The 42nd (Royal Highland) Foot

The Black Watch The second part of this look at Pack's Brigade, this week the veterans of Egypt, Corunna, and all of the Peninsula War.If you enjoyed this episode, you can support the podcast for the price of a cup of coffee at https://buymeacoffee.com/waterloopodcastContact: [email protected] thanks to Jonathan Durbin, Ronnie Proctor, Graham Leadbitter, John Haldane, Diogo Vasconcellos, Nicholas Fawbert, Marcus Roche, and Andrew BaillieA footnote to this episode is a caveat that much of the data for the 42nd Foot in this period is an almighty mess. The enlistment dates on most WO97 and WO119 (discharge) documents do not match the enlistment dates on the Supplementary Roll for Waterloo Men on the WO112. This, I'm fairly certain, is due to the WO25 description book for the regiment being written in almost microscopically small handwriting across two huge ledge pages. Thus, even in the day, clerks were struggling with the sheer number of errors, and many documents have pencil corrections and notes, trying, even then, to sort out which Donald Ross (of the eight in the regiment) was a labourer from Inverness and which was a labourer from Forfar etc. ad nauseum. I was going to include an explanation and cathartic rant about this in the episode but decided it would probably be very dull for most viewers so cut it from the final edit. Anyway, it's something for me to work on in my retirement - to try to finally go through everything again and try to make sense of it all! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.