The Carnarvonshire Militia, later the Royal Carnarvon Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised in the county of Caernarfonshire (then spelt Carnarvonshire)...
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Militia (United Kingdom) Royal Carnarvon Rifles Royal Denbigh Rifles Royal Flint Rifles Royal Montgomeryshire Militia Royal Welch Fusiliers It is incorrect...
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1873 Royal Anglesey Light Infantry – converted to Engineers in 1877 Royal Flint Rifles Royal Denbigh and Merioneth Rifles Royal Carnarvon Rifles 1st Administrative...
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The Pembrokeshire Militia, later the Royal Pembroke Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county of...
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March 1860 under Capt Pennant Athel Iremonger (also adjutant of the Royal Carnarvon Rifles Militia), disbanded after October 1865 7th (Conway) Carnarvonshire...
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The Denbighshire Militia, later the Royal Denbighshire Rifles was an auxiliary regiment reorganised in the Welsh county of Denbighshire during the 18th...
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The Flintshire Militia, later the Royal Flint Rifles was an auxiliary regiment reorganised in the Welsh county of Flintshire during the 18th century from...
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The Radnorshire Militia, later the Royal Radnor Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursors in the Welsh county of Radnorshire...
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Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (category Carnarvon Militia officers)
Commandant to revive and command the county militia regiment, the Royal Carnarvon Rifles. He commanded the regiment until 1858, when he became its Honorary...
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1st Flintshire Rifle Volunteers (redirect from 60th (Royal Welch Fusiliers) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery)
the 1st Flint & Carnarvon becoming a volunteer battalion of the RWF on 1 July 1881; it was redesignated 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers...
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Griqualand, site of the Kimberley diamond-discoveries. In 1875 the Earl of Carnarvon, the British Colonial Secretary, in an attempt to extend British influence...
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The 7th Royal Lancashire Militia (Rifles) (7th RLM) was an auxiliary regiment raised in the county of Lancashire in North West England just before the...
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Royal Artillery (TA) 59th (4th West Lancashire) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) 61st Carnarvon and Denbigh (Yeomanry) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery...
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facings for royal regiments effectively lapsed. That year, in celebration of his silver jubilee, King George V designated three regiments as royal. In each...
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The Cardiganshire Militia, later the Royal Cardigan Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county of...
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1st Denbighshire Rifle Volunteers (redirect from 4th (Denbighshire) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers)
April 1916 and on 1 September 1916 it absorbed the 5th (Flintshire), 6th (Carnarvon & Anglesey) and 7th (Merionethshire & Montgomeryshire) (Reserve) Bns,...
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Lenah Valley, Bryant spent some of his childhood at their beach home in Carnarvon Bay. In a 2011 interview, his mother recalled that while Bryant was very...
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Cetshwayo's hopes of a negotiated peace. Following the scheme by which Lord Carnarvon had brought about the Confederation of Canada through the 1867 British...
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Section, Royal Corps of Signals, Wrexham 4th (Denbigh) Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers, Wrexham 6th (Carnarvon and Angesley) Battalion, The Royal Welch...
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(Monmouthshire) Army Field Company, Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers 101st (Monmouthshire) Army Field Company, Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers 216th (1st London)...
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Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Baronet Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899 Kaffir (Historical usage in southern...
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King's Own (3rd Staffordshire) Rifle Militia (redirect from The (King's Own) 3rd Staffordshire Militia (Rifles))
took over the 80 miles (130 km) blockhouse line from Victoria Road to Carnarvon, the blockhouses being manned alternately by the North Staffs and by 'Cape...
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Kenneth Cummins (category Royal Navy personnel of World War II)
board. He later served on the steamship SS Macedonia, which brought Lord Carnarvon's body home from Egypt in 1923. In the Second World War, he served as chief...
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fought in 1879 between the British and the Zulu Kingdom. Following Lord Carnarvon's successful introduction of federation in Canada, it was thought that...
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and had 24 members. By the 1870s, the British, and specifically Lord Carnarvon, had adopted the policy of expansionism in South Africa, with the goal...
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support both locally and in the British government. In late 1876 Lord Carnarvon, Colonial Secretary under Benjamin Disraeli, gave Sir Theophilus Shepstone...
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1918 New Year Honours (section Royal Navy)
Bracegirdle, Royal Garrison Arty. (Carnarvon) Sgt. S. Bradshaw, Manchester Reg. (Manchester) Cpl. S. G. Brain, Royal Warwickshire Reg. (Banbury) C.S. Maj...
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Welsh Fusiliers (Carnarvon) Corporal B. Hulme, Royal Engineers (Wilmslow) Sergeant W. Hunt, Royal Fusiliers (Acton) Gunner F. Ideson, Royal Horse Artillery...
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raise a company from his tenants at Althorp. It became the 1st (Althorp Rifles) Northamptonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps with Spencer appointed to command...
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John McCrae (category Queen's Own Rifles of Canada)
skirmishes in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal, including the Carnarvon Expedition and at the Battle of Belfast in August 1900. McCrae returned...
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