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in 1820, and for 21 days the following year. Training was held again in 1825 at Exeter, when rewards were offered for 31 men who had failed to appear and were listed as deserters. Training was held in 1831, but not again before 1852, and the ballot lapsed. The permanent staff of the regiment in 1819 consisted of the adjutant, paymaster and surgeon, sergeant-major and drum-major, and one sergeant and corporal for every 40 men (12 of each) and one drummer for every two companies plus the flank companies (6), but these were progressively reduced so that by 1835 there were only the adjutant, sergeant-major and six sergeants, while the other long-serving men were pensioned off. In 1834 the permanent staff had been under arms during trade union disturbances in Exeter, but an inspecting officer found nine of them unfit due to age or infirmity. Again in 1847 the permanent staff and pensioners were called out to assist special constables to put down food riots in Exeter.

522:, Dartmouth and surrounding villages, and remained in these quarters throughout 1799. In November that year the Militia was partially disembodied, some of the men being stood down with the whole of the Supplementary Militia; 70 of the men turned out of the 1st Devon enlisted in the Regular Army (which was part of the motivation for the change). In February 1800 the regiment returned to Plymouth Dock barracks and was concentrated for the first time in 18 months. The duties as usual were to guard the dockyard and the French prisoners, and also riot duty. Bread riots and looting broke out in Plymouth on 31 March 1801 and the magistrates were unable to restore order with the detachments of militia available. Colonel Bastard of the 1st Devon returned on 4 April and took matters in hand, seizing firearms in the docks to prevent them falling into the hands of the rioters (who had been joined by striking dockyard hands) and calling out the 797:. Here a problem arose: by one interpretation of the regulations none of the men enlisted before 12 May 1854 could be forced to do more than 56 days' service. Most of these had already been sent home in December, but there were still 117 serving in the regiment who refused to re-enlist under the later regulations, so the regiment lost many of its best men (the family men were also discharged). However, recruitment had been good, so most of the losses were made up. Two recruiting drives during the year for militiamen to transfer to the Regulars saw the loss of another 141 men from the regiment. On 21 December the regiment marched to 619:. In November the regiment returned to Exeter for its winter quarters. In the summer of 1807 it was back at Plymouth Dock. Another recruitment drive for men to transfer to the Line regiments was accompanied by balloting to bring the Militia up to strength: the 1st Devon required 335 men in December to replace volunteers and time-expired men. Again in 1810, the Militia were increased by half their establishment, and recruits were obtained 'by beat of drum' (as in regiments of the Line) as well as by the ballot and by volunteers from the Local Militia, which had replaced the Volunteer Corps. 547:. On 21 May the regiment was ordered to march to Plymouth Dock, where it arrived on 26 May, the garrison including all three Devon Militia regiments. The duties once again included guarding French prisoners in Mill Prison. In June the Supplementary Militia was also embodied, and the 1st Devon Militia was increased to 10 companies (860 all ranks). The Plymouth garrison trained on Buckland Down, with particular emphasis on the Light Companies, and six chosen men from each of the other companies trained as marksmen alongside the Light Companies. In August the 1st Devons camped at 62: 762:, enacted during a period of international tension. As before, units were raised and administered on a county basis, and filled by voluntary enlistment (although conscription by means of the Militia Ballot might be used if the counties failed to meet their quotas). Training was for 56 days on enlistment, then for 21–28 days per year, during which the men received full army pay. The permanent staff was increased. Under the Act, Militia units could be embodied by Royal Proclamation for full-time home defence service in three circumstances: 905:

became an annual ballot between the counties. Then in 1833 individual regiments were balloted for a permanent order of precedence and this list was continued in 1855: the 1st Devons were drawn as No 41, the South Devons as No 25. Normally this only affected matters such as positions on the parade ground, but when the militia became numbered battalions it meant that the South Devons (originally the 3rd, later 2nd) became the 3rd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment by virtue of their higher precedence, and the 1st Devons became the

75: 93: 463:. It returned to Somerset for its winter quarters, where the men who had completed their tree-year term of service were allowed home furlough, in the hope that they would make bargains to serve as substitutes for the next batch of men chosen by ballot, and then return to the regiment as trained men. However, the ranks were full of recruits that summer. The summers of 1781 and 1782 were spent in Devon at 793:, the Militia were called out for home defence. The 1st Devon Militia was embodied on 18 December, consisting of 10 companies, 942 all ranks. The medically unfit men, together with married men with two or more children, were sent home and volunteers enlisted to replace them. The regiment was drilled into shape, and on 27 February 1855 went by rail to Bristol, where it boarded steamers for 34: 514:, guarding the Mill Prison, which posting continued during 1796 apart from autumn manoeuvres at Roborough. In March 1798 the standing militia regiments were reinforced by men from the newly-raised Supplementary Militia, the remainder forming new regiments (such as the 4th Devon Militia formed at Exeter). In October the 1st Devons left Plymouth for winter quarters at 1057:, where it trained drafts for the 8th, 9th and 10th (Service) Bns Devons. On 1 September 1916 the 2nd Reserve battalions were transferred to the Training Reserve (TR) and the battalion was redesignated 44th Training Reserve Bn, still in 10th Reserve Bde. The training staff retained their Devons badges. The battalion was finally disbanded on 16 February 1918 at 388:. Acland commanded the Grenadier battalion and was severely wounded and captured. He was well-treated by his captors, and after his return to England was challenged to a duel by an officer who resented his favourable comments on the Americans. Although Acland survived the duel, he is believed to have died from the effects of a chill caught on the day. 689:, and the 1st Devon formed a company of 69 volunteers. But in 1814 only one man and three officers volunteered for garrison duty in Europe. In December 1813 the regiment was marched from Plymouth to Bristol, where it took up duties at Stapleton Prison once more. It returned to Plymouth in May 1814, but by now the war was over, the 1037:') were quickly formed at the regimental depots. The SR battalions also swelled with new recruits and were soon well above their establishment strength. On 8 October 1914 each SR battalion was ordered to use the surplus to form a service battalion of the 4th New Army ('K4'). Accordingly, the 3rd (Reserve) Bn at Exeter formed the 575:. The regiment was concentrated for training in the summer of 1803, then went to Mill Bay Barracks for the following winter, with the exception of detachments at Yealm battery, Berry Head, and manning warning beacons. As usual the duty included guarding prisoners, while craftsmen in the ranks were employed on government works. 1338:. Of the 1st Devons, 221 men were called up to be attached to the 1st Battalion 11th Foot at Devonport, of whom 214 joined by the deadline of 19 April. The remainder subsequently joined having satisfactorily accounted for their absence; the last man to arrive had been shipwrecked. The Militia Reserve was stood down on 31 July. 471:

near Plymouth, where both Regulars and Militia (including all three Devon regiments) were gathered. The Light Companies of the regiments at Roborough were formed into a composite Light Battalion, which trained separately. The Militia also had to find guards for the American prisoners of war lodged in

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The 1st Devon Militia carried out its first peacetime training (21 days) in September 1858, and underwent 21 or 27 days in each of the following years, the Non-Commissioned Officers and recruits having undergone preliminary drill over the preceding 14 or 21 days. In November 1867 the permanent staff

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Under the Act, the militia establishment for Devon was fixed at two regiments of infantry and one of artillery. The North Devon Militia were converted to artillery in 1853 and the surplus men and equipment taken over by the 1st Devon. The 1st Devon now dropped the 'East Devon' title. The reorganised

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In 1817 an Act was passed that allowed the annual training of the Militia to be dispensed with. So although officers continued to be commissioned into the regiment and the ballot was regularly held, the selected men were rarely mustered for drill. The regiment assembled 450 strong for 28 days' drill

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had already been fought, but the process of embodiment went on while the Regulars were away in the Army of Occupation in France. However, in the absence of a fresh ballot only a small number of men whose time was not yet expired were available: the regiment mustered 25 sergeants, 17 drummers and 130

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scare in 1867 the regiment posted guards over the military stores at Exeter. That year the Militia Reserve Act came into force, whereby in exchange for a bounty the militiamen could sign up for service with the Regulars in time of war; however, there was little take-up among the 1st Devons. In 1871

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a series of Militia Acts from 1757 re-established county militia regiments, the men being conscripted by means of parish ballots (paid substitutes were permitted) to serve for three years. Front-line Devonshire was initially given a quota of 1600 men to raise. There was a property qualification for

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of two battalions and the two Devon Militia regiments becoming the 3rd and 4th battalions. This caused some confusion: because there had been no established order of precedence, when Militia regiments were brigaded together they had traditionally drawn lots for precedence in that year's camp; this

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having been signed in April. Plymouth was busy with militia regiments returning from Ireland to be disembodied, and returning British prisoners of war. On 16 June the warrant for disembodying the Devonshire Militia was signed and the regiment returned to Exeter to complete the process by 9 August.

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officers, who were commissioned by the Lord Lieutenant. The first issue of arms to the Devon Militia was made on 5 December 1758, and they were embodied for permanent service on 23 June 1759. Two, later four (Exeter, North, East and South), battalions were formed in Devon under the command of the

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where it formed part of the Plymouth Garrison for the rest of the war, but its primary role was to train reinforcement drafts for the battalions serving overseas. In the course of the war the 3rd Devons trained and despatched 750 officers and over 13,000 other ranks. After the war, the battalion

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and return to power in France in 1815 meant that the Militia had to be called out once more. The regiments began recruiting for volunteers 'by beat of drum' from 25 April and the warrant for embodying the Devonshire Militia was issued on 16 June, with the 1st Devon to be embodied at Exeter on 24

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to back up his own detachments. It was several months before disturbances in the West Country were put down: the regiment remained on standby to march at short notice, all leave was cancelled, and the men who had been disembodied were recalled to the colours. However, a peace treaty having been

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From 1787 to 1793 the East Devon Militia was assembled for its annual 28 days' training, but to save money only two-thirds of the men were mustered each year. In view of the worsening international situation the whole Devonshire Militia was embodied for service on 22 December 1792, even though

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in the village. In 1872 it carried out its first camp since 1813, and the following year took part in division-scale manoeuvres at Roborough Down. However, the unpopularity of camps led to a falling-off in recruitment and the Devon Militia regiments were each reduced by two companies in 1876.

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broke out on 4 August 1914 the battalion was embodied at Exeter and moved to its war station at Plymouth on 8 August. It returned to Exeter on 28 August to fulfil its role of organising drafts of Special Reservists and returning Regular reservists for the 1st Battalion serving with the

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for a projected invasion, the regiment was still part of the Plymouth garrison. Its 664 men under Lt-Col Edmund Bastard were deployed with 8 companies in Plymouth Dock Barracks and a detachment at Yealm Redoubt. In October the regiment marched from Plymouth to

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from December 1875. This assigned to Militia units places in an order of battle serving with Regular units in an 'Active Army' and a 'Garrison Army'. The 1st and South Devon Militia were both assigned to the Garrison Army in the Plymouth defences.

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had always been important in the county, which was vulnerable to invasion, and from its formal creation in 1758 the regiment served in home defence in all of Britain's major wars until 1908, after which it became a reserve unit for the

361:'s government introduced a Bill in Parliament to 'Enable His Majesty to call out and assemble the Militia in all cases of Rebellion in any part of the Dominion belonging to the Crown of Great Britain'. Colonel Acland (himself MP for 1045:. In April 1915 the War Office decided to convert the K4 battalions into 2nd Reserve units, providing drafts for the K1–K3 battalions in the same way that the SR was doing for the Regular battalions. The Devon battalion became 509:

and then on to Bristol, where the principal duty once more was guarding French prisoners in Stapleton Prison. The following year the regiment spent the summer in camp at Roborough. The winter of 1795–6 was spent in barracks at

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for the King's Colour, and one bearing the Duke of Bedford's coat of arms for the Regimental Colour. The regimental badge of the 1st or East Devon Militia from the date of its formation was a heraldic castle (representing

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appointed by the monarch. This is seen as the starting date for the organised county militia in England. The Devon Trained Bands were divided into three 'Divisions' (East, North and South), which were called out in the

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The militia was called out when Britain was threatened with invasion by the Americans' allies, France and Spain, and the regiment was embodied at Exeter on 20 April 1778. Earl Poulett appointed his eldest son,

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After the Boer War, the future of the Militia was called into question. There were moves to reform the Auxiliary Forces (Militia, Yeomanry and Volunteers) to take their place in the six Army Corps proposed by

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Although the Supplementary Reserve (renamed Militia again in 1921) remained in existence after 1919 and a small number of officers were commissioned, the infantry militia dwindled away: by the outbreak of

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did not declare war on Britain until 1 February 1793. In February the regiment sent a detachment to Plymouth to be trained to operate battalion guns, and the rest marched to Surrey, moving in July to

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A number of officers who served in the battalion in subsequent years had seen active service in the Boer War, including the CO, Lt-Col the Hon E.A. Palk, and Capt William Edwards, who had won a

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rank and file. Together with the few recruits who had been obtained, they marched to Plymouth on 7 August, leaving a recruiting party at Exeter. On 27 October the regiment embarked aboard the

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transport for service in Ireland. One sergeant, three drummers and 11 privates refused to serve in Ireland and were attached to the Derby Militia at Plymouth. The regiment disembarked at

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The militiamen's peacetime training was widely neglected, but the Devonshire regiments do appear to have completed their training each year. The Duke of Bedford died in 1771, and

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No other Hon Colonel was named until the formation of the Supplementary Reserve when the Hon Colonel of the disbanded 3rd (2nd Devon Militia) Bn, Col F.H. Mountsteven,

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Under the 1852 Militia Act the rank of colonel was abolished in the militia and the lieutenant-colonel became the commanding officer; at the same time, the position of

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The Peace of Amiens did not last long, and the Militia were soon called out again. The warrant to embody the Devon and Exeter Militia was sent to the Lord Lieutenant (

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in Exeter for 21 days' training on 26 October 1852, with the assistance of drill sergeants borrowed from Regular regiments. Training was also held in 1853 and 1854.

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on 8 November, sending a number of detachments to outlying posts. The regiment remained at Fermoy until 16 April 1816, when it returned to Cork, re-embarked on the

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On 5–6 November 1879 the permanent staff of the 1st Devons were called out with the men at 34th Brigade Depot to put down riots in the Cathedral Yard at Exeter.

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in 1660 the militia of Devon were called out on a number of occasions when the appearance of hostile fleets caused alarm, and in 1685 they prevented the rebel

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to the regiment it marched to Exeter on 18 July, arriving on 23 July. The order to disembody arrived the next day, and the process was concluded on 31 July.

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of 1881 took Cardwell's reforms further, and the Militia regiments became integral parts of their Regular county regiment, with the 11th Foot becoming the

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the target) was set at 222 for the 1st Devons, but not more than 100 accepted, and the regiment was reduced to 8 companies once more. That summer when

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Steve Brown, 'Home Guard: The Forces to Meet the Expected French Invasion/1 September 1805' at The Napoleon Series (archived at the Wayback Machine).

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Mill Prison. The camp at Roborough was broken up on 10 November 1782 and the regiments went into winter quarters. The East Devons were quartered at

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Historical Records of the 1st Devon Militia (4th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment), With a Notice of the 2nd and North Devon Militia Regiments

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Camp in 1919. The remaining personnel were drafted to the 1st Battalion on 1 August 1919 and the 3rd Battalion was disembodied on 9 August.

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rather than their county Lord Lieutenant, and officers' commissions were signed by the Queen. A mobilisation scheme began to appear in the

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were called out to help deal with bread riots in Exeter, several times charging at the rioters with bayonets to disperse them. During the

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issued his call for volunteers in August 1914, the battalions of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd New Armies ('K1', 'K2' and 'K3' of '

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of 1882, but none were embodied. The Regular Reserves were called up when an international crisis arose in 1885 over the

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Under these changes, the 3rd (2nd Devon Militia) Battalion was disbanded, and the 4th (1st Devon Militia) became the

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History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 3b: New Army Divisions (30–41) and 63rd (R.N.) Division

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for the loss of his command, and refused to give up the battalion's arms and accoutrements in his care until 1764.

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and was nearly lost on the rocks. Once it had landed at Weymouth it relieved an Irish militia regiment guarding

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was instituted. On 10 June 1803 part of the detachment at Yealm battery rowed out in boats to help recover a

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in November. It was to be part of 100th Brigade in 33rd Division. In December 1914 it went into billets at

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rifle in 1882. Like many Militia battalions, the 4th Devons volunteered for garrison service during the

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The Militia Reserve was called out in the summer of 1878 during the international crisis preceding the

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Efforts were made to extend the service of the Militia. In 1811 bounties were offered for service in

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machine-breaking and the regiment spent much of the year constantly on the move round the industrial

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Barracks, brigaded with the North Devon and North Hampshire Militia. In April 1806 it moved to

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sergeant and two gunners. In November the regiment was widely dispersed to winter quarters in

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3rd Bn Devonshires had no officers listed. The Militia was formally disbanded in April 1953.

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The battalion continued to do its annual training and target practice, being issued with the

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The military effectiveness of the West Country Militia at the time of the Monmouth Rebellion

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of 1872, Militia regiments were grouped into county brigades with their local Regular and

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the Militia were permitted to camp for their annual training, but the 1st Devons' camp at

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In 1805 there was a drive to induce militiamen to volunteer for the Regular Army (or the

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The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century: The Story of a Political Issue 1660–1802

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in Plymouth Harbour. In May 1810 it marched to Kingston upon Thames and from there to

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was long established in England and its legal basis was updated by two acts of 1557 (

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a few miles from Plymouth, where they helped to build a redoubt at the mouth of the

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battalions. For the 1st Devon Regiment this was Brigade No 34 (County of Devon) in

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War having broken out with Russia in 1854 and an expeditionary force sent to the

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H.G. Parkyn, 'English Militia Regiments 1757–1935: Their Badges and Buttons',

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Not to be confused with 11th Battalion Devons formed during World War II (see

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The uniform of the 1st or East Devon Militia in 1778 was red with yellow

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from accessing recruits and supplies from Devon and Cornwall. After the

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and embarked for Ireland, where it was stationed at Castle Barracks in

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The 1st Devon spent much of 1809 in the unpopular duty of guarding the

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issued to the Devonshire Militia battalions in 1758 consisted of the

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J. Stafford Goldie Harding, retired captain, promoted 10 January 1906

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for the whole of their service; the duties included guarding French

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Lieutenant-Colonels Commandant of the unit included the following:

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Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors

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while much of the Regular Army was simultaneously engaged on the

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G.H. Hennessy, 'Order Books of the 1st Devon Regiment in 1793',

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Under the 'Localisation of the Forces' scheme introduced by the

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An Epitomized History of the Militia (The Constitutional Force)

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Scarlet into Khaki: The British Army on the Eve of the Boer War

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and reached Plymouth on 20 April. It was disembodied on 1 May.

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facings in the early 1900s the militia battalions conformed.

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W.Y. Baldry, 'Order of Precedence of Militia Regiments',

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For the summer of 1780 the regiment was camped with the

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4th Battalion (1st Devon Militia), Devonshire Regiment

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the Devon Militia were active in rounding up rebels.

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The universal obligation to military service in the

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991:on 1 April 1908. The reformed battalion also had a 146: 141: 130: 112: 102: 87: 55: 47: 20: 1678:Brig Charles Herbert, 'Coxheath Camp, 1778–1779', 1207:, MP, promoted 2 April 1910, until 31 January 1917 3166:Military units and formations established in 1758 1210:Reginald Francis W. Hill, promoted 1 January 1917 2456:, London: Longmans, 1897/Andesite Press, 2015, 353:, for the colonelcy. After the outbreak of the 2324:, Vol I, Wakefield: Microform Academic, 1984, 1619: 1617: 1615: 1613: 615:where the men assisted in the construction of 214:cc. 2 and 3), which placed selected men, the ' 2530: 2322:Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660–1978 2297:The Development of the British Army 1899–1914 1568: 1566: 1527: 1525: 1358:List of battalions of the Devonshire Regiment 1114:, commissioned 22 January 1779, resigned 1798 682:, before returning to Plymouth Dock in 1813. 634:. In November it moved to winter quarters in 8: 2317:, Vol III, 2nd Edn, London: Macmillan, 1911. 1564: 1562: 1560: 1558: 1556: 1554: 1552: 1550: 1548: 1546: 1478:Fortescue, Vol II, pp. 288, 299, 301–2, 521. 1187:Hon John Schomberg Trefusis, younger son of 989:3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment 772:'In all cases of rebellion or insurrection'. 342:, recommended the son of a local landowner, 265:in 1713 the militia was allowed to dwindle. 27:3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment 2471:, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965. 1733:, Vol 47, No 192 (Winter 1969), pp. 215–21. 1682:, Vol 45, No 183 (Autumn 1967), pp. 129–48. 1597:, Vol 15, No 60 (Winter 1936), pp. 216–248. 817:. 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They served in the 3156:Military units and formations in Devon 2369:, London:United Service Gazette, 1905. 17: 2505:Infantry Battalion COs of World War I 2210:Training Reserve at Long, Long Trail. 1120:, promoted 8 November 1798, died 1816 1039:11th (Service) Bn Devonshire Regiment 590:was massing his 'Army of England' at 7: 1223:Hugh, 2nd Earl Fortescue, from 1855 1184:Henry Walrond, promoted 27 May 1893 1095:from its re-establishment in 1758: 571:that had been attacked by a French 376:In 1776–7 Col Acland served in his 2310:, Vol II, London: Macmillan, 1899. 646:. The summer of 1811 was spent at 332:Sir Richard Bampfylde, 4th Baronet 173:3rd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment 14: 2439:The Late Victorian Army 1868–1902 2236:Devons at Infantry Battalion COs. 1102:, assumed command 1758, died 1771 877:Exeter and South Devon Volunteers 825:. 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