The Somerset Militia was an auxiliary military force in the county of Somerset in South West England. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in...

The 1st Somerset Militia was an auxiliary military unit in the county of Somerset in South West England. First organised during the Seven Years' War it...

The 2nd Somerset Militia was an auxiliary military regiment in the county of Somerset in South West England. First organised during the Seven Years' War...

South West England from 1558 until they were reconstituted as the Somerset Militia in 1662. They were periodically embodied for home defence, for example...

were largely Tory. He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st Somerset Militia on 23 June 1759 when it was embodied for fulltime service, and commanded...

3rd Battalion (formerly 1st Somerset Light Infantry Militia) 4th Battalion (formerly 2nd Somerset Light Infantry Militia) 1st Volunteer Battalion (formerly...

the King's Own Royal Tower Hamlets Militia (now the 7th Battalion Rifle Brigade). For more than 60 years, Somerset made his home in Enfield Town, Middlesex...

President, Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort carried out a tour of inspection of the Welsh militia in 1684, when the Brecknockshire Militia consisted of...

The British Militia was the principal military reserve force of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Militia units were repeatedly raised in Great Britain during...

Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester (25 December 1660 – 13 July 1698) was an English nobleman and politician. He was the eldest surviving son of Henry...

Several rebellion leaders, including Harmon Husband, lived in Somerset. The federal militia sent to put down the rebellion worked from its headquarters...

expedition the following year, Lunsford commanded a regiment raised from the Somerset Trained Bands. His regiment fought at the Battle of Newburn on 28 August...

School. Boyle was commissioned a lieutenant in the 4th (2nd Somerset Militia) Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, on 15 April 1882, and resigned his commission...

Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort KG (16 October 1744 – 11 October 1803) was an English courtier and politician. He was styled the Marquess of Worcester...

1785. On 27 May 1787, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the 1st Somerset Militia, (commanded by his father) and was promoted from captain-lieutenant...

Army and Militia in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, 1649–1660', Cambridge University PhD Thesis, 1987. W.J.W. Kerr, Records of the 1st Somerset Militia (3rd Bn...

during the Seven Years' War, he was commissioned as major of the 1st Somerset Militia, which was embodied for fulltime service in home defence on 3 July...

ISBN 978-1-84342-197-9. W.J.W. Kerr, Records of the 1st Somerset Militia (3rd Bn. Somerset L.I.), Aldershot:Gale & Polden, 1930. Lord Macaulay, The History...

Temple in 1622. Popham was a prominent figure and Justice of the Peace in Somerset. In April 1640 he was elected Member of Parliament for Bath in the Short...

Continental Regiment Spencer's Additional Continental Regiment Militia Burlington Militia Hunterdon Militia Middlesex Militia Monmouth Militia Somerset Militia...

fought in the First Boer War. He was first commissioned into the 2nd Somerset Militia as a sub-lieutenant in March 1877, but in October of that year he was...

War he was Lieutenant-Colonel of Lord Paulet's Somerset Trained Band, the 800-strong force of local militia. However, Paulet was a committed Royalist and...

was brigaded with the 11th and 22nd Foot and the Northumberland and Somerset Militia under Maj-Gen William Crosbie. While at Colchester the War Office ordered...

William Strode, Jr (11 January 1589, Shepton Mallet, Somerset – 20 December 1666, Barrington Court, Somerset) — called William Strode of Barrington to distinguish...

Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett (1585 – 20 March 1649), of Hinton St George, Somerset, was an English sailor and politician who sat in the House of Commons between...

Forman of New Jersey, who accepted. Forman had formerly been a New Jersey militia leader. Washington also offered command of an additional regiment to Oliver...

appointed Lord Lieutenant of Somerset, a post he held until his death. He was also a Recorder of Bridgwater. The East Devon Militia was again embodied, under...

Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort, KG (22 December 1766 – 23 November 1835), styled Marquess of Worcester until 1803, was a British politician. Somerset...

Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (died 29 August 1791), Colonel of the Somerset Militia, who married Mary Knight, 2nd daughter of Edward Knight of Wolverley...

1621 and 1642. Rodney was the son of Sir John Rodney of Rodney Stoke, Somerset, and his wife Jane Seymour, daughter of Sir Henry Seymour and niece of...