Since 1692 there have been about 25,000 Chelsea Pensioners. Initially the In-Pensioners at The Royal Hospital were interred in the Burial Ground adjacent to the London Gate . By 1855 this was full and burials were transferred to Brompton Cemetery . Since 1893 burials and the interment of cremated remains have been carried out at Brookwood Cemetery (near Woking )…

The records below, which are currently incomplete, show the details for each In-Pensioner. Some In-Pensioners served in more than one Regiment or Corps. That shown is the ‘cap badge' that each elected to wear while at The Royal Hospital. The Royal Hospital holds information on In-Pensioners since 1871. Before that time all records are held in the National Archives.



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Name Date of Birth Date of Entry in RHC Date of Death Regiment / Corps
Brotherton, Frederick ALexander 22/01/25 28/09/96 20/03/00 Scots Guards
Fraser, John 16.05.15 10.06.91 04.09.91 Scots Guards
Gemmell, Harold 29/03/25 29/03/99 19/12/00 Scots Guards
Goy, William Thomas 30.12.1898 05.12.83 26.07.86 Scots Guards
????????, ????? ????????? 28/10/33 09/12/00 06/01/05 Scots Guards
Hagen, George Taylor 30/04/34 09/12/00 16/01/04 Scots Guards
Jago, Thomas Austin . . 15.03.86 Scots Guards
McBride, Anthony Bransby 05/10/09 12/02/79 24/06/99 Scots Guards
Newson, Reginald Percy . . 26.03.82 Scots Guards
Pugh, Edward 16.11.15 18.03.91 25.12.93 Scots Guards
Pybus , Sidney 29/04/04 14/11/94 27/01/01 Scots Guards
Slater, Stanley Raymond . . 26.10.85 Scots Guards (Green Jackets)
White, Maurice 22/09/14 15/06/92 09/09/97 Scots Guards

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The Scots Guards were formed in 1642. Originally Commanded by Archibald, First Marquis of Argyle. The Regiment was formed to protect Scottish settlers in Ulster and become part of the Royal Guard for Charles 1. Over the centuries the Regiment has been known by a number of different names such as the Scots Fusilier Guards, before having the present title restored by Queen Victoria in 1877.

The Scots Guards have fought in every major war and campaign that the British Army has been involved in, including The Seven Year War, American Revolution, Napoleonic War, South African War (186 1-1864) World Wars, one and Two, Malaya and most recently the Falkland Islands 1982 and the Gulf 1991 accumulating more than 94 Battle Honours throughout the years.
Today the Regiment is still involved in Public and Combat Duties throughout the world.

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Last Updated: Friday, 10 September, 2004, 11:37 GMT 12:37 UK

Profile: Simon Mann Bespectacled, bearded and bound in chains, Simon Mann looked more like a jailed intellectual than a freelance commando leading a team of coup conspirators. But a Zimbabwean court has handed down a seven-year prison sentence to this grizzled Englishman for attempting to buy arms for an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea. Sixty-six other suspected mercenaries were arrested with Mann when their plane was impounded in the capital, Harare, in March. They were jailed for breaking immigration laws, but acquitted of links to the suspected coup plot.

Mr Mann's lawyers say their client and the others — mostly South Africans — were on their way to the Democratic Republic of Congo to help secure diamond mines. They say the guns and ammunition they were trying to buy in Zimbabwe were for that purpose alone, and the coup charge is "laughable", lifted from the pages of an airport thriller.
Action man
Simon Mann's story has the hallmarks of popular fiction. Born into privilege, he was swept up by the pursuit of adventure. The detained men's families have voiced concern at their conditions

As befits the son of an England cricket captain and the heir to a brewing fortune, he studied at Eton, the exclusive private school favoured by princes and the political elite. Eton was followed by Sandhurst, the prestigious military academy, and from there it was a natural progression to the Scots Guards, an army regiment associated with royalty and the upper class of British society.

Mr Mann then joined the SAS, the army's special-forces unit, rising swiftly through the ranks to become a commander. After reportedly serving in Cyprus, Germany, central America and Northern Ireland, he left the military in 1981, returning to its ranks only briefly 10 years later to work for Britain's Gulf War commander, Gen Peter de la Billiere.
Arms and advice
During the 1980s, Mr Mann sold computer security equipment and ran a business providing bodyguards to wealthy clients. In the early 1990s, he set up Executive Outcomes, a security consultancy, with his associate Tony Buckingham. Executive Outcomes developed a formidable reputation delivering advice — and armed guards — to protect businesses operating in conflict zones. The company earned millions from the Angolan government by guarding oil installations against rebel attacks. In the mid-1990s, Mr Mann entered a partnership with fellow former Scots Guardsman, Tim Spicer. They established another private security firm, Sandline International, which was soon being linked to the civil war in Sierra Leone. Its role in the conflict remains open to speculation. The firm is believed to have delivered "logistical support", including guns, to the country while it was under a UN arms embargo. According to Michael Gove of The Times newspaper of London, mercenaries working for Mr Mann helped defeat the rebels led by Foday Sankoh and paved the way for "democratic rule".
'Dirty work'
Those who have known Simon Mann describe him as poker-faced, mysterious and secretive.
Yet he emerged into the limelight in 2002 to play a British officer in a film about the Bloody Sunday killings in Northern Ireland. The film's director, Paul Greengrass, spoke of him as a "humane man, but an adventurer... very English, a romantic, tremendously good company". Mr Gove argues that Mr Mann's private security firms "have been scrupulous about operating in concert with Western policy goals while maintaining a discreet distance". The Zimbabwean authorities have already accused Western intelligence agencies of sending the men to do their dirty work.

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Frederick Forsyth that right wing lunatic was on Newsnight in the UK the other night. His defense for the mercenaries going over there was simply "If British soldiers of fortune don't go over there and train anti Government factions....then the French will".

That was the main argument he put forward. Scarey how the Establishment in Britain and the US still have the same mindset that they know better and must liberate the resources of the 'coloured' people of the world. There was a program on TV a few nights ago about how the white, rich railroad men in the US ....treaties with the Native Americans once Gold was discovered in the Black Hills broke. Now the rich men just send ex-special forces soldiers of fortune over to cause unrest and then the place men are put in to sign the lucrative deals. 140 years and nothing has changed.