York Light Infantry Volunteers

The York Light Infantry Volunteers (YLIV) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army which existed from 1803 to 1817. It was formed in September 1803 as the Barbados Volunteer Emigrants (BVE) from prisoners of war captured when British forces occupied the Dutch colonies of Demerara, Essequibo and Berbice during the Napoleonic Wars. The unit's officers were mostly Britons transferred from other units or commissioned from the ranks. The BVE was renamed in January 1804 as the "York Light Infantry Volunteers".

A further number of troops were recruited to the unit from French prisoners of war and soldiers who deserted to the British during the Peninsular War. The YLIV served for the entirety of its existence in the West Indies, seeing action in the Caribbean campaign of 1803–1810. It was present at the British invasion of Surinam in 1804 and the invasions of Martinique and Guadeloupe in 1809 and 1810. The regiment spent the final years of the Napoleonic Wars garrisoning Jamaica, before being sent to England in early 1817, where it was disbanded on 19 March.