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Robert Parker

Ensign in 76th Foot by purchase 10 November 1808. War Office announcement 12 November 1808 in London Gazette 8-12 November 1808. Unlikely he went to the Peninsula and served at Corunna.

Lieutenant in 76th Foot without purchase 8 July 1809. War Office announcement 8 July 1809. London Gazette 4-8 July 1809.

Served in the Walcheren campaign and died age 19 years at Middleburg 2 September 1809 and buried there. [Bromley, Wellington’s Men Remembered Volume 2]

In the London Gazette for 19-23 September 1809 is the War Office announcement of 23 September that an ensign of the regiment was promoted lieutenant vice Parker deceased.

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