Pensioner Guards

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Pensioner Guards
Active 1850-c.1900[1]

The Pensioner Guards were English military pensioners who served on convict transportation ships en route to the Swan River Colony between 1850 and 1868, and were given employment and grants of land on arrival.[2]

After 1880 they were known as the Enrolled Guards.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 State Library of Western Australia. "Pensioner Guards". Retrieved 17 August 2013. 
  2. ↑ "Enrolled Pensioner Guards — Western Australia". Retrieved 17 August 2013. 



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