The 109th (Aberdeenshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1794 to 1795. Colonel Alexander Hay of Rannes, a former officer of the 104th Regiment of Foot, persuaded the King William IV to grant him permission to raise his own regiment in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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- The 109th (Aberdeenshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1794 to 1795. Colonel Alexander Hay of Rannes, a former officer of the 104th Regiment of Foot, persuaded the King William IV to grant him permission to raise his own regiment in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He used an ingenious method of recruiting men by paying each volunteer a bounty of Five Pounds then further authorising a raffle amongst every twenty recruits whereby the winner would receive 100 pounds and permission to buy his discharge for twenty pounds, thus providing the winner with an eighty pound profit plus the original 5 pound bounty. By 4 September 1794 the 109th Regiment comprised twenty-three officers plus seven hundred and eighteen enlisted NCOs and men. Posterity does not record how many men took advantage of the twenty pound discharge fee. The Regiment, having formed marched to Dundee at the end of September thence via Burntisland, Fife to Southampton, England in late October. Upon arriving in Southampton the 109th embarked for the Bailiwick of Jersey for eight months and in 1795 joined General Abercrombie's force bound for the West Indies. Before the move could be completed Colonel Hay received notification that his regiment was to be disbanded and amalgamated with the 53rd Regiment of Foot. As was traditional at that time (and still is with similar circumstance of the British Army) there was much complaint and politicking, however whatever the circumstance of the infighting amongst Aberdeenshire gentry, Allardyce of Dunottar (Aberdeenshire) in the House of Commons of Great Britain declared that Aberdeenshire had no complaint with the amalgamation and this seemed to win the day over the support for the 109th by General Macleod. On 12 September 1795 eighteen officers together with the muster of the 109th transferred to the 53rd Regiment ending the 109th Aberdeenshire Regiment of Foot.
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