moment. One of the soldiers in the ranks on that day, Thomas Morris, who joined the 2/73rd in 1812, recounted that moment:
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Linch, K. (2011). Introduction. In: Britain and Wellington’s Army. War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230316751_1
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