Sunderland Loyal Volunteers

The Sunderland Loyal Volunteers was a volunteer corps associated [1] with the City (then a town) of Sunderland in North East England. In existence between 1794 and 1802 and again from 1803 to 1812, it manned batteries at the mouth of the River Wear during the Napoleonic Wars.[2]

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  1. ^ "Sunderland: River, Town and People", G Milburn and S Miller (1989), Thomas Reed Publications, ISBN 978-0-947637-06-4
  2. ^ ""John Rain's An Eye Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth", ed. Clay, Milburn and Miller (1984), Frank Graham, ISBN 978-0-85983-187-1