• The Suffolk Militia was an auxiliary military force in the county of Suffolk on the East Coast of England. From their formal organisation as Trained bands...
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  • The West Suffolk Militia was an auxiliary military unit in the English county of Suffolk in East Anglia. First organised during the Seven Years' War it...
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  • The 'East Suffolk Militia was an auxiliary military unit in the English county of Suffolk in East Anglia. First organised as one of two regiments in the...
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    Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    personal command of the West Suffolk Militia as its Colonel. The militia remained on active service until 1762. The militia was called out again after the...
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  • coronation of Charles II. In the same year he became colonel of the Suffolk Militia Horse. On 28 September 1663 he was created M.A. of Oxford, and M.A...
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  • Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquess Cornwallis (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    fourteen years later. On 26 May 1803 he was appointed Colonel of the East Suffolk Militia, and continued in command until his death. Lord Cornwallis married...
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  • East Coast of England from 1558 until they were reconstituted as the Suffolk Militia in 1662. They were periodically embodied for home defence, for example...
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    Connecticut militia Bedford Flag Saybrook militia Suffolk militia Major's regiment Suffolk militia Lieutenant colonel's regiment Suffolk militia Colonel's...
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  • Lord Augustus Hervey (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    were his brothers. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the West Suffolk Militia (of which his father was Honorary Colonel, and in which his uncle and...
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    1st Battalion 2nd Battalion Militia 3rd (Militia) Battalion based in Bury St Edmunds, former West Suffolk Militia 4th (Militia) Battalion based in Ely, former...
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    Henry FitzRoy, 5th Duke of Grafton (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    appointed Colonel of the East Suffolk Militia, but on 24 May 1830 he transferred to the vacant colonelcy of the West Suffolk Militia, which his father and grandfather...
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    George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    created United States. He succeeded his father as Colonel of the West Suffolk Militia on 2 June 1780 at the age of 20 and retained the command until 1808...
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  • Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    Admiralty and Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, in which capacity he personally served as Colonel of the Suffolk Militia Horse in 1692. He succeeded his father...
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  • Army. It later became a battalion of the Suffolk Regiment until its final disbandment in 1908. The English militia was descended from the Anglo-Saxon Fyrd...
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  • Gerald Cadogan, 6th Earl Cadogan (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    In July 1897 he was appointed a captain in the 3rd (West Suffolk Militia) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. In January 1900 he was seconded for active service...
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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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    Frederick Hervey, 2nd Marquess of Bristol (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    He was appointed Colonel of the disembodied West Suffolk Militia on 25 March 1846. When the Militia was revived in 1853 he commanded the regiment at its...
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  • This is a list of active and armed militia organizations in the United States. While the two largest militias are the Oath Keepers and the 3 Percenters...
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    Frederick Hervey, 3rd Marquess of Bristol (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    Cambridge in 1856. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the West Suffolk Militia (commanded by his father) on 14 December 1854. From 1859 until 1864...
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    Sir Edward Greene, 1st Baronet (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    narrowly defeated by the Liberal Party candidate. He was High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1897. He did not stand for parliament again until the 1900 general election...
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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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    Benjamin Lincoln (category Militia generals in the American Revolution)
    constable at 21, and in 1755 he joined the 3rd Regiment of the Suffolk County militia (where his father was colonel) as an adjutant. In 1756, at the age...
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  • Francis Vernon, 1st Earl of Shipbrook (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    the militia was reconstituted under threat of French invasion during the Seven Years' War, Vernon was appointed Colonel of the 2nd or East Suffolk Battalion...
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    Henry Bunbury (caricaturist) (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    social position (he was commissioned as lieutenant-colonel of the West Suffolk Militia on 26 August 1788, and was appointed equerry to the Duke of York and...
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  • Lord Alfred Hervey (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    1848. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the disembodied West Suffolk Militia (commanded by his elder brother the 2nd Marquess) on 4 July 1831, and...
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    John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    acrophobic and to suffer from seasickness. French joined the Suffolk Artillery Militia in November 1870 where he was expected to put in about two months...
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    Sir John Rous, 1st Baronet (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    answer for his prolonged non-attendance. He commanded a regiment of the Suffolk Militia during the Second Dutch War. Rous married firstly Anne Bacon, daughter...
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  • Philip Skippon (1641–1691) (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    of Suffolk Militia. Skippon married twice: first, in 1669, to Amy (died 1676), daughter and coheir of Francis Brewster of Wrentham Hall, Suffolk (where...
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  • of the Affleck baronets (1804–1854) Gilbert Affleck (fl. 1812) in Suffolk Militia This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same...
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    Brampton Gurdon of Letton (category Suffolk Militia officers)
    Ive, 'The Local Dimensions of Defence: the Standing Army and Militia in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, 1649–1660', Cambridge University PhD Thesis, 1987...
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