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A Chelsea Pensioner, or In-Pensioner, is a resident at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, an Old Soldiers' retirement home and nursing home for former members of the British Army located in Chelsea, London. The Royal Hospital Chelsea is home to 300 retired British soldiers, male and female (the latter since 2009), and is located on Royal Hospital Road .
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A Chelsea pensioner of the era. The corps played a vital role in regulating the manpower requirements of the British Army, increasing or decreasing in size as the need arose. [1]: 7 New companies of the corps were raised by carrying out medical examinations of the out-pensioners to determines those who were fit for garrison service.
A Serious Case of the Blues: Chelsea in the 80s. Vision Sports Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-905326-02-5. Cheshire, Scott (1998). Chelsea: an Illustrated History. Breedon Books. ISBN 1-85983-143-5. Glanvill, Rick (2005). Chelsea FC: The Official Biography – The Definitive Story of the First 100 Years. Headline Book Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7553-1465-4.
Figure Court of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. The Royal Hospital Chelsea is an Old Soldiers' retirement home and nursing home for some 300 veterans of the British Army.Founded as an almshouse — the ancient sense of the word "hospital" — by King Charles II in 1682, it is a 66-acre (27 ha) site located on Royal Hospital Road in Chelsea, London.
David Wilkie's painting The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch, 158 × 97 centimetres (62 × 38 in).. The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch, originally entitled Chelsea Pensioners Receiving the London Gazette Extraordinary of Thursday, June 22, 1815, Announcing the Battle of Waterloo, is an oil painting by David Wilkie, commissioned by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of ...
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"Historical Statistics and Records". Chelsea F.C; Glanvill, Rick (2006). Chelsea FC: The Official Biography – The Definitive Story of the First 100 Years. Headline Book Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7553-1466-2. Hockings, Ron. 90 Years of The Blues – A Statistical History of Chelsea FC 1905–1995. "Chelsea FC Club Details".