Pt 1: Royal Marines |
1788–1791 |
4 companies |
Sydney; Norfolk Island |
1803–1812 |
a company [?] |
Port Phillip; VDL |
1824–1829 |
1 detachment |
Melville Island |
1836–1839 |
1 detachment |
Adelaide |
1837–1854 |
1 detachment |
Port Essington |
1862–1870 |
1 detachment |
Cape York |
Part 2: Regiments of foot [infantry] |
1810–1815 |
1/73rd [1st Battalion Royal Highland] |
Sydney; Newcastle; VDL |
from Yarmouth; to Ceylon |
1814–1818 |
1/46th [South Devonshire] |
Sydney; Newcastle; VDL |
from Cowes; to Madras |
1817–1824 |
1/48th [Northamptonshire] |
Sydney; Newcastle; VDL |
from Dublin; to Madras |
1821–1828 |
1/3rd [East Kent—The Buffs] |
Sydney; Hobart; Pt Dalrymple; Parramatta; Liverpool;
Newcastle; Pt Macquarie; Botany Bay; Bathurst |
from England; all separate detachments while in
AUS; reunited in 1828 at Calcutta |
1824–1829 |
2/40th [2nd Somersetshire] |
Sydney; VDL |
from England/Ireland as 16 detachments of convict
guards; to India |
1852–1860 |
Sydney; VDL; VIC Goldfields; Adelaide |
from Cork; 1 officer & 5 men killed at Eureka; to
NZ |
1825/8–1831 |
1/57th [West Middlesex] |
Sydney; Moreton Bay; Melville Island; Norfolk Island; Hobart |
from England as 15 detachments of convict guards;
to Madras |
1825/7–1832 |
1/39th [Dorsetshire] |
Sydney; King George Sound; VDL; Bathurst; Port Macquarie |
from England; Charles Sturt was an officer; late
in 1826 Maj Edmund Lockyer with a detachment and a
party of convicts eastbalished the King George Sound
penal colony; to Bangalore |
1829–1833 |
1/63rd [West Suffolk] |
Sydney; VDL; Swan River |
from England/Ireland as 17 detachments of convict
guards; to Madras |
1829/35–1836 |
1/17th [Leicestershire] |
Sydney; VDL |
from England/Ireland as 48 detachments of convict
guards; to Bombay |
1829/33–1837 |
1/4th [Lancaster—King's Own] |
Sydney; Parramatta Hobart; Norfolk Island; Cox's
River; Emu Plains; Newcastle; Port Macquarie; Bathurst;
Maitland; Windsor; Bong Bong; Mount Vittoria |
from Chatham; to Madras |
1830/4–1832/41 |
1/50th [West Kent] |
Sydney; VDL; Norfolk Island |
from England/Ireland as 13 detachments of convict
guards; to India (Coorg campaign) |
1866–1869 |
Sydney; Adelaide |
from Ireland; to Bengal |
1832–1839 |
1/21st [North British Fusiliers] |
Hobart; Swan River |
from London (Lord Lyndoch); to Calcutta |
1835/42–1842 |
1/28th [North Gloucestershire] |
Sydney; Brisbane |
from Chatham as numerous detachments (23 as convict
guards); to Bombay and Scinde |
1834/40–1844 |
1/80th [Staffordshire Volunteers] |
NSW; Norfolk Island |
from England/Ireland as 16 detachments of convict
guards; operated as 17 detachments; to India |
1838 –1846 |
2/51st [2nd Yorkshire West Riding Light Infantry] |
VDL; Swan River; King George Sound |
from Gravesend; to Bengal |
1839/41–1849 |
1/96th [Manchester] |
Sydney; Windsor; Hobart; Parramatta; Launceston;
NZ Adelaide |
from London and Dublin; broken into 26 detachments;
to India |
1843–1856 |
1/99th [Wiltshire—Duke of Edinburgh |
VDL; Sydney; Hobart; Adelaide |
from Chatham as 3 detachments of convict guards;
to NZ |
1844–1847 |
1/58th [Rutlandshire] |
Sydney |
from England/Ireland as 19 detachments of convict
guards; to NZ |
1845–1857 |
1/11th [North Devonshire] |
Sydney; Hobart; Adelaide |
from Chatham; to England |
1846–1865 |
2/65th [2nd Yorkshire West Riding] |
Sydney |
from Kingston/Dublin (Samuel Boddington);
to NZ |
1854–1860/6 |
1/12th [East Suffolk] |
Sydney; Melbourne; Adelaide, Brisbane |
from Cork; at Eureka; to NZ |
1857–1858 |
1/77th [East Middlesex] |
Sydney |
from Ireland; to India to quell sepoy mutiny |
1866–1870 |
2/14th [2nd Battalion Buckinghamshire] |
Melbourne; Hobart; Adelaide; Perth;
Fremantle; Sydney |
from NZ; to England |
1870 |
1/18th [Irish] |
Sydney |
from NZ; to England |
Part 4: Artillery
Some detachments of the Royal Artillery Regiment served
in Aus from 1856–1870 |
18431846 |
No 2 Coy 6th Battalion |
Sydney |
— |
1856–1865 |
No 3 Coy 7th Battalion
(3 Coy 12th Brigade from Jul 1859) |
Sydney |
— |
1861–1868 |
No 1 Battery 15th Brigade |
Melbourne |
— |
1868–1870 |
No 1 Battery 1st Brigade |
Sydney |
— |
Part 5: Engineers
Various corps served in every colony |
Part 6: Other Corps
Commissariat Department
Ordnance Corps
Medical Corps
Chaplains Department
Pay Corps |