• The Cambridgeshire Militia was an auxiliary military regiment in the English county of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. From their formal organisation...
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    Oliver Cromwell (category Cambridgeshire Militia officers)
    experience was in the trained bands, the local county militia. He recruited a cavalry troop in Cambridgeshire after blocking a valuable shipment of silver plate...
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  • Valentine Walton (category Cambridgeshire Militia officers)
    Valentine Walton (c. 1594–1661) was an English politician, a member of the Parliamentarian faction in the English Civil War, and one of the regicides 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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    Charles Philip Yorke (category Cambridgeshire Militia officers)
    Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridgeshire from 1790 to 1810. He was commissioned as an officer in the Cambridgeshire Militia in 1793. He was promoted to...
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  • James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (category Cambridgeshire Militia officers)
    England on 15 June 1673, colonel commandant of three regiments of Cambridgeshire Militia in 1678, and was hereditary visitor of Magdalene College, Cambridge...
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    Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke (category Cambridgeshire Militia officers)
    Earl of Hardwicke, as Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, appointed him as Colonel of the Cambridgeshire Militia, a command which he held for many years...
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  • Francis Osborne, 1st Baron Godolphin (category Cambridgeshire Militia officers)
    the County of Buckingham. He was commissioned as a Captain in the Cambridgeshire Militia on 15 January 1831. Lord Godolphin married the Honourable Elizabeth...
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  • Frederick Dugmore (category Cambridgeshire Militia officers)
    military career when he purchased the rank of lieutenant in the Cambridgeshire Militia in May 1853. He transferred to the regular army in June 1857, whne...
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    George William Manby (category Cambridgeshire Militia officers)
    21 April 1788, he obtained a commission as a Lieutenant in the Cambridgeshire Militia where he eventually gained the rank of captain. He left the regiment...
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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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  • West Suffolk Militia. It comprised: 1st and 2nd Battalions, 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot West Suffolk Militia Cambridgeshire Militia at Ely 1st...
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  • Sir Francis Russell, 2nd Baronet, of Chippenham (category Cambridgeshire Militia officers)
    heir of Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, was returned as a member for Cambridgeshire in the Long Parliament. He sided with Parliament in its dispute with...
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  • Thomas Bromley, 2nd Baron Montfort (category Cambridgeshire Militia officers)
    who was Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, appointed Montfort Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Cambridgeshire Militia, which was struggling to find...
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    when he stood down. Outside of politics, Adeane was a Major in the Cambridgeshire Militia, a Deputy Lieutenant and a Justice of the Peace. Rayment, Leigh...
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    Battalion Militia 3rd (Militia) Battalion based in Bury St Edmunds, former West Suffolk Militia 4th (Militia) Battalion based in Ely, former Cambridgeshire Militia...
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  • Robert Ogilby (category Cambridgeshire Militia officers)
    College. On leaving, in 1898, he was commissioned into the 4th (Cambridge Militia) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment and in 1900 he transferred to regular service...
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  • Eliot Constantine Yorke (category Cambridgeshire Militia officers)
    Captain in the Cambridgeshire Militia, an Equerry to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh and a Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire. On 11 February...
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    in November the East Norfolks were ordered to exchange with the Cambridgeshire Militia and went back to Yarmouth for its winter quarters, arriving on 5...
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  • The Hertfordshire Militia were assigned to 2nd Brigade of 3rd Division, VII Corps, alongside the Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire Militia. The brigade would...
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  • Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston (category Cambridgeshire Militia officers)
    commissioned as a captain in the Cambridgeshire Militia (commanded by his father and uncle) on 6 March 1803 when the militia were being embodied on the breakdown...
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    Charles Wale (category Cambridgeshire Militia officers)
    married. He therefore went on half-pay and became adjutant of the Cambridgeshire Militia on 4 December 1793. He served with the regiment for three years...
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  • Octavius Duncombe (category Cambridgeshire Militia officers)
    served in the 1st Life Guards and afterwards became Colonel of the Cambridgeshire Militia on 2 August 1852. Duncombe was elected Member of Parliament for...
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  • West Suffolk Militia. It comprised: 1st and 2nd Battalions, 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot West Suffolk Militia Cambridgeshire Militia at Ely 1st...
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    of an Irish family. He spent four years as a lieutenant in the Cambridgeshire Militia and lived for a year in France before embarking on a medical career...
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  • The Bedfordshire Militia, later the Bedfordshire Light Infantry was an auxiliary military regiment in the English county of Bedfordshire. From their formal...
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  • Yeomanry. In 1796 the West Kents were stationed with the Cambridgeshire Militia in Norwich. The militia were accused of a series of robberies in the town, but...
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    roles, notably serving as constituencies and as areas for organising the militia, which was the responsibility of the lord-lieutenant. The county magistrates...
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  • The Lancashire Militia was an auxiliary military force in Lancashire in North West England. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in 1558 and...
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    and organising the militia, overseen by a sheriff. From Tudor times onwards a lord-lieutenant was appointed to oversee the militia, taking some of the...
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