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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were linked with the neighbouring Bedfordshire Regiment and went on active service during the Second Boer War. The Militia were converted into the Special...
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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (category Bedfordshire Militia officers)
and in Continental Europe, and held commission as Captain in the Bedfordshire Militia in 1810. During his continental travels, Russell visited Spain where...
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Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock (category Bedfordshire Militia officers)
the Duke, as Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, commissioned the 19-year-old Marquess as Colonel of the Bedfordshire Militia, which was being reformed for...
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Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford (category Bedfordshire Militia officers)
He was commissioned as a Major in the part-time 3rd (Bedfordshire Militia) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, on 1 October 1893, and promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel...
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Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford (category Bedfordshire Militia officers)
appointed joint Lieutenant-Colonel (with Samuel Whitbread) of the 1st Bedfordshire Local Militia in 1808. He entered the British House of Commons in 1809, sitting...
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Sir John Osborn, 5th Baronet (category Bedfordshire Militia officers)
Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire appointed him as Colonel of the Bedfordshire Militia after his predecessor was removed following a court of enquiry. As...
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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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Samuel Whitbread (1764–1815) (category Bedfordshire Militia officers)
with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1808 this became the 1st Bedfordshire Local Militia and he shared the command with Lt-Col the Marquess of Tavistock...
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Burgoyne, Bart, Regimental Records of the Bedfordshire Militia 1759–1884, London: W.H. Allen, 1884. W.Y. Carman, 'Militia Uniforms 1780', Journal of the Society...
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James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (category Bedfordshire Militia officers)
George Stuart-Wortley (1783–1813) Appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Bedfordshire Militia in 1776, he raised the 92nd Regiment of Foot in 1779, and was appointed...
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The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment was the final title of a line infantry regiment of the British Army that was originally formed in 1688. After...
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Oliver Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill (category Bedfordshire Militia officers)
Lieutenant of Bedfordshire. On his return to England in 1906 he was commissioned as a Major in the 3rd (Bedfordshire Militia) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment...
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William Beecher (died 1694) (category Bedfordshire Militia officers)
Bedfordshire. He succeeded his father by 1659. He was J.P. for Bedfordshire from March 1660 to 1680. He was commissioner for militia for Bedfordshire...
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James Ogilvie-Grant, 11th Earl of Seafield (category Bedfordshire Militia officers)
He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, the Bedfordshire Regiment, on 21 June 1902. He fought in World War I as a...
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Foot became The Bedfordshire Regiment in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, five pre-existent militia and volunteer battalions...
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John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory (category Bedfordshire Militia officers)
Bedfordshire from 1771 to 1818. He had been appointed a captain in the Bedfordshire Militia when it was reformed in 1760 during the Seven Years' War, and assumed...
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Bedfordshire is an English ceremonial county which lies between approximately 25 miles and 55 miles (or approximately 40 and 90 kilometres) north of central...
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203–6. Lt-Col Sir John M. Burgoyne, Bart, Regimental Records of the Bedfordshire Militia 1759–1884, London: W.H. Allen, 1884. C.G. Cruickshank, Elizabeth's...
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Machine). Lt-Col Sir John M. Burgoyne, Bart, Regimental Records of the Bedfordshire Militia 1759–1884, London: W.H. Allen, 1884. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage...
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first chief constable was Captain Thomas Johnnes Smith, late of the Bedfordshire Militia. The first full Cheshire Police Committee met at the Crewe Arms Hotel...
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St Andrew St John, 14th Baron St John of Bletso (category Bedfordshire Militia officers)
became its Lieutenant-Colonel. When the regiment became the 2nd Bedfordshire Local Militia in 1808 he continued as its joint-lieutenant-colonel. St Andrew...
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Sir George Osborn, 4th Baronet (category Bedfordshire Militia officers)
of 17, he was commissioned as Major and second-in-command of the Bedfordshire Militia, before he transferred to the regular army. He was elected on 24...
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1953. Lt-Col Sir John M. Burgoyne, Bart, Regimental Records of the Bedfordshire Militia 1759–1884, London: W.H. Allen, 1884. C.G. Cruickshank, Elizabeth's...
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Sir Richard Gilpin, 1st Baronet (category Bedfordshire Militia officers)
of Richard Gilpin of Hockliffe, who was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Bedfordshire Militia, and his second wife, Sarah Wilkinson, fourth daughter of William...
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Cleveland Greenway (category Bedfordshire Militia officers)
transferred, as a lieutenant, from the 3rd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment (later the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment) to the King's (Liverpool)...
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Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry (redirect from Royal Glamorgan Militia)
Light companies) of militia regiments in the Southern District. The Grenadier Company of the Glamorgans joined those of the Bedfordshire, Denbighshire, Derbyshire...
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Hurdis Ravenshaw (category Bedfordshire Militia officers)
there joined the part-time militia on 2 April 1887 as a Second lieutenant in the 3rd (Bedfordshire Militia) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment; he was promoted...
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Series. Lt-Col Sir John M. Burgoyne, Bart, Regimental Records of the Bedfordshire Militia 1759–1884, London: W.H. Allen, 1884. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage...
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The Bedfordshire Yeomanry was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army. Serving intermittently between 1797 and 1827, it was re-raised in 1901 for the Second...
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