Sir Vincent Corbet's Dragoons

Ercall Dragoons

By Stuart Reid and John Barratt


Raised in Shropshire, 1642, in January 1643 defeated at Drayton and Wcm. Fought at Whitchurch and Nantwich, garrison of High Ercall April 1645, helped defend Moreton Corbett Castle 1645, and fought at Denbigh Green. Surrendered in Bridgenorth, 1646.

Lt-Col. Edward Baldwin?: ex. Capt. Commiss. raise Dragoon Rcgt. Dec. 1642 P.W. Oswestry 23/6/44 Major Oliver Bingley:

CAPTAINS

Edward Baldwin: ment. 1.0. (Diddlebury, Shrops) see also above John Gough: ment.

HISTORY OF MYDDLE (Wolverhampton) Thos Pigott: ment. 1.0. (Chetwynd, Shrops) March-May 1643

Robert Sandford: ment. 1.0. John Young: I.C. Shrops (HORSE)(Pimbley) P.W. Shrewsbury, Feb. 1645; Rowton Heath, Sept. 1645?

LIEUTENANT Anthony Oakly: 1.0. Shropshire. Pigott's Troop

CORNETS

Humphrey Pen: I.O.Shropshire. Baldwin's Troop Ambrose Pigeon: 1.0. Shropshire Arthur Sandford: 1.0. Shropshire. Sandford's Troop

From Officers & Regiments of the Royalist Army Vol I (2nd edition) by Stuart Reid and John Barratt


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