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The Regiment was raised from out-pensioners
of the Royal Hospital Chelsea for garrison duty at home. Known
originally as 'Colonel Edmund Fielding's Regiment of Invalids',
its Colonel was, like many of the pensioners, a veteran of
Marlborough's wars. Many were partially disabled, but all
were considered capable of performing the duties required
of a soldier in garrison. On 1st July 1751, the Regiment was
numbered 41st and redesignated as the 41st Foot (or Invalids).
Its service was confined mainly to the Portsmouth garrison,
with detachments at Plymouth and on the Island of Jersey.
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