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    The Norfolk Militia was an auxiliary military force in the English county of Norfolk in East Anglia. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in...
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    The West Norfolk Militia was an auxiliary military regiment in the English county of Norfolk in East Anglia. First organised during the Seven Years' War...
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    The East Norfolk Militia was an auxiliary military unit in the English county of Norfolk in East Anglia. First organised during the Seven Years' War it...
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  • the 3rd and 4th Battalions, Norfolk Regiment, (formerly the West and East Norfolk Militia) and the 3rd (West Suffolk Militia) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment...
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  • Norfolk in East Anglia from 1558 until they were reconstituted as the Norfolk Militia in 1662. They were periodically embodied for home defence, for example...
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    9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot with the local Militia and Rifle Volunteers battalions. The Norfolk Regiment fought in the First World War on the Western...
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    some Lincoln and Kent militia; the second consisted of 50 men of the 41st Regiment with York, Lincoln, Oxford and Norfolk militia; the third was formed...
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    Onstone, invaded the Norfolk/Haldimand region, stealing clothing, horses, and other goods, rounding up cattle and kidnapping militia officers. Captain William...
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    addition to the railway network. Early military units included the Norfolk Militia. In the 20th century the county developed a role in aviation. The first...
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  • Walter Keppel, 9th Earl of Albemarle (category Norfolk Militia officers)
    Wales's Own Norfolk Artillery on 28 March 1900, and promoted to a lieutenant in that regiment on 25 August 1900. This was a Royal Artillery Militia regiment...
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  • from the Loyal Kent Volunteers, Provincial Dragoons, Middlesex Militia, and Norfolk Militia scaled the icy banks of the Thames River to advance on a group...
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    George Keppel (British Army officer, born 1865) (category Norfolk Militia officers)
    Highlanders. He resigned his commission in 1892, but joined the Norfolk Artillery Militia in 1894. Keppel was promoted to captain in 1908 and was appointed...
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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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    George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford (category Norfolk Militia officers)
    Sir Charles Harvey, The History of the 4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment (late East Norfolk Militia), London: Jarrold, 1899, pp. 23–31. Historic England...
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  • Horatio Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford (category Norfolk Militia officers)
    first creation), as Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk, appointed him Lieutenant-Colonel of the East Norfolk Militia. After the earl died, Horatio was promoted...
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    George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend (category Norfolk Militia officers)
    the 4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment (late East Norfolk Militia), London: Jarrold, 1899, pp. 23–7. J.R. Western, The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century:...
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    Frederick Walpole (category Norfolk Militia officers)
    needed] On 18 March 1852 he was commissioned as a Captain in the West Norfolk Militia, of which his father was the Colonel, and was promoted to Major on...
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  • settlements. Major Adam Muir, the local British commander, ordered the Norfolk Militia to assemble, first at Culver's Tavern in Woodhouse township, then in...
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    of Fort George. In this forward position they were harassed by Canadian militia and First Nation warriors. On 24 July Brown fell back to Chippawa Creek...
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    In the War of 1812 between America and Great Britain, Norfolk saw action between American militia led by Richard Lawson and the British navy. On July 13...
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  • from the 1st Norfolk Militia 4th Middlesex Regiment - commanded by Lieut. Col. James Hamilton In 1830 the regiments of Middlesex militia were composed...
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    Edwin Alderson (category Norfolk Militia officers)
    Ipswich School. Aged 17, Alderson received a commission into the Norfolk Artillery Militia, and at 19 he was transferred to the 1st Foot (later Royal Scots...
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  • Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford (category Norfolk Militia officers)
    Lords. He also followed his father as Colonel of the disembodied West Norfolk Militia, being appointed on 26 June 1822. Lord Orford married Mary Wilhelmina...
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  • Sir Kenneth Hagar Kemp, 12th Baronet (category Norfolk Militia officers)
    steadily progressed through the West Norfolk Militia (which became the 3rd (1st Norfolk Militia) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, in 1881): Captain, 7 March...
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    Arnold Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle (category Norfolk Militia officers)
    the 4th (2nd Norfolk Militia) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment in 1900 and of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the regiment (later 5th Bn Norfolks in the Territorial...
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    Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield (category Norfolk Militia officers)
    May 1866 he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Norfolk Artillery Militia in which two of his younger brothers were already serving. In...
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    Patriot ranks being swelled by further militia arrivals to about 1,200, Howe and Woodford moved into Norfolk. Since Colonel Howe held a senior Continental...
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  • 5th Battalion of Select Embodied Militia, Chasseurs Canadiens Militia Lieutenant Colonel David Tisdale, 39th Norfolk Battalion of Infantry Assistant Surgeon...
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  • Thomas Leigh Hare (category Norfolk Militia officers)
    daughter. He was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in the part-time Norfolk Artillery Militia on 20 May 1876, later obtaining a regular commission as a lieutenant...
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    George Manners Astley, 20th Baron Hastings (category Norfolk Militia officers)
    wife had 3 sons and 3 daughters. He served as an officer in the Norfolk Artillery Militia commanded by his father-in-law and previously by his uncle the...
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