• The Militia and Volunteers of Northumberland are those military units raised in the county independently of the regular Army. The "modern" militia dates...
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  • The Northumberland Militia Artillery was a part-time reserve unit of Britain's Royal Artillery based in the County of Northumberland, from 1854 to 1909...
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    Foot) Militia battalion 3rd (Militia) Battalion (formerly Northumberland Light Infantry Militia) Volunteer battalions 1st Northumberland (Northumberland and...
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  • The Militia and Volunteers of County Durham are those military units raised in the County independent of the regular Army. The "modern" militia dates...
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  • Bands in 1558 the Militia regiments of the riding served in home defence and internal security in all of Britain's major wars. It was one of the first British...
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  • for Rifle and Artillery volunteers at Tynemouth, formal enrolment for the 1st Northumberland Artillery Volunteers opened on 2 August, and the corps was...
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  • Westmeath, where the Londonderry Militia joined the Bedfordshire and Worcestershire Militia and the Northumberland Fencibles in forming Maj-Gen Charles...
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    and witness depositions, the militia detachment was led by Lieutenants John Moyer and John Fish of Captain Johannes Van Etten's company of volunteers...
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  • The Northumberland Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Non-Permanent Active Militia of the Canadian Militia (now the Canadian Army). In 1936, the...
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    The 2nd Northumberland Rifle Volunteer Corps, also referred to as the Tynemouth Rifles, was an infantry unit of Britain's part-time force, the Territorial...
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    Exeter and South Devon Volunteers, formed in 1852, who became the 1st Devonshire Rifle Volunteers (and were often referred to as the 1st Rifle Volunteer Corps)...
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  • Brigade – formerly Yorkshire Artillery Militia Artillery Volunteers: 1st, 2nd and 3rd Northumberland; 1st and 2nd East Riding; 1st North Riding; 1st Berwick-on-Tweed;...
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    Light Infantry Militia became the 3rd (Militia) Battalion and the rifle volunteers formed the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Volunteer Battalions of the regiment. Further...
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    Northern Division, Royal Artillery (category Military units and formations in Newcastle upon Tyne)
    was an administrative grouping of garrison units of the Royal Artillery, Artillery Militia and Artillery Volunteers within the British Army's Northern...
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    Commissariat Volunteers (1779–1782) Loyal Ordnance Volunteers (1780) Loyal Volunteers of the City of New York (also, known as New York City Militia) (1776–1783)...
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    The British Militia was the principal military reserve force of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Militia units were repeatedly raised in Great Britain during...
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    Hexham Old Gaol (category Prisons in Northumberland)
    as a bank and a solicitor's office. The old gaol became the home of the 2nd Northumberland Rifle Volunteers when it was formed in 1860 and remained in...
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  • barracks for five companies of the regiment, which with the Bedfordshire and Londonderry Militia and the Northumberland Fencibles formed Maj-Gen Charles...
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    sedentary militia was practiced in Canada as early as 1669 and continued until the late 19th century, when Canada's sedentary Reserve Militia fell into...
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    Protestant, Pennsylvania, and American Patriot and British Loyalist colonial militias. But unlike militias, the associator military volunteers were exempt from...
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  • militia, while the rest of the militia and the volunteers would be assigned to fixed defences round London and the seaports. After the disasters of Black...
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  • regiment of the Non-Permanent Active Militia of the Canadian Militia (now the Canadian Army). In 1936, the regiment was Amalgamated with The Northumberland Regiment...
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  • Northumberland Regiment and Redesignated as The Midland Regiment (Northumberland and Durham) Prior to the War of 1812 Upper Canada passed the Militia...
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    Earl of Cardigan) Lord Wellingtons Bodyguard – Northumberland Fusiliers Loyal Lincoln Volunteers – 81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) later...
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  • 172nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union Army from Pennsylvania)
    000 nine-month volunteers, the Commonwealth drafted (under the Federal Militia Act of 1862) fifteen regiments between mid-October and early December 1862...
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  • and was also titled the First Regiment of Militia. The most senior Volunteer Force artillery corps was the 1st Northumberland Artillery Volunteer Corps...
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    Battalion of Lancaster County Militia, 1776 3rd Battalion of the Northhampton County Militia, 1777–84 3rd Battalion of Northumberland County Militia, 1779...
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    Charles Broad (British Army officer) (category British Militia officers)
    officer of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Broad was commissioned in 1904 into the Cambridge University Volunteers, then into...
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  • rebellion of the Duke of Northumberland, and later to attend the coronation. The legal basis of the militia was updated in Mary's reign with two acts of 1557...
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  • Volunteers. In 1797, to release regulars for overseas service, the strength of the Militia was increased by the creation of the Supplementary Militia...
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