The Royal Berkshire Militia was an auxiliary military regiment in the county of Berkshire in Southern England. From their formal organisation as Trained...
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The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1959. The regiment...
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Alexander Buller Turner (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
Turner was born at home in Reading, Berkshire on 22 May 1893 to Charles Turner, later a major in the Royal Berkshire Regiment, and his second wife Jane...
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John Anthony Fonblanque (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
Brewer, 1986. Emma Elizabeth Thoyts, History of the Royal Berkshire Militia (Now 3rd Battalion Royal Berks Regiment), Sulhamstead, Berks, 1897/Scholar Select...
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Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
continued to serve as Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, Norfolk and Surrey, and ex-officio colonel of the Berkshire Militia under William and Mary. The first HMS...
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Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
December 2005. Emma Elizabeth Thoyts, History of the Royal Berkshire Militia (Now 3rd Battalion Royal Berks Regiment), Sulhamstead, Berks, 1897/Scholar Select...
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William Craven, 6th Baron Craven (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
Cottage, Fulham. As Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire from 1786 he also served as Colonel of the Berkshire Militia. His children were: Hon. Maria Margaret...
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of the Royal County of Berkshire, also known as the Berkshire County Council, was the top-tier local government administrative body for Berkshire from 1889...
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Lord Algernon Percy (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
Grenadier Guards. He was Major in the part-time 3rd (Royal Berkshire Militia) Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment from 1881 to 1886. He was also J.P. for...
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Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
Abingdon and the 11th Lord Norris. As Lord Norreys, he entered the Royal Berkshire Militia as a Lieutenant on 12 March 1858, resigned but was then appointed...
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Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
Mowl, p.105 Emma Elizabeth Thoyts, History of the Royal Berkshire Militia (Now 3rd Battalion Royal Berks Regiment), Sulhamstead, Berks, 1897/Scholar Select...
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Clement Saxton (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
(Abingdon). p. 11. Emma Elizabeth Thoyts, History of the Royal Berkshire Militia (Now 3rd Battalion Royal Berks Regiment), Sulhamstead, Berks, 1897/Scholar Select...
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Mortimer George Thoyts (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
Sheriff of Berkshire and a captain in the Royal Berkshire Militia. Mortimer was born on 6 November 1804 at Sulhamstead House in Berkshire, the only son...
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Richard Griffin, 3rd Baron Braybrooke (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
his father, by Royal licence the surname of Griffin in lieu of his patronymic. He served as a captain in the Royal Berkshire Militia 1803–4. Braybrooke...
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Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 3rd (Royal Berkshire Militia) Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, on 14 May 1887 and was promoted to lieutenant...
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Richard Neville (soldier) (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
War Project. Emma Elizabeth Thoyts, History of the Royal Berkshire Militia (Now 3rd Battalion Royal Berks Regiment), Sulhamstead, Berks, 1897/Scholar Select...
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William John Bates van de Weyer (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
College, Sandhurst, he joined the part-time 3rd (Royal Berkshire Militia) Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment – from which his father had recently retired...
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Alban Arnold (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
second lieutenant into the 3rd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment in September 1914. He joined the Royal Fusiliers shortly after, and saw action with...
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Sir Robert Mowbray, 2nd Baronet (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
degree in 1872. He was gazetted as a lieutenant in the part-time Royal Berkshire Militia on 1 June 1872, but he never joined the regiment for its annual...
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Regiment) 7th, or Royal Berkshire Militia (later 3rd Battalion, the Royal Berkshire Regiment) 45th, or 1st Royal Lancashire Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's...
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Elliot Morres (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
served in the British Army, being commissioned as an ensign in the Royal Berkshire Militia in January 1855. In May of the same year, he transferred to the...
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Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
December 2017. Emma Elizabeth Thoyts, History of the Royal Berkshire Militia (Now 3rd Battalion Royal Berks Regiment), Sulhamstead, Berks, 1897/Scholar Select...
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The Royal East Middlesex Militia was an auxiliary regiment reorganised in Middlesex in the Home counties of England during the 18th Century from earlier...
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William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
University Press. Emma Elizabeth Thoyts, History of the Royal Berkshire Militia (Now 3rd Battalion Royal Berks Regiment), Sulhamstead, Berks, 1897/Scholar Select...
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Howard Vincent (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
politics of the Near East. In 1874, he was commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Militia as a captain. He resigned his commission in November 1875, but...
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John Rhodes (sailor) (category King's Royal Rifle Corps officers)
commissioned as a Second lieutenant in the part-time 3rd (Royal Berkshire Militia) Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, on 7 June 1887 and was promoted to lieutenant...
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George Henry Vansittart (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
year, and for the next three years he was on half-pay and in the Berkshire Militia, which his uncle, Colonel Arthur Vansittart, had previously commanded...
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Christopher Oldfield (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
2018-10-12. Emma Elizabeth Thoyts, History of the Royal Berkshire Militia (Now 3rd Battalion Royal Berks Regiment), Sulhamstead, Berks, 1897/Scholar Select...
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The Brecknockshire Militia, later the Royal Brecknockshire Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county...
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Edward Pleydell-Bouverie (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
a number of his kinsmen, he became an officer in the part-time Royal Berkshire Militia, being commissioned as a captain on 23 February 1838 and was still...
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