• The Royal Longford Rifles was an Irish Militia regiment raised in County Longford in 1793. It saw action during the Irish Rebellion of 1798, when it was...
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    John Vallentin (category Longford Militia officers)
    commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 6th (Royal Longford and Westmeath Militia) Battalion, Rifle Brigade in 1899, and promoted to lieutenant in the...
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  • 6th (Royal Longford Militia) Bn to form the 6th (Royal Longford and Westmeath Militia) Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Lieutenant-Col Malone of the 9th Bn became...
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  • Own Tower Hamlets Militia at Bethnal Green, London 6th Battalion – Royal Longford Rifles at Longford 7th Battalion – King's Own Royal Tower Hamlets Light...
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  • The Carmarthenshire Militia, later the Royal Carmarthen Fusiliers, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county...
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  • The Carnarvonshire Militia, later the Royal Carnarvon Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised in the county of Caernarfonshire (then spelt Carnarvonshire)...
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  • The Royal Queen's County Rifle Militia was an Irish Militia regiment in Queen's County (now County Laois) raised in 1793. It later became a battalion...
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  • Richey, A Short History of the Royal Longford Militia, 1793–1893, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1894. Arthur Sleigh, The Royal Militia and Yeomanry Cavalry Army...
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  • The King's County Royal Rifle Militia was an Irish Militia regiment in King's County (now County Offaly) dating back to 1776. It later became a battalion...
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  • The Royal Meath Militia was an Irish Militia regiment in County Meath raised in 1793. It later became a battalion of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment...
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    to amalgamate with another regiment. At the same time the existing militia and rifle volunteer units of the district became battalions of the regiment...
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  • had more or fewer militia regiments than specified by the initial scheme. In addition, the King's Royal Rifle Corps and the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's...
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    Luke White, 2nd Baron Annaly (category Longford Militia officers)
    he was appointed in 1859 Lieutenant-Colonel of the part-time Royal Longford Rifle Militia (of which his father was Colonel). In 1859 he was returned to...
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    Richey, A Short History of the Royal Longford Militia, 1793–1893, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1894. Arthur Sleigh, The Royal Militia and Yeomanry Cavalry Army...
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    Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (category Alumni of the Royal College of Art)
     346. Longford 1991, p. 74. Quoted in Longford 1991, p. 74 Longford 1991, p. 73. Longford 1991, p. 77. Quoted in Longford 1991, p. 77 Longford 1991, p...
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    John Conroy (category Montgomeryshire Militia officers)
    Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Royal Montgomeryshire Militia on 30 August 1852 when it was being reformed as a rifle regiment. Despite his pensions and...
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  • Riding of Yorkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Sir James Bourne Bt Royal Lancashire Artillery Militia Lieutenant-Colonel...
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  • George Forbes, 7th Earl of Granard (category Westmeath Militia officers)
    owned 21,000 acres in Longford, Leitrim and Wexford. Granard was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel commandant of the Westmeath Rifle Militia on 26 December 1855...
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  • decisive battle took place at Ballinamuck in County Longford and the French surrendered; the militia were landed again. However, the invitation was renewed...
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    Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (category Politicians from County Longford)
    first becoming a militia officer. In December 1882 he joined the Longford Militia, which was also the 6th (Militia) Battalion of the Rifle Brigade. He also...
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    was finally compelled to raise militia and volunteer forces (the Bermuda Militia Artillery and the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps) by Act in the 1890s (the...
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    Edward Pleydell-Bouverie (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
    a number of his kinsmen, he became an officer in the part-time Royal Berkshire Militia, being commissioned as a captain on 23 February 1838 and was still...
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  • Hercules Pakenham (category British Militia officers)
    militia on 27 September 1902. In 1906 he became lieutenant-colonel and commanding officer of the London Irish Rifles, a unit of the Middlesex Rifle Volunteers...
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    Battle of Waterloo (category Battle honours of the Rifle Brigade)
    ISBN 978-1-78383-199-9. Longford 1971, p. 547. Roberts 2001, pp. 163–166. Barbero 2005, p. 73. Roberts 2001, p. xxxii. Longford 1971, p. 548. Bonaparte...
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    Wellington — The Years of the Sword, by Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford "1787 - 1810 Wars in India". Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)...
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  • Arthur George Newman, Royal Regiment of Artillery. No. 6687814 Warrant Officer Class I William Harold Newman, The King's Royal Rifle Corps. Captain (Quartermaster)...
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  • cost an estimated £17.6 billion and requires 738 homes in Harmondsworth, Longford, and Sipson be demolished. Disabled United States Army veteran Lisa McCombs...
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    Ingram, Royal Regiment of Artillery. 6212171 Sergeant James Cornelius Ingram, The King's Royal Rifle Corps. T/142222 Sergeant Ronald Ingram, Royal Army Service...
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    Edward King-Harman (category King's Royal Rifle Corps officers)
    Ballymahon, County Longford. King-Harman was educated at Eton and became a lieutenant in the 60th Rifles and captain in the Longford Militia. He inherited...
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    was born 29 September 1781, the third son of Edward Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford and Hon. Catherine Rowley. He was a brother of Catherine Pakenham (which...
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