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The Corps was established on 31 August 1786 with assent from King George III, for a force of 160 enlisted marines and accompanying officers to attend the colony of New South Wales "... for the purpose of enforcing subordination and obedience in the settlement [at Botany Bay], as well as for defence of that settlement against the incursions of the natives."
The officers of the New South Wales Marine Corps commanded the first European military unit to be stationed on the Australian continent. Commissioned to guard convicts aboard the First Fleet to Botany Bay in 1788, they subsequently enforced discipline at penal colonies in Port Jackson and Norfolk Island. The New South Wales Marines were ...
The New South Wales Corps, later known as the 102d Regiment of Foot, and lastly as the 100th Regiment of Foot, was a formation of the British Army organised in 1789 in England to relieve the New South Wales Marine Corps, which had accompanied the First Fleet to New South Wales.
NSW Marines may refer to the New South Wales Marine Corps which accompanied the First Fleet to Australia and was disbanded in 1791; or the New South Wales Marine Light Infantry which took part in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900–01.
On arrival in New South Wales, Johnston served as adjutant to Governor Arthur Phillip, and was promoted in 1789 to the rank of Captain-Lieutenant of Marines. He transferred from the New South Wales Marine Corps to the locally raised New South Wales Corps in 1791 with the rank of captain. [4] [5] [7]
William Baker (c. 1761 —14 September 1836) was a New South Wales Marine and member of the First Fleet that founded the European penal colony of New South Wales.. Initially an orderly for the colony's first Governor, Arthur Phillip, Baker was later appointed government storekeeper in Parramatta, and storekeeper and superintendent of convicts in the rural settlement of Hawkesbury.
James Scott (died 1796) was a Sergeant of Marines in the New South Wales Marine Corps and commander of the first quarter guard in New South Wales.He is notable for his journal describing his experiences in the First Fleet, which established the first European settlement in Australia in 1788.
In 1786 he volunteered for the newly formed New South Wales Marine Corps and was designated its commander with the brevet rank of major. Accompanied by his eight-year-old son, he sailed to New South Wales on HMS Sirius, transferring to Scarborough during the voyage.