The Royal Wiltshire Militia was an auxiliary regiment of the British Army from the English county of Wiltshire. From their formal organisation as Trained...
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The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (RWY) was a Yeomanry regiment of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom established in 1794. It was disbanded...
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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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was signed. With the war over, the 2nd Wiltshires returned to the England in 1903. The 3rd (Royal Wiltshire Militia) Battalion was embodied in January 1900...
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Battalion, the Northamptonshire Regiment) 33rd, or Royal Wiltshire Militia (later 3rd Battalion, the Wiltshire Regiment) This should not be confused with the...
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The Royal Berkshire Militia was an auxiliary military regiment in the county of Berkshire in Southern England. From their formal organisation as Trained...
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Pinkett of Trafalgar Square, Barnstaple. He was a lieutenant in the Royal Wiltshire Militia when he was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1861 and was called to the...
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Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (category Wiltshire Militia officers)
Hampshire Militia blocked Monmouth's advance into Wiltshire. The Wiltshire Militia then accompanied the Royal army to Bridgwater in pursuit of the rebels....
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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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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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Frederick Methuen, 2nd Baron Methuen (category Wiltshire Militia officers)
the Royal Wiltshire Militia in 1846, and became Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the regiment in 1859. The regiment became the 3rd (Royal Wiltshire Militia)...
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antiquary. Herbert was educated at Eton until 1789. Herbert joined the Royal Wiltshire Militia as captain in 1790 and when the West Somerset Yeomanry was raised...
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Sharington Talbot (category Wiltshire Militia officers)
Sharington Talbot (1656-85), of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, was an English Member of Parliament (MP) and Militia officer who fought against Monmouth's rebels...
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Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
"Library and Archive". Royal Society. Retrieved 19 October 2010.[permanent dead link] Bryn Owen, History of the Welsh Militia and Volunteer Corps 1757–1908...
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Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury (category Wiltshire Militia officers)
the Berkshire Militia as an ensign. In 1796 he was appointed captain of the Marlborough Yeomanry. He was promoted to colonel the Wiltshire Yeomanry in 1797...
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British Army order of precedence (section Household Cavalry, Royal Armoured Corps and Infantry orders of precedence)
line. Militia and Army Reserve units take precedence after Regular units with the exception of The Honourable Artillery Company and The Royal Monmouthshire...
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(Royal North Gloucestershire Regiment of Militia) 3rd Battalion, the Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment) (Royal Wiltshire Regiment of Militia) Baker...
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Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
Northamptonshire Regiment of Militia on 27 September 1779. On 30 November 1780, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant for Wiltshire, and, on 19 November 1791...
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The Royal North Gloucestershire Militia (RNGM), later the 4th (Militia) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment was a Militia regiment raised in the county...
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George Brudenell-Bruce, 6th Marquess of Ailesbury (category Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry officers)
Borderers Militia) Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry; the Middlesex Yeomanry; the Wiltshire Regiment; and the Royal Field...
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Monaghan Militia (Monaghan), Louth Militia (Dundalk), Longford Militia (Longford) 2nd Brigade (Warminster) Royal Wiltshire Militia (Devizes), Royal Buckinghamshire...
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the Militia Artillery was to man coastal defences and fortifications in wartime, relieving the Royal Artillery (RA) for active service. The Royal Artillery...
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Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) which was again amalgamated, on 27 July 1994, with the Gloucestershire Regiment to create the Royal Gloucestershire...
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Edward St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset (category Wiltshire Militia officers)
as the Isles of Staffa and Iona in the Hebrides. When the Wiltshire Supplementary Militia was embodied in 1797 he was appointed as its Colonel; it was...
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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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Wiltshire Police, formerly known as Wiltshire Constabulary, is the territorial police force responsible for policing the county of Wiltshire (including...
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William Pain (category Wiltshire Militia officers)
initially serving part-time in the Royal Wiltshire Militia, and in October of that year as a Lieutenant of Militia he passed the qualifying examination...
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re-occupied Lyme and Taunton behind him. Finding the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Militia also blocking the routes into those counties, Monmouth was unable...
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William Northey (died 1770) (category Wiltshire Militia officers)
leading and eloquent member of the opposition in parliament. When the Wiltshire Militia was embodied on 8 November 1758 Northey was commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel...
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Edward Henslow (category Wiltshire Militia officers)
Mere, Wiltshire on 19 March 1879 and joined the British Army as a second lieutenant in the 3rd (Royal Wiltshire Militia) Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment...
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