• The Brecknockshire Militia, later the Royal Brecknockshire Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county...
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    John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins (category Brecknockshire Militia officers)
    November 1847 he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Royal Brecknockshire Militia. He retired on 30 August 1860 and was appointed the regiment's...
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  • The Brecknockshire Battalion was a Welsh unit of the British Army's auxiliary forces. First raised in 1859, it became a Volunteer Battalion of the South...
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  • The Pembrokeshire Militia, later the Royal Pembroke Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county of Pembrokeshire...
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    Militia) Battalion - formerly the Royal Montgomeryshire Rifles; disbanded in 1908 1st Brecknockshire Rifle Volunteers – renamed 1st (Brecknockshire)...
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    2024. Royal Alderney Militia Royal Guernsey Militia Royal Militia of the Island of Jersey Royal Sark Militia Fencibles British Volunteer Corps Militia (British...
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  • The Merionethshire Militia, later the Royal Merioneth Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county of...
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  • The Radnorshire Militia, later the Royal Radnor Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursors in the Welsh county of Radnorshire...
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  • the small Welsh militia quotas to form larger regiments. The Royal Cardigan Rifles were officially merged with the Royal Brecknockshire Rifles at Brecon...
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  • Lord Arthur John Henry Somerset (category Brecknockshire Militia officers)
    Gazette. 19 November 1803. p. 1613. Capt B.E. Sargeaunt, The Royal Monmouthshire Militia, London: RUSI, 1910/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, nd, ISBN...
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    Edward Loveden Loveden (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
    a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1805 and had served as High Sheriff of Berkshire during 1781–82 and as High Sheriff of Brecknockshire in 1799–1800. He...
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  • Sir Edward Williams, 5th Baronet (category Brecknockshire Militia officers)
    principal promoters of the Brecknockshire Agricultural Society in 1755. He was appointed Colonel of the Brecknockshire Militia on 29 January 1760, during...
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    South Wales Borderers (category Royal Regiment of Wales)
    Brecon from 1873, the regiment recruited from the border counties of Brecknockshire, Monmouthshire, and Herefordshire. It was not called the South Wales...
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    responsible for organising the county's militia. In 1871, the lieutenant's responsibility over the local militia was removed. However, it was not until...
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  • with the Brecknockshire Militia. Despite this the regiment returned to the Plymouth garrison during the following two summers. The Somerset Militia was in...
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    batteries from overland attacks by infantry. A single militia artillery unit, the Lancashire Royal Field Artillery, was also created in the United Kingdom...
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  • several regiments had more or fewer militia regiments than specified by the initial scheme. In addition, the King's Royal Rifle Corps and the Rifle Brigade...
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  • Thomas Wood (1777–1860) (category High sheriffs of Brecknockshire)
    for 1809 to 1810. Wood commanded the Royal East Middlesex Militia for 56 years. Wood remained colonel of the Militia and encamped with them at Aldershot...
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    Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar (category High sheriffs of Brecknockshire)
    grandfather in 1800. He served in the Glamorgan Yeomanry and later in the militia (the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry, commissioned as Major on 3 April 1849),...
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  • David Hughes-Morgan (category Brecknockshire Militia officers)
    in 1906, but in 1907 joined the 1st (Volunteer) Battalion (later the Brecknockshire Battalion), resigning in 1911. During the First World War he returned...
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    Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort (category Brecknockshire Militia officers)
    Lords. He was Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire and Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire from 1803, and Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire from 1810, until his...
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    Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (category Brecknockshire Militia officers)
    appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Monmouthshire in 1771 and Lord-Lieutenant of Brecknockshire in 1787, holding both offices until his death in 1803, as well as that...
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  • Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk (category Brecknockshire Militia officers)
    also appointed to succeed his father as Honorary Colonel of the 1st (Brecknockshire) Volunteer Battalion, South Wales Borderers, on 1 June 1907. In a most...
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    in the Dock area between some of the Brecknockshire Militia and the two black musicians of the Somerset Militia band. A large mob formed and the Somersets...
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  • Arthur Walsh, 3rd Baron Ormathwaite (category Brecknockshire Militia officers)
    College. In 1876 he was commissioned a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal South Wales Borderers Militia, and promoted to lieutenant later the same year. In 1878...
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    John Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden (category Kent Militia officers)
    Bench), and Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Jeffreys, of The Priory, Brecknockshire. He was baptised on the day Halley's Comet appeared. In 1765, his father...
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    Chilwell Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers Regimental Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, at Monmouth Castle Jersey Field Squadron (Royal Militia of the...
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    Argyllshire Armagh Ayrshire Banffshire Bedfordshire Berkshire Berwickshire Brecknockshire Buckinghamshire Buteshire Caernarfonshire Caithness Cambridgeshire Cardiganshire...
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    Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (category Lord-lieutenants of Brecknockshire)
    Wiltshire Militia then accompanied the Royal army to Bridgwater in pursuit of the rebels. When Monmouth attempted a night attack on the Royal army camped...
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    transferred to Northern Army (Home Forces). The battalion absorbed the 2/1st Brecknockshire Battalion of the South Wales Borderers in November 1916. During the...
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