The Gloucestershire Militia was a part-time military force in the county of Gloucestershire in the West of England. From their formal organisation as...
47 KB (5,978 words) - 16:43, 8 June 2024
The Royal South Gloucestershire Light Infantry (RSGLI), later the 3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment was a Militia regiment raised in the county...
38 KB (4,669 words) - 17:52, 5 July 2024
battalions of militia, and these were organised in 1763 as the South Gloucestershire Militia based at Gloucester and the North Gloucestershire Militia at Cirencester...
103 KB (13,202 words) - 16:31, 29 July 2024
The Royal North Gloucestershire Militia (RNGM), later the 4th (Militia) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment was a Militia regiment raised in the county...
50 KB (6,208 words) - 19:26, 5 March 2024
Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
for Gloucestershire, Middlesex, Monmouth and Brecon from 1689 to 1690. In 1681 he travelled to the Netherlands. He was appointed Colonel of Militia for...
7 KB (375 words) - 20:00, 19 December 2022
Frederick Berkeley, 5th Earl of Berkeley (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
Gloucestershire, High Steward of Gloucester, Constable of St Briavels, Warden of the Forest of Dean and Colonel of the South Gloucestershire Militia,...
7 KB (839 words) - 15:28, 29 December 2023
Douglas Carnegie (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
was commissioned into the 3rd Battalion (Royal South Gloucestershire Militia), Gloucestershire Regiment, in 1888. He resigned his commission as a major...
5 KB (300 words) - 17:17, 25 March 2024
The British Militia was the principal military reserve force of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Militia units were repeatedly raised in Great Britain during...
18 KB (1,901 words) - 16:25, 4 August 2024
William Berkeley, 1st Earl FitzHardinge (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
South Gloucestershire Light Infantry Militia in 1810 and commanded it until his death. In 1836 he was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, a post...
8 KB (704 words) - 11:40, 12 June 2023
Henry Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
a second lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment (The Royal North Gloucestershire Militia) on 12 February 1896 and was promoted lieutenant...
9 KB (737 words) - 18:51, 12 July 2024
Special Reserve (redirect from Special Reserve (militia))
militia battalions, the Royal South Gloucestershire Militia and the Royal North Gloucestershire Militia, became the regiment's 3rd and 4th (Militia)...
35 KB (4,575 words) - 15:12, 10 August 2024
Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
Maj B.N. Spraggett), The Royal North Gloucester Militia, 2nd Edn, Cirencester: Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard Printing Works, 1914, pp. 41–2. * Col George...
8 KB (683 words) - 15:08, 13 April 2024
Nathaniel Wade (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
1666, was the third son of John Wade of the Wick-house, Arlingham, Gloucestershire. John Wade was a major in Oliver Cromwell's army and governor of the...
6 KB (797 words) - 06:01, 22 March 2024
Nigel Kingscote (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
appointed Honorary Colonel of the Royal North Gloucestershire Militia (later 4th (Militia) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment) on 28 January 1862 and retained...
12 KB (849 words) - 11:35, 20 July 2024
Seymour Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
father into the part-time 4th Battalion (Royal North Gloucestershire Militia), Gloucestershire Regiment, and was promoted to command the battalion with...
8 KB (620 words) - 00:54, 8 December 2023
possible for Bristol at this point, when it was only protected by the Gloucestershire militia, he would probably have been able to take the city and the outcome...
38 KB (4,317 words) - 15:21, 27 June 2024
Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
of Durham. He was appointed Colonel of the newly raised South Gloucestershire Militia and commanded it from 1758 to 1766. His political career began...
16 KB (1,606 words) - 13:15, 10 August 2024
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...
44 KB (1,476 words) - 11:12, 11 July 2024
Maynard Colchester (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
Red Regiment of Gloucestershire Militia at St Briavels. Colchester was appointed Commissioner for superstitious lands, Gloucestershire in 1692. He was...
4 KB (408 words) - 12:54, 24 August 2023
Berkeley Guise (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
Commandant to raise the new 1st East Gloucestershire Local Militia at Gloucester. He was a Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire from 1811 to 1832 and then an...
4 KB (338 words) - 04:15, 26 April 2024
Thomas Reynolds-Moreton, 1st Earl of Ducie (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Royal West Gloucestershire Local Militia at Bristol. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in...
5 KB (454 words) - 11:15, 17 April 2022
supplement the Regular Army and Militia. The City of Bristol Rifles raised on 13 September 1859 became the 1st Gloucestershire RVC, and soon grew to be an...
79 KB (10,575 words) - 22:47, 4 April 2024
Allen Bathurst, 6th Earl Bathurst (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
Royal North Gloucestershire Militia on 10 November 1854. During the invasion scare of 1859–60 he raised the 9th (Cirencester) Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteer...
6 KB (547 words) - 21:05, 21 July 2024
Henry Bathurst, 4th Earl Bathurst (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
Gloucester Militia, 2nd Edn, Cirencester: Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard Printing Works, 1914, pp. 119–20. Local Militia: Gloucestershire, at This Re-illuminated...
8 KB (441 words) - 20:42, 26 May 2023
Benjamin Bathurst (politician, born 1872) (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
Battalion (Royal North Gloucestershire Militia), Gloucestershire Regiment and later commanded the 5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, retiring with...
4 KB (274 words) - 00:51, 8 December 2023
He was educated at Lancing and was a Lieutenant in the South Gloucestershire Militia. He succeeded in the barony on 5 June 1911. He married Anne Maud...
2 KB (151 words) - 19:25, 4 March 2024
Thomas Sharpe (RAF officer) (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
commissioned as a second lieutenant (on probation) in the 3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, on 17 April 1915. He later trained as a pilot, being granted...
5 KB (488 words) - 18:04, 15 December 2023
Samuel Blackwell (category Gloucestershire Militia officers)
the Gloucestershire Militia when it was embodied in 1759 during the Seven Years' War, and he was appointed as Colonel of the North Gloucestershire Militia...
5 KB (458 words) - 03:59, 21 March 2024
Henry Poole (died 1616) (redirect from Henry Poole (Gloucestershire MP))
Hicks-Beach & Maj B.N. Spraggett), The Royal North Gloucester Militia, 2nd Edn, Cirencester: Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard Printing Works, 1914, pp. 21–3....
4 KB (354 words) - 05:15, 29 April 2022
amalgamated to form the Gloucestershire Regiment with its depot in the barracks in 1881. The 3rd Battalion (Royal South Gloucestershire Militia) of the regiment...
4 KB (365 words) - 19:16, 21 February 2024