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SX4455 : Warships moored at Devonport Dockyard Devonport Dockyard

In 1804, this place (or very nearby) was called Plymouth Dock(s). My then teenaged 3xgr-grandfather began his service as a Gunner in the Royal Artillery here, in the W Spicer Company. Recruited at Truro, originating in the remotest part of Cornwall (St Breward parish includes Brown Willy), he did not see his home county again until after 1834. His months here were a time of fortification by Lord Mount Edgecumbe, preparing for possible invasion by Bonaparte. J Brome soon took command of the Spicer Co, and would see this RA Company through to Waterloo. Interesting to see this place still serves the military.

Uniform of the time.