Thanks one and all thus far, invaluable information.
here is a rough timeline that i am hoping to proove or disproove, either way.
1779 Samuel Green born Bliston, Staffordshire to Richard (1750) & Mary (1750)
1793 Samuel Green Aged 15/16 enlistment to ?
1794 HMS Excellent - Captain Cuthbert Collingwood
14th June Service number – 591
1795
1796
1797 HMS Excellent - Captain Cuthbert Collingwood
14th June Service number – 591
Battle of Copenhagen under Sir John Jervis
1797
1798
1799
Recruitment into Coote-Manningham’s 95th Rifle Corps by selection or recomendation
Baker Rifles, patent 1 1800 sword bayonet, green jackets,,,,sharpe but sea based sharpe.
1800 1st April Coote-Manningham’s, 95th Rifles, 9th Battalion are first paraded @ Horsham Barracks, issued with Baker Rifle Mk1 and Patent 1/1800 bayonets,
Distinctive by the “D” shaped knuckle guard and hooked quillion.
1800 – 1802 Further Commission for extra Baker Rifle Mk2 & Patent 1 / 1801 issued which incorporated design changes to the Sword locking mechanism and Sword Bayonet, cutting edges & the false edge and I believe a straight quillion.
1803¬ Sir John Moore incorporates other regiments into the 95 Rifles to form the Rifle Brigade. Consignments of the Baker Rifle increase into the thousands and Wooley and Deakin add Dutton to their name. Further design changes incorporating the D-shape knuckle guard and straight quillion are present on the Patent 2 Sword Bayonets. Shorncliffe Redoubt in use and Riflemen are trained the “Shorncliffe way”
1803 @ Copenhagen Nelson in Charge of Sharpshooters, Samuel Green (born abt.1779) 95th Rifles served at Copenhagen.
there is another samuel green on HMS Naiad under dundas, if he is a rifleman then it would stand to reason that when dundas met nelson belfore the battle, perhaps he moved aboud then and was entered into the ships books ? HMS Naid takes no further part in the battle.
1805 HMS Victory ships muster - Samuel Green 95 rifles. or not hmm
there is a smuel green died buried in willenhall, about two miles from bliston. he was buried in late 1805 not sure if victory was back by then after putting in at gibraltar after the battle. another one to check.
thanks again
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25-10-2019, 10:35 PM #11
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samuel green 1779
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01-01-2020, 8:45 PM #12
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02-01-2020, 7:22 PM #13
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Hi there ris1972
Thats a cool thing to have there, fraid my chap expires sometime before 1805. Do you know anything else about youe Samuel, was he Army, Navy or Marine kinda thing...?
thanks for the interest anyhow....xxxLast edited by sqWarkbox; 02-01-2020 at 7:23 PM. Reason: i have a new keyboard and to conclude
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28-07-2020, 1:07 AM #14
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hello one and all
Posting an update to this thread,
I think that I have finally solved my riddle,
The problem I had was trying to connect john yule to the Experimental Corps of Riflemen and connect, wha I thought was my man Samuel Green. In light of new evidence I have located I now think my chap was not Samuel Green, but John Clarke born 1777 in Branscombe Devon, where John Yule and William Carslake lived. I was about to check in John Clarke service records in archives before lockdown but think he originally drafted to the 1st Foot and the to the Experimental Corps in 1800, henceforth serving at Ferrol and Copenhagen. As stated in Dr Colin Whites, "Nelson New Letters", John Yule also served with Nelson at Copenhagen as well as Trafalgar.
This now joins my dots, Just need life to get back to normal to check everthing.
unless anyone can suggest otherwise.
many thanks for the inputs....xxx
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