• The Kent Militia was an auxiliary military force in the county of Kent in South East England. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in 1558 until...
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  • The East Kent Militia, later the 3rd Battalion, Buffs (East Kent Regiment) was an auxiliary regiment raised in Kent in South East England. From its formal...
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  • The Kent Trained Bands were a part-time militia recruited from Kent in South East England, first organised in 1558. They were periodically embodied for...
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  • West Kent Militia (Light Infantry from 1853), later the 3rd Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) was an auxiliary regiment raised in Kent in...
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  • West Point, Virginia (1632–1691) was a planter, commander of the New Kent Militia in the Colony of Virginia and represented the county in the House of...
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  • The Kent Militia Artillery was a part-time reserve unit of Britain's Royal Artillery based at Dover in Kent, from 1853 to 1909. The long-standing national...
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    and 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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    George Sackville, 4th Duke of Dorset (category Kent Militia officers)
    commissioned as a captain in the Sevenoaks and Bromley Regiment of Local Militia on 27 April 1813 and on 26 July the same year he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel...
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    George Finch-Hatton (MP for Rochester) (category Kent Militia officers)
    Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Ashford Regiment of Local Militia (later the 1st East Kent or Ashford, Oldcastle and Elham Regiment). George was the heir...
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    George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea (category Kent Militia officers)
    October 1809 he became a captain in the 1st East Kent or Ashford, Oldcastle and Elham Regiment of Local Militia, on 14 December 1819 commenced acting as a lieutenant...
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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 Harris, 1st Baron Harris (category Kent Militia officers)
    Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the part-time 2nd East Kent or Lath of Scray and Wingham Regiment of Local Militia. In 1815 he was made a peer of the United Kingdom...
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    (East Kent Regiment) on 1 July 1881. The East Kent Militia became the regiment's 3rd (Militia) Battalion (1881–1953) and its short-lived 4th (Militia) Battalion...
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  • as The Kent Regiment on 1 April 1941. The Essex and Kent Scottish perpetuate the following units: 1st and 2nd Regiments of the Essex Militia the 1st...
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    John Dixwell (category Kent Militia officers)
    the Wars of the Three Kingdoms he held various administrative positions in Kent on behalf of Parliament, and approved the Execution of Charles I in January...
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    John Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden (category Kent Militia officers)
    Lord Lieutenant of Kent between 1808 and 1840 and appointed himself Colonel of the Cranbrook and Woodsgate Regiment of Local Militia in 1809. He was Chancellor...
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  • establishing a line of outposts in the counties of Essex, Kent, Oxford, Middlesex, and Norfolk. The local militia conducted small skirmishes and raids against various...
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    Arthur Griffith-Boscawen (category Kent Militia officers)
    Griffith-Boscawen was commissioned into the part-time 3rd (West Kent Militia) Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), with which he saw embodied service in...
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    Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond (category Kent Militia officers)
    Lieutenant and Vice Admiral of Kent, jointly with the Earl of Winchilsea, and commanded one of the regiments of Kent Militia In 1671 he was sent as ambassador...
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  • 1588, the militia was called out in anticipation of an invasion by the Spanish Armada and it included many archers in its ranks; the Kent militia for instance...
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    Lewis Watson, 2nd Baron Sondes (category Kent Militia officers)
    1798, he was commissioned Colonel of the Kent Supplementary Militia. This was converted into the 3rd Kent Militia, and he was breveted colonel in the Army...
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  • (East Kent Regiment) in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, four pre-existent militia and volunteer battalions of Kent were...
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    George Byng, 7th Viscount Torrington (category Kent Militia officers)
    Lieutenant-Colonel of the West Kent Light Infantry Militia (later the 3rd and 4th Battalions, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)) in the 1850s, was...
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  • Samuel Elias Sawbridge (category Kent Militia officers)
    educated at both Harrow School and Eton College. He joined the East Kent Militia as an ensign and rose to the rank of Colonel by 1808. On the early death...
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    Sir Henry Oxenden, 3rd Baronet (category Kent Militia officers)
    was Colonel of a regiment of the Kent Militia in 1697. Col George Jackson Hay, An Epitomized History of the Militia (The Constitutional Force), London:...
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    Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth (category Kent Militia officers)
    MP (a nephew of The 1st Baron Whitworth), was born at Leybourne Grange, Kent, on 19 May 1752 and baptised there on 29 May 1752. He was educated at Tonbridge...
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    in 1897, and Honorary Colonel of the 3rd (West Kent Militia) Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) in 1884. In August 1899 the 6th Battalion...
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  • active service: 49th, or East Kent Militia (later 3rd Battalion, the Buffs) 55th, or Royal Westminster, or 3rd Middlesex Militia (later 5th Battalion, the...
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  • George Head (category Kent Militia officers)
    educated at the Charterhouse. In 1808 he became a captain in the West Kent Militia, then at Woodbridge, Suffolk, but in the following year joined the British...
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    Edinburgh Militia relieved the 2nd West York at Yaxley barracks, and the latter regiment marched to Colchester. However, the Edinburgh's Militia were soon...
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