The Fifeshire Militia was an auxiliary regiment raised in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1798. It served in home defence during the Napoleonic Wars and again...
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Norman Leslie, 19th Earl of Rothes (category Fifeshire Militia officers)
commission in 1899. In 1905 he was appointed captain in the Fifeshire Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia). He resigned his commission in 1909. In 1911 he was...
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James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose (category Fifeshire Militia officers)
1821 to 1827 and from 1828 to 1830. He was appointed Colonel of the Fifeshire Militia when that regiment was first raised in 1798, and given the rank of...
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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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closing as a prison in 1844, it was used by the Fifeshire Militia, later the Fifeshire Artillery Militia. It was purchased by William Watt (seedsman) in...
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George Lindsay-Crawford, 22nd Earl of Crawford (category Fifeshire Militia officers)
Colonel of the Fife Light Horse between 1798 and 1803 Colonel of the Fifeshire Militia from 18 August 1802 Gained the rank of Major-General in 1805. He was...
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Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose (category Fifeshire Militia officers)
general in the British Army. Hutchison was a lieutenant in the Fifeshire Artillery Militia when he received a regular commission as a second lieutenant...
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The Militia Artillery units of the United Kingdom and Colonies (including Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, and...
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William Anstruther-Gray (St Andrews MP) (category Fifeshire Militia officers)
succeeding to the Carntyne estate in 1904. He joined the part-time Fifeshire Artillery Militia as a Sub-Lieutenant (Supernumerary) on 16 December 1876. He served...
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Royal Denbigh Rifles (redirect from Denbighshire Horse Militia)
Hertfordshire Militia. By 1 September the regiment, with 348 men in 5 companies, under Lt-Col John Lloyd Salusbury, was stationed with the Fifeshire Militia at Chatham...
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The 1st Fife Artillery Volunteers, later the Highland (Fifeshire) Heavy Battery, was a volunteer unit first recruited in Fife, Scotland, in 1860, which...
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The Forfarshire Militia, later the Forfar and Kincardine Militia was an auxiliary regiment recruited in the Scottish counties of Forfarshire and Kincardineshire...
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classics. He was a captain in the Fifeshire Artillery Militia from 1877 to 1881 and was a J.P. and deputy lieutenant for Fifeshire. Bruce was elected at the 1880...
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Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, seven pre-existent militia and volunteer battalions of Fife, Forfarshire, and Perthshire were integrated...
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Peebles Artillery Militia 3rd Brigade – formerly Duke of Edinburgh's Own Edinburgh Artillery 4th Brigade – formerly Fifeshire Artillery Militia 5th Brigade...
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Edward Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin (category Forfar and Kincardine Militia officers)
Garrison Artillery (Militia), and when the Territorial Force was created in 1908 he became Commanding officer of the Highland (Fifeshire) Heavy Battery, RGA...
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regular or "line" battalions and two militia battalions. In Ireland, there were to be two line and three militia battalions. This was done by renaming...
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the Forfarshire Rifle Volunteers, the Perthshire Rifle Volunteers, the Fifeshire Rifle Volunteers, the Elginshire Rifle Volunteers, the Aberdeenshire Rifle...
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Southern Division, Royal Artillery (section Militia)
administrative grouping of garrison units of the Royal Artillery, Artillery Militia and Artillery Volunteers within the British Army's Southern District from...
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column of roughly 2,000 government soldiers (drawn from the Monaghan Militia, Fifeshire Fencibles and the 22nd Dragoons) and six 6-pounder guns and two howitzers...
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Goldsmith's Animated Nature. After his regiment was disbanded he bought the Fifeshire flax mill. That, however, burned down before Brown had the opportunity...
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as well. From 1797, the shires also served as areas for organising the militia, which was the responsibility of a lord-lieutenant. Following the union...
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Militia (6 btys) 3rd Brigade at Edinburgh – formerly Duke of Edinburgh's Own Edinburgh Artillery (6 btys) 4th Brigade at Cupar – formerly Fifeshire Artillery...
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1730-1759). His paternal grandfather, Thomas Melvill was minister of Scoonie, Fifeshire, Scotland. Melvill was orphaned at the age of 10 and was raised by his...
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Street, Dundee Forfarshire Battery at 22–26 East Abbey Street, Arbroath Fifeshire Battery at Leven City of Dundee Battery at Dudhope Drill Hall 2nd Highland...
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the first week of November 1841. When the four first immigrant ships – Fifeshire, Mary-Ann, Lord Auckland and Lloyds – arrived three months later, they...
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15 – John Anstruther-Thomson, Scottish nobleman, Colonel of the Royal Fifeshire Yeomanry Cavalry (d. 1833) April 17 – Jean-François Roger, French poet...
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same sequence as regular and militia battalions. The recruitment area of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) was Fifeshire, Forfarshire and Perthshire...
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Selwyn Registrar of the Court of Chancery in Barbados 2 January 1752 Fifeshire u James Oswald James Oswald Lord of Trade 30 December 1751 Wilton u Robert...
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fencibles in 1802, and "the establishment in that year of a permanent Scots Militia, rendered unnecessary any further organisation on a large scale of this...
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