Great link, Edna, for the 28th North Gloucestershire Regiment. Having researched a ancestor who served in the British Army, I thought I should mention that regiments enlisted far and wide so it's never safe to assume someone served in his 'local' regiment or that the North Gloucestershire regiment would be entirely made up of young men from that area. Colonels would lead recruiting parties who marched through various towns and villages all over Britain signing up young men wherever they went. My George Joseph SHEPPARD, a born and bred Bristol lad, joined the 99th [Larnarkshire] Regiment who must have been recruiting in the Bristol area in 1846. Jenny W [Brisbane]