The Norfolk Militia was an auxiliary military force in the English county of Norfolk in East Anglia. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in...
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The East Norfolk Militia was an auxiliary military unit in the English county of Norfolk in East Anglia. First organised during the Seven Years' War it...
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The West Norfolk Militia was an auxiliary military regiment in the English county of Norfolk in East Anglia. First organised during the Seven Years' War...
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the 3rd and 4th Battalions, Norfolk Regiment, (formerly the West and East Norfolk Militia) and the 3rd (West Suffolk Militia) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment...
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9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot with the local Militia and Rifle Volunteers battalions. The Norfolk Regiment fought in the First World War on the Western...
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some Lincoln and Kent militia; the second consisted of 50 men of the 41st Regiment with York, Lincoln, Oxford and Norfolk militia; the third was formed...
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addition to the railway network. Early military units included the Norfolk Militia. In the 20th century the county developed a role in aviation. The first...
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Norfolk in East Anglia from 1558 until they were reconstituted as the Norfolk Militia in 1662. They were periodically embodied for home defence, for example...
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Onstone, invaded the Norfolk/Haldimand region, stealing clothing, horses, and other goods, rounding up cattle and kidnapping militia officers. Captain William...
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George Keppel (British Army officer, born 1865) (category Norfolk Militia officers)
Highlanders. He resigned his commission in 1892, but joined the Norfolk Artillery Militia in 1894. Keppel was promoted to captain in 1908 and 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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Walter Keppel, 9th Earl of Albemarle (category Norfolk Militia officers)
Wales's Own Norfolk Artillery on 28 March 1900, and promoted to a lieutenant in that regiment on 25 August 1900. This was a Royal Artillery Militia regiment...
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George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend (category Norfolk Militia officers)
the 4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment (late East Norfolk Militia), London: Jarrold, 1899, pp. 23–7. J.R. Western, The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century:...
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of Fort George. In this forward position they were harassed by Canadian militia and First Nation warriors. On 24 July Brown fell back to Chippawa Creek...
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Sir Charles Harvey, The History of the 4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment (late East Norfolk Militia), London: Jarrold, 1899, pp. 79–90. Maj J.H. Busby, 'Local...
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Edwin Alderson (category Norfolk Militia officers)
Ipswich School. Aged 17, Alderson received a commission into the Norfolk Artillery Militia, and at 19 he was transferred to the 1st Foot (later Royal Scots...
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In the War of 1812 between America and Great Britain, Norfolk saw action between American militia led by Richard Lawson and the British navy. On July 13...
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from the 1st Norfolk Militia 4th Middlesex Regiment - commanded by Lieut. Col. James Hamilton In 1830 the regiments of Middlesex militia were composed...
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Arnold Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle (category Norfolk Militia officers)
the 4th (2nd Norfolk Militia) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment in 1900 and of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the regiment (later 5th Bn Norfolks in the Territorial...
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George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford (category Norfolk Militia officers)
Sir Charles Harvey, The History of the 4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment (late East Norfolk Militia), London: Jarrold, 1899, pp. 23–31. Historic England...
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from the Loyal Kent Volunteers, Provincial Dragoons, Middlesex Militia, and Norfolk Militia scaled the icy banks of the Thames River to advance on a group...
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Horatio Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford (category Norfolk Militia officers)
first creation), as Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk, appointed him Lieutenant-Colonel of the East Norfolk Militia. After the earl died, Horatio was promoted...
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5th Battalion of Select Embodied Militia, Chasseurs Canadiens Militia Lieutenant Colonel David Tisdale, 39th Norfolk Battalion of Infantry Assistant Surgeon...
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settlements. Major Adam Muir, the local British commander, ordered the Norfolk Militia to assemble, first at Culver's Tavern in Woodhouse township, then in...
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George Manners Astley, 20th Baron Hastings (category Norfolk Militia officers)
wife had 3 sons and 3 daughters. He served as an officer in the Norfolk Artillery Militia commanded by his father-in-law and previously by his uncle the...
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Dereham (redirect from East Dereham, Norfolk)
transferred from Great Yarmouth to Norman Cross under the charge of the East Norfolk Militia. On 6 October 1799, a French officer, Jean de Narde, managed to escape...
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The East York Militia was a part time home defence force in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The Militia and its predecessors had always been important in...
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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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Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield (category Norfolk Militia officers)
May 1866 he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Norfolk Artillery Militia in which two of his younger brothers were already serving. In...
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Sir Kenneth Hagar Kemp, 12th Baronet (category Norfolk Militia officers)
steadily progressed through the West Norfolk Militia (which became the 3rd (1st Norfolk Militia) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, in 1881): Captain, 7 March...
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