The Hertfordshire Militia was an auxiliary military force in Hertfordshire in South East England. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in 1558...
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James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury (category Hertfordshire Militia officers)
appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 4th (Militia) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, (formerly the Hertfordshire Militia) of which his father was Honorary Colonel...
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the British Armed Forces, five pre-existent militia and volunteer battalions of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire were integrated into the structure of the...
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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (category Hertfordshire Militia officers)
shares. From 1868 he was Honorary Colonel of the Hertfordshire Militia, which became the 4th (Militia) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, in 1881, and which...
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James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury (category Hertfordshire Militia officers)
his father as colonel of the Hertfordshire Militia. During a period of unrest in 1830 he raised the South Hertfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry and commanded...
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of Foot Huntingdonshire Rifle Militia at Huntingdon Bedfordshire Light Infantry Militia at Bedford Hertfordshire Militia at Hertford 1st Administrative...
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James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury (category Hertfordshire Militia officers)
Lieutenant of Hertfordshire between 1771 and 1823. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1793. He served as Colonel of the Hertfordshire Militia in home defence...
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3rd (Militia) Battalion (formerly Bedfordshire Light Infantry Militia) 4th (Militia) battalion (formerly Hertfordshire Militia) 1st Hertfordshire Rifle...
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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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Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex (category Hertfordshire Militia officers)
between 1691 and 1702. As Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire he was Colonel of the Hertfordshire Militia in 1697. He was Colonel of the 4th Dragoons between...
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John Stanhope Collings-Wells (category Hertfordshire Militia officers)
4th (Hertfordshire Militia) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment on 17 September 1904 and promoted to captain on 3 January 1907. The part-time Militia was...
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Robert Smith-Dorrien (category Hertfordshire Militia officers)
Justice of the Peace. He was a lieutenant colonel, serving in the Hertfordshire Militia and also a captain in both the 3rd Light Dragoons and the 16th Lancers...
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Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire (category Hertfordshire Militia officers)
Ireland during this period. He was commissioned a captain in the Hertfordshire Militia on 22 March 1775, and a lieutenant-colonel in the regiment on 4...
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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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hats. Insubordination was rife among prisoners. A force of Shropshire Militia, a battalion of army reserve and a volunteer force from Peterborough were...
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Torquhil Matheson (category Hertfordshire Militia officers)
second lieutenant into the 4th (Militia) Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment (later the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment) on 15 December 1888...
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Elstree (redirect from Elstree, Hertfordshire)
School, 1978. John Hill, Hertfordshire Militia Lists: Elstree & Shenley, Issue ML 102 of Militia Series, Publ. Hertfordshire Family & Population History...
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clear if he took a degree at Cambridge University. He served in the Hertfordshire Militia and was also a Justice of the Peace for the county; as landowner...
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Sir John Sebright, 7th Baronet (category Hertfordshire Militia officers)
was appointed High Sheriff of Hertfordshire for 1797–98. He commanded the Western Battalion, Hertfordshire Local Militia, when it was raised at St Albans...
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George Marten (cricketer, born 1840) (category Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment officers)
studying at Oxford, Marten was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Hertfordshire Militia in March 1861. A year after graduating from Oxford in 1863, Marten...
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Thomas Brand, 20th Baron Dacre (category Hertfordshire Militia officers)
volunteers were replaced by the Local Militia, and Brand commanded the Midland Battalion, Hertfordshire Local Militia, based at Hitchin. Dacre entered Parliament...
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William Franks (cricketer) (category Hertfordshire Militia officers)
lieutenant and justice of the peace for Hertfordshire, in addition to being a captain in the Hertfordshire Militia. Franks died at St Leonards-on-Sea in...
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Abingdon School). On 8 November 1859, aged 21, he resigned from the Hertfordshire Militia. In 1877 he was promoted from Captain to Adjutant of the 54th Foot...
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Bechuanaland Rifles, and the Mounted Infantry Company of the 4th (Hertfordshire Militia) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, with pom-poms and Maxims, under...
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house) when the Militia, Yeomanry and Volunteers of the county were reviewed by King George III on 13 June 1800. The Yeomanry of Hertfordshire seem to have...
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Nicolson Calvert (1764–1841) (category Hertfordshire Militia officers)
1826, and for the county of Hertfordshire from 1826 to 1834. He commanded the Eastern Battalion, Hertfordshire Local Militia, when it was raised at Hertford...
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Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman (category Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment officers)
King's College, Cambridge. He also joined the 4th Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire militia in 1894 and served in the Second Boer War. He was awarded the Distinguished...
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merchant, planter, politician and military officer. Born in Tring, Hertfordshire, he subsequently emigrated to the English colony of Virginia and became...
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rector of Amersham. He was commissioned a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Hertfordshire Militia of 1794. The borough of Amersham was a "Rotten Borough", in the...
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Royal Denbigh Rifles (redirect from Denbighshire Horse Militia)
in garrison at Dover, this time stationed in the Castle with the Hertfordshire Militia. By 1 September the regiment, with 348 men in 5 companies, under...
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