Frederick, Duke of York and Albany

Partially printed document on vellum, signed ('Frederick FM'), appointing Scheider to be a Cornet in Hompesch’s Chasseurs a Cheval, countersigned by the Duke's two military secretaries Robert Brownrigg (British General who served as Governor of British Ceylon 1812-20), and Captain Edwin Hewgill, one page, light soiling, oblong folio, n.p., 25 July 1797

The Hompesch Hussars were an auxiliary French regiment of the British Army formed during the French Revolutionary Wars as part of the Armee des Emigres