The Montgomeryshire Militia, later the Royal Montgomeryshire Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised in the Welsh county of Montgomeryshire during...
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The Brecknockshire Militia, later the Royal Brecknockshire Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county...
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John Conroy (category Montgomeryshire Militia officers)
breeding. He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Royal Montgomeryshire Militia on 30 August 1852 when it was being reformed as a rifle regiment...
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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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Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (category Montgomeryshire Militia officers)
was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Eastern Montgomeryshire Local Militia, which existed until 1816. Powis also had long service in the...
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The Merionethshire Militia, later the Royal Merioneth Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county of...
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force en masse, and the Montgomeryshire Legion infantry easily filled the new Eastern and Western Montgomeryshire Local Militia. The cavalry troops however...
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Radnor and Brecknock Rifles) 4th (Royal Montgomeryshire Militia) Battalion - formerly the Royal Montgomeryshire Rifles; disbanded in 1908 1st Brecknockshire...
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Henry Hanbury-Tracy (category Montgomeryshire Militia officers)
a deputy lieutenant of Montgomeryshire by his brother, and was promoted by him to major of the Royal Montgomeryshire Militia on 3 September. Hanbury-Tracy...
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George Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis (category Montgomeryshire Militia officers)
Shrewsbury. In 1898 he was made Honorary Colonel of the 4th (Royal Montgomeryshire Militia) Battalion, South Wales Borderers. In 1890, six months before...
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The 7th (Merionethshire & Montgomeryshire) Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers, was a Welsh unit of Britain's Territorial Force. First raised in 1897, it...
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9th (Welsh) Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry (redirect from 31st (Montgomeryshire) Company, Imperial Yeomanry)
Mallock, DSO, of the Royal Fusiliers. Although two of the captains were from the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, the others were from militia and volunteer infantry...
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The Royal Westminster Militia, later the 5th (Reserve) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, was an auxiliary regiment raised in the City of Westminster in the...
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George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (category Montgomeryshire Militia officers)
the Montgomeryshire Militia in 1778. In 1798 he was also made Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire; he was also appointed colonel of the Shropshire Militia in...
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10th (Merionethshire & Montgomeryshire) Battalion – from the 7th Bn 70th Anti-Tank Regiment – from the 60th Rgt; granted Royal Welch Fusiliers subtitle...
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Charles Williams-Wynn (1775–1850) (category Montgomeryshire Yeomanry officers)
74. Bryn Owen, History of the Welsh Militia and Volunteer Corps 1757–1908: Montgomeryshire Regiments of Militia, Volunteers and Yeomanry Cavalry, Wrexham:...
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1660 he was commissioner for militia for Shropshire and North Wales and became J.P. for Shropshire and Montgomeryshire until 1687. Although he was appointed...
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regimental district of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, and Montgomeryshire in that of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers The Army - Restoration of old facings, The...
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responsible for organising the county's militia. In 1871, the lieutenant's responsibility over the local militia was removed. However, it was not until...
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William Herbert Waring (category Royal Welch Fusiliers soldiers)
978-1-845747-28-2. Bryn Owen, History of the Welsh Militia and Volunteer Corps 1757–1908: Montgomeryshire Regiments of Militia, Volunteers and Yeomanry Cavalry, Wrexham:...
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The 1/1st Montgomeryshire Yeomanry was an active service unit formed by the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry during World War I. It was sent to garrison Egypt...
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Peace of both Montgomeryshire and Merionethshire. He was awarded the Royal Officers' Decoration and was appointed Knight Commander, Royal Victorian Order...
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Brecknockshire Battalion (redirect from 638th (Brecknock) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery)
978-1-78331-085-2. Bryn Owen, History of the Welsh Militia and Volunteer Corps 1757–1908: Montgomeryshire Regiments of Militia, Volunteers and Yeomanry Cavalry, Wrexham:...
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South Wales Borderers (category Royal Regiment of Wales)
formed of the former Royal South Wales Borderers Militia and the 4th from the Royal Montgomeryshire Rifles. It also had four (later five) Volunteer Battalions...
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During the year nearly 300 men drawn from the East Suffolk and Montgomeryshire Militia were employed in constructing the modern defences at Dover Castle...
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Lincolnshire Londonderry Merionethshire Middlesex Midlothian Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Morayshire Nairnshire Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire...
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landing force provided by Royal Navy warships in the bay. In 1808 the volunteer infantry were replaced by the Glamorgan Local Militia, leaving the yeomanry...
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badge) Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) (cap badge) Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales's Own) (cap badge) Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers...
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1st Denbighshire Rifle Volunteers (redirect from 4th (Denbighshire) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers)
lieutenant-colonel of the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry) 2nd (Ruabon) Denbighshire RVC, formed 12 April 1860; Lt-Col Richard Blackwood-Prce, retired from the Royal Artillery...
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ISBN 1-872424-51-1. Bryn Owen, History of the Welsh Militia and Volunteer Corps 1757–1908: Montgomeryshire Regiments of Militia, Volunteers and Yeomanry Cavalry, Wrexham:...
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