The 5th Royal Lancashire Militia (5th RLM) was an auxiliary regiment raised in the county of Lancashire in North West England just before the Crimean...
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Light Infantry) 5th Royal Lancashire Militia 6th Royal Lancashire Militia 7th Royal Lancashire Militia (Rifles) Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery It is...
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the militia and rifle volunteer units of the area into the regimental structure: The 5th Royal Lancashire Militia was redesignated as the 3rd (Militia) Battalion...
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The 6th Royal Lancashire Militia (6th RLM) was an auxiliary regiment raised in the county of Lancashire in North West England just before the Crimean...
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Militia battalions attached to it: these were found by the 7th Royal Lancashire Militia (Rifles), raised in 1855 and recruited from Bury, Manchester and...
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The 7th Royal Lancashire Militia (Rifles) (7th RLM) was an auxiliary regiment raised in the county of Lancashire in North West England just before the...
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The Lancashire Division, Royal Artillery, was an administrative grouping of garrison units of the Royal Artillery, Artillery Militia and Artillery Volunteers...
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(Regular) 3rd (1st Royal Lancashire Militia) Battalion based in Lancaster, from the 1st Bn of the former 1st Royal Lancashire Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's...
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Northumberland Fusiliers (5th), The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers (6th), The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (7th), and The Lancashire Fusiliers (20th)...
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East York Militia (Beverley), North York Rifle Militia (Richmond), Westmoreland Militia (Carlisle) 2nd Brigade 5th Royal Lancashire Militia (Burnley)...
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amalgamation of the 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot, 81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers), 3rd Royal Lancashire Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's...
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The 4th Royal Lancashire Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's Own Light Infantry) was an auxiliary regiment raised in the county of Lancashire in North West...
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Charles Towneley (MP) (category Lancashire Militia officers)
Whig Party and Independent Irish Party, and later commanded the 5th Royal Lancashire Militia. Born in January 1803, he was the eldest son of Peregrine Edward...
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The 2nd Royal Lancashire Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's Own Rifles) was an auxiliary regiment raised in the county of Lancashire in North West England...
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several regiments had more or fewer militia regiments than specified by the initial scheme. In addition, the King's Royal Rifle Corps and the Rifle Brigade...
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and 82nd regiments amalgamated to form the South Lancashire Regiment, the 4th Royal Lancashire Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's Own Light Infantry) became...
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Madras Militia 3rd (later 5th) (Militia) Battalion based in Brentford, formerly 3rd Royal Westminster Middlesex Militia 4th (later 6th) (Militia) Battalion...
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Manchester Regiment (redirect from 88th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery)
battalions; the 6th Royal Lancashire Militia became the 3rd (Reserve) and 4th (Extra Reserve) battalions and the Volunteer battalions became the 5th, 6th, 7th,...
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John Towneley (politician) (category Lancashire Militia officers)
Catholic, Lancashire family. He entered the United Kingdom parliament for the Whig Party, and later commanded the 5th Royal Lancashire Militia. He was made...
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The 21st (Wigan) Lancashire Rifle Volunteers, later the 5th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force and Territorial Army...
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Sir John Thursby, 1st Baronet (category Lancashire Militia officers)
the 1st Royal Lancashire Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's Own) as Captain, before moving to the (newly-raised) 7th Royal Lancashire Militia (Rifles)...
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brigade of the Royal Field Artillery in the Territorial Force in 1908, and served through the First World War with the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division at...
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younger brother John (1806–1878), both were MPs, officers in the 5th Royal Lancashire Militia and trustees of the British Museum. Presidents 1794–1808 John...
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the Fusilier Brigade – the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) and the Lancashire Fusiliers – into a new large...
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Brigade – formerly Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery Artillery Volunteers: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Lancashire; 1st Cheshire and Carnarvonshire;...
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Liverpool Rifles (redirect from 5th (Liverpool Volunteer Rifle Brigade) Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps)
reformed in 1900, and the 46th (Liverpool Welsh) Royal Tank Regiment was formed in 1939. The 5th Lancashire RVC became a volunteer battalion of the King's...
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regiment in 1881: The Royal Cumberland Regiment of Militia and the Royal Westmorland Regiment of Militia became the 3rd and 4th Battalions respectively,...
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Towneley family (category History of Lancashire)
Bridge. Towneley was commissioned on 16 March 1853 to raise the 5th Royal Lancashire Militia with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, with his brother...
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The Lancashire (Fortress) Royal Engineers was a volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers formed in 1884 to defend the Mersey Estuary. As well as serving...
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(Publications) Ltd, Bury, Lancashire. 2000. First published 1989. ISBN 1 86006 123 0 Stoneman, Robert James (2014). "The Reformed British Militia, c.1852-1908. Doctor...
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