Hello Deb, Thank you for your reply and such good advice. The URL's have given me a lot of information to follow up. Gratefully, Marje > Hi Marje, > > It may pay to ask on the UK-MILITARY list. Mike Shingleton on that list > is > very knowledgeable & helpful. He is a respected military researcher & is > very familiar with the WO records at TNA & other resources. > He also does paid military research, his website being > http://www.resthepast.co.uk/ > > There is some interesting info at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_forces_of_Australia which helps to > explain why he might have been in different places. > > Bob Marmion has done a thesis "The Victorian Volunteer Force on the > Central > Victorian Goldfields 1858-1883". > There is some interesting information about why he would have been > instructing in Victoria (eg on page 23 - Ch 1). > http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/thesis/public/adt-LTU20050430.150445/index.html > You may find some good references in his Bibliography and there are some > photos of volunteer corps (possibly men he would have trained). > > Hope this helps a little. > > Cheers, > Deb. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marjedawn_1" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 5:50 AM > Subject: Re: [HV] British Volunteer Army 19th Century > > >> >> Hello Ray, >> >> Thank you for your reply and the website of the TNA. >> >> However I was not able to find a result when I searched for James Brown - >> any suggestions please? >> >> regards >> Marje >> > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message