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GEORGE I Military commission signed("George R" at head"), appointing Richard Eagan "Ensign of a Company of Invalids to be formed of the Our Pentioners of Our Royal Hospital near Chelsea under the Command of Our Trusty and Wellbeloved John Carwarden", St James's, 3 April 1719
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GEORGE I
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ʻOUR ROYAL HOSPITAL NEAR CHELSEA'. Chelsea Hospital had been founded by Charles II in 1682, and was organized on military lines, with the pensioners being assigned to companies. Veterans were divided into in-pensioners (those resident at the Hospital) and out-pensioners, for whom there was not room at the newly-constructed Hospital: at this stage the latter were in the minority, although over the ensuing centuries they were to become the great majority, since the Hospital had the responsibility for distributing all such pensions (numbering about fifty out-pensioners at the start of the eighteenth century and rising to over 36,000 by 1815). One such company of invalids, raised that March under Edmund Fielding, was to become the 41st (Welch) Regiment of Foot.





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