page_title: New South Wales Corps
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: New South Wales Corps / History
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Captain Francis Grose (1758-1814), British Army officer
context_page_description: The New South Wales Corps was formed in England in 1789 as a permanent regiment of the British Army to relieve the New South Wales Marine Corps, who had accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. It was disbanded in 1818.
caption: Major Francis Grose, who commanded the regiment in its early years
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