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    The Surrey Militia was an auxiliary military force in Surrey, England. From their formal organisation as trained bands in 1558 until their final service...
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  • The 1st Royal Surrey Militia, later the 3rd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment was an auxiliary regiment raised in Surrey in the Home Counties of England...
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  • The 2nd Royal Surrey Militia, later the 3rd Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) was an auxiliary regiment raised in Surrey in the Home counties...
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  • (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot, the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot, the 1st Royal Surrey Militia and the 3rd Royal Surrey Militia. In 1959, after service in the...
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  • The 3rd Royal Surrey Militia, later the 4th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment was an auxiliary regiment raised 1853 in Surrey in the Home counties of England...
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  • a national force or 'Perfect Militia' answering to the monarch rather than local officials. In 1638 the reformed Surrey Trained Bands totalled 1500 men...
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    William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace (category Surrey Militia officers)
    lieu of Noel. Lord Lovelace was appointed Colonel of the 2nd Royal Surrey Militia on 14 August 1852. He resigned this command on 11 April 1870, when he...
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    Francis Grose (category Surrey Militia officers)
    career, this time in the militia, which meant he could avoid distant postings. He was commissioned into the Surrey Militia as lieutenant and adjutant...
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    Kilkenny Militia (Kilkenny), King's County Militia (Parsonstown), Limerick County Militia (Limerick) 2nd Brigade (Red Hill) 1st Royal Surrey Militia (Richmond...
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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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    Arthur Onslow, 3rd Earl of Onslow (category Surrey Militia officers)
    Arthur George Onslow, 3rd Earl of Onslow (25 October 1777-October 1870) was a British peer. He was the eldest child of the 2nd Earl and his wife Arabella...
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    Benjamin Handley Geary (category Surrey Militia officers)
    that he was born in Surrey. Batchelor & Matson 2011, p. 75. Officers' service records (1899–1915), 4th East Surrey (3rd Surrey Militia), The National Archives...
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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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  • English militia commander and politician, Member of Parliament for Surrey in 1812–13. He was the son of Thomas Sutton (died 1789) of Molesey, Surrey, and...
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    Thomas Onslow, 2nd Earl of Onslow (category Surrey Militia officers)
    in 1796. He was appointed Colonel of the 1st Surrey Supplementary Militia (later 2nd Royal Surrey Militia) on 2 January 1797 on the recommendation of his...
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  • George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow (category Surrey Militia officers)
    1754 to 1761 and for Surrey from 1761 to 1774. On 3 March 1759 he was commissioned as lieutenant-colonel of the Surrey Militia which his kinsman Richard...
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    Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner (category Surrey Militia officers)
    commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the new 3rd Royal Surrey Militia, based in Kingston upon Thames. On his retirement from this command...
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    2nd Battalion appearing as extras. A 3rd (Militia) Battalion was formed from the former 2nd Royal Surrey Militia, with headquarters at Guildford. The Battalion...
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  • county regiment of West Surrey, and one pre-existent militia and four volunteer battalions of West Surrey were integrated into the structure of the Queen's...
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  • William Faviell (category Surrey Militia officers)
    retirement in 1945. Faviell was commissioned into the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment in November 1900. He received a commission in the...
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    Captain William Henry Bacchus (1782–1849, originally of the 2nd Royal Surrey Militia) and his son William Henry Bacchus junior (1820–87) also brought sheep...
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    England in London. Between 1810 and 1814 Montefiore was part of the Surrey Militia. In 1815, he again bought a broker's licence, and briefly operated a...
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    Richard Onslow, 3rd Baron Onslow (category Surrey Militia officers)
    1740. He was the son of Thomas Onslow, 2nd Baron Onslow of Clandon Park, Surrey and educated at Eton College (1725-8) and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge...
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  • Thomas Cranley Onslow (category Surrey Militia officers)
    15 March 1812, he succeeded his father as Colonel of the 2nd Royal Surrey Militia, a position he held until his resignation on 14 August 1852. Burke's:...
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    The Norfolk Militia was an auxiliary military force in the English county of Norfolk in East Anglia. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in...
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  • Richard Onslow (Parliamentarian) (category Surrey Militia officers)
    Onslow was the younger son of Sir Edward Onslow of Knowle (in Cranleigh), Surrey, and his wife Isabel (Elizabeth), daughter of Sir Thomas Shirley of Wiston...
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  • The Royal Tyrone Militia, later the Royal Tyrone Fusiliers, was an Irish militia regiment raised in 1793 for home defence and internal security during...
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  • Herbert Harington (category Surrey Militia officers)
    for two years. After joining the 4th (3rd Royal Surrey Militia) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, a militia battalion, as a second lieutenant in 1886, Harington...
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  • companies to 100 men each. In May 1798 the Bedfordshire Militia was distributed across Kent, Surrey and Sussex, with headquarters at Tunbridge Wells. The...
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    George Holme Sumner (category Surrey Militia officers)
    School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He served as an officer of the Surrey Militia. "HOLME SUMNER (formerly SUMNER), George (1760-1838), of Hatchlands...
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