• The Dorset Militia was an auxiliary military force in the county of Dorsetshire in South West England. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands...
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  • called out the militia forces of Dorset, Somerset, and Devon on 13 June, while the regulars of the Royal Army were assembled. The Dorset Militia reacted quickly...
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    The Dorset Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958, being the county regiment of Dorset. Until 1951, it...
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    The Keep, Dorchester (category Museums in Dorchester, Dorset)
    Regiment, the Dorset Regiment, the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, The Dorset Yeomanry, Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry, The Dorset Militia, The Royal Devon...
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  • The Dorset Trained Bands were a part-time militia force recruited from Dorsetshire in South West England, first organised in 1558. They were periodically...
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    of Dorset (also known as the Dorset Cross, and Saint Wite's Cross) is the flag of the English county of Dorset. It was chosen as the flag of Dorset on...
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  • Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury (category Dorset Militia officers)
    1863. On 6 February 1862, he was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel of the Dorset Militia, a position he held until 1 June 1872. On 12 May 1875, he was appointed...
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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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    George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers (category Dorset Militia officers)
    the accession of George III. Upon the reorganisation of the Dorset Militia under the Militia Act 1757, Pitt was commissioned Colonel of the Regiment, and...
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    Arnold Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle (category Dorset Militia officers)
    July 1902. He was commissioned as a Sub-lieutenant in the part-time Dorset Militia in 1877 and the following year transferred to the Scots Guards as a...
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  • Robert Blucke (category Dorset Militia officers)
    Air Vice Marshal Robert Stewart Blucke, CB, CBE, DSO, AFC & Bar (22 June 1897 – 2 October 1988) was a Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief...
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    Bridport (redirect from Bridport, Dorset)
    Bridport, where they encountered 1,200 men from the local royalist Dorset militia. The skirmish ended with retreat of the rebel force, although many of...
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    Bridport, where they encountered 1,200 men from the local royalist Dorset militia. The skirmish ended in a Royalist victory, with the retreat of Grey...
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  • Thomas Chafin (1650–1691) (category Dorset Militia officers)
    Thomas Chafin (1650–1691), of Chettle, Dorset, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1679 and 1691. Chafin commanded a troop...
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  • 1613. He was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset in 1634. In 1621, Trenchard was elected Member of Parliament for Dorset. In April 1640, he was elected MP for...
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    Claude Scudamore Jarvis (category Dorset Militia officers)
    was in April 1902 appointed a second lieutenant in the 3rd (Dorset Militia) Battalion, Dorset Regiment. He married Mabel Jane Hodson, daughter of a member...
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    of Local Militia on 27 April 1813 and on 26 July the same year he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the regiment. Lord Dorset died in February...
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  • Wilfred Ernest Young (category Dorset Militia officers)
    Wilfred Ernest Young Born (1891-12-28)28 December 1891 Dorchester, Dorset, England Allegiance United Kingdom Service/branch British Army Royal Air Force...
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    Thomas Erle (category Dorset Militia officers)
    On 27 May 1685, he was made Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset. Erle took command of the East Dorset militia as major, and fought as a volunteer at the Battle...
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    Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset KG PC (18 January 1688 – 10 October 1765) was an English peer and politician who served as Lord President...
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  • James Fox-Lane (category Dorset Militia officers)
    Lords. On 5 May 1790, Fox-Lane was commissioned a lieutenant in the Dorset Militia, of which his father-in-law was colonel. Although he had joined Brooks's...
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  • against the Royal army's communications to London, Finally the Devon and Dorset Militia reoccupied Lyme and Taunton behind Monmouth, hemming him into north-west...
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  • Northamptonshire 5 John Calcraft (the younger): Wareham 4; Rochester 4; Dorset 10 Winston Churchill: Oldham 4; Manchester North West 1; Dundee 1; Epping...
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  • Charles Ross (British Army officer, born 1864) (category Dorset Militia officers)
    and, after serving as an officer in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment (later the Dorset Regiment), into which he was commissioned in...
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  • Robert Coker (category Dorset Militia officers)
    between 1656 and 1660. Coker was the son of William Coker, of Mappowder, Dorset. He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford on 23 October 1635, aged 18 and...
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    Edward Digby, 2nd Earl Digby (category Dorset Militia officers)
    Lord Lieutenant of Dorset for nearly fifty years, from 1808 to 1856. On 20 May 1824, he appointed himself Colonel of the Dorset Militia, in which he had...
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  • Edward Boswell (category Dorset Militia officers)
    was a lieutenant in the local Dorset Militia, and served several minor governmental offices in his home county of Dorset. Boswell also published two antiquarian...
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    Edward Digby, 10th Baron Digby (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Dorset)
    Coldstream Guards. On 25 April 1891 he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Dorset Militia, and on 28 November 1900 of the 1st Dorsetshire Royal Garrison Artillery...
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    George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers (category Dorset Militia officers)
    did not stand in the 1790 election. Pitt was commissioned into the Dorset Militia, of which his father was colonel of from 1757 to 1798. He was promoted...
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    Capt. Parker Musketeer Battalion - Col. Percy Kirke Somerset Militia Battalion Dorset Militia Battalion Rebel forces - under the command of the Duke of Monmouth...
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