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The following is dedicated to the
Revolutionary War soldiers who died in captivity at Camp Security in
York, Pennsylvania, and to the Friends of Camp Security, who are
striving to preserve their memory.
The following work is an attempt to collect together a wide variety of
records relating to the Royal prisoners during the American War for
Independence. A number of books are available which provide the records
of the American armies during this period, but little work has been done
to collect the records of the opposing Army. The British Army during the
Revolutionary War was composed of a number of differing regiments,
containing British, German, Canadian and Loyalist troops. As with any
conflict, some of the troops were killed, injured or captured during
military engagements. Absent spending months or years in the British
records transcribing the original muster rolls, the prisoner records
provide the only good source for the identification of not only the
officers in the British Army, but the non-commissioned troops as well.
You can
download these records in pdf format here |
