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Chelsea pensioners in scarlet coats and tricorne hats at the Founder's Day parade in the Royal Hospital Chelsea. 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 number of in-pensioners never exceeded 500 at any time and comprised just 14% of the total number of pensioners in 1703 and just 2% in 1785. [1]: 7 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.
The Royal Hospital Chelsea, often called simply Chelsea Hospital, [2] is a retirement home and nursing home for some 300 veterans of the British Army. It is a 66-acre site located on Royal Hospital Road in Chelsea, London. It is an independent charity and relies partly upon donations to cover day-to-day running costs to provide care and ...
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 ...
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.
The Duke of Sussex has revealed he killed 25 people in Afghanistan in his new book, Spare.
The Russian mercenaries shot pensioners, women and children — a 5-year-old girl, one said, right through the head. Details of brutal war crimes committed by the Wagner Group in Ukraine have been ...
Pages in category "Chelsea Pensioners" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Chelsea Pensioner; C.