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a prize for the first boat to board. At the end of the camp the inspecting officer observed that 'they must have been a great deal manoeuvred and likely to be ready and attentive to orders in the noise and confusion of service', though he complained that they were not so good on parade. Orford was keen on marksmanship, and his 600-strong regiment used some 14,000 rounds of ammunition each camping season, then considered a large amount. The results were good by 18th Century standards of musketry: on one occasion in 1780 130 shots out of 600 hit the target. One company that consistently won the shooting competitions was accused of loading with two balls instead of one, so Orford carried out experiments to see if this was a good idea.

65: 482: 864:, enacted during a renewed 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. Under the Act, Militia units could be embodied by Royal Proclamation for full-time home defence service in three circumstances: 1281:. This battalion was nicknamed the 'Norsets' and fought in the desperate attempts to break through to Kut. After the fall of Kut the Norsets continued in service until further reinforcements arrived and the 2nd Norfolks and 2nd Dorsets were reconstituted. Under War Office Instruction 106 of 10 November 1915 the 3rd Bn was ordered to send a draft of 109 men to the new Machine Gun Training Centre at Grantham where they were to form the basis of a brigade machine-gun company of the new 41: 685: 78: 96: 295: 1630:

until 1833. In that year the King drew the lots for individual regiments and the resulting list remained in force with minor amendments until the end of the militia. The regiments raised before the peace of 1763 took the first 47 places: the West Norfolk was 39th and the East Norfolk was 40th. Although most regiments paid little notice to the additional number, the West Norfolk Militia did wear the numeral 39 on its buttons.

587: 894:, the militia began to be called out for home defence. All three Norfolk regiments were embodied on 27 December 1854, the West Norfolks commanded by Lt-Col H.F.C. Custance. Because of the way the 1852 Act had been drafted, a number of men enlisted before April 1854 had to be released, reducing the effective strength of the West Norfolks by 200 to only 460. However, an increased bounty induced many of them to re-enlist. 1320:') were quickly formed at the regimental depots, which struggled to cope with the influx of volunteers. 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 in the Harwich defences formed the 528:. The government always took the precaution of stationing the militia outside their own counties, so that they would not be called upon to fight their friends and relations. When the regiment camped by itself in 1779 and 1780, Orford took upon himself the role of food contractor, supplying the cattle and sheep rather than relying on the retail market. 433:, probably drawing on Townshend's knowledge, and which Townshend revised in 1768 after Windham's death. This is said to have become one of the most important drill manuals employed during the American Revolution. However, a report on the West Norfolks said that the officers were not well chosen, and the adjutant had been incapacitated by a stroke. 524:

hours, capturing a letter giving details of the next run. Again, a detachment was sent to camp at the landing point, to deter a cutter that was hovering offshore. Orford remarked that the clergy, lawyers and doctors of the area were all smugglers, and in Aldeburgh itself every inhabitant was one except the

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The militia order of precedence balloted for in 1793 (Norfolk was 4th) remained in force throughout the French Revolutionary War: this still covered all the regiments in the county. Another ballot for precedence took place at the start of the Napoleonic War, when Norfolk was 46th.This order continued

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3rd Norfolks spent the whole war in the Harwich Garrison, sending drafts to the fighting battalions: 724 officers passed through the battalion, 13,029 ORs were sent to battalions of the Norfolks, and 5854 to other units, many to the Essex Regiment. In June–July 1915 a draft of 300 volunteers from the

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to supplement the defences, after which intensive training began. As well as defence tasks, the battalion's role was to equip Special Reservists, new recruits and returning wounded and send them as reinforcement drafts to the regular battalions of the Norfolks serving overseas. At times the strength

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However, the Peace of Amiens was short-lived and Britain declared war on France once more on 18 May 1803, the West and East Norfolk regiments having already been re-embodied at Yarmouth, East Dereham and Swaffham on 21 March. In June 1804 the West and East Norfolks, with other militia regiments, were

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a coat of the facing colour, faced red; however, when the facing colour was black or red, the drummer's coat was white, with the normal facing colour. The West Norfolks changed to white facings before 1846. In 1881 the West Norfolks adopted the uniform of the Norfolk Regiment, which in that year was

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that was landing contraband. They were too late to intercept the boat, but found casks of spirits hidden in a cave. A party was left to prevent more landings. A little later a landing was made at Dunwich, and 20 militiamen mounted on baggage horses chased the smugglers for 40 miles (64 km) in 4

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in 1778 the regiment carried out a mock sea battle, practising forming orderly lines and columns of boats directed by flag signal, and in volley firing from the boats. The culmination was to row out out and surround a ship moored offshore, fire two volleys and then board it with fixed bayonets, with

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No invasion force ever threatened the Harwich Defences during the war, but from January 1915 German airships and later aircraft were sometimes seen passing over the coast. On 4 July and 22 July 1917 squadrons of aircraft bombed the Felixstowe area, causing numerous casualties among the garrison and

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from December 1875. This assigned Regular and Militia units to places in an order of battle of corps, divisions and brigades for the 'Active Army', even though these formations were entirely theoretical, with no staff or services assigned. The West and East Norfolk Militia were both assigned to 1st

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of permanent staff (about 30) and a number of the officers were former Regulars. Around a third of the recruits and many young officers went on to join the Regular Army. The Militia Reserve introduced in 1867 consisted of present and former militiamen who undertook to serve overseas in case of war.

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On 16 August 1809 the West Norfolk Militia, under the command of Col Walpole (now the 2nd Earl of Orford of the third creation), marched from Colchester into Norwich, the first time the regiment had been stationed in the city for nearly 30 years. In May 1811 they were at King's Lynn and in December

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when the country was threatened with invasion by the Americans' allies, France and Spain. Orford ordered the Norfolk Militia to assemble on 13 April 1778 and he took personal command of the Western battalion. On its first assembly, Orford dismissed 20 'misshapen, underlimbed, distempered men' and

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Large numbers of militia were recruited into the Regulars during 1805, and recourse was made to the ballot to make up the numbers, when large amounts were paid for substitutes, though the establishments of the Norfolk regiments were reduced to the numbers before the Supplementaries were added (98

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It became normal policy to gather the militia regiments into encampments during the summer months where they could be exercised in larger formations, but the West Norfolks spent most of their embodied service camped by themselves on coast defence duties. The regiment benefited from the training

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From 1784 to 1792 the militia were supposed to assemble for 28 days' annual training, even though to save money only two-thirds of the men were actually called out each year. In 1786 the number of permanent non-commissioned officers (NCOs) was reduced. The Earl of Orford died in 1791 and was

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In the Seven Years' War militia regiments camped together took precedence according to the order in which they had arrived. During the War of American Independence the counties were given an order of precedence determined by ballot each year. For the Norfolk Militia the positions were:

1285:. In addition, 10 men at a time were to undergo training at Grantham as battalion machine gunners. The order stated that 'Great care should be taken in the selection of men for training as machine gunners as only well educated and intelligent men are suitable for this work'. 1202:. The first task of the permanent staff was to assist the depot staff at Britannia Barrack to call up, clothe and equip the Army Reservists: 800 had been processed by midnight on 6 August, of which 700 had been despatched in two drafts to the 1st Battalion mobilising at 321:, the men being conscripted by means of parish ballots (paid substitutes were permitted) to serve for three years. In peacetime they assembled for 28 days' annual training. There was a property qualification for officers, who were commissioned by the lord lieutenant. An 1586:

obliged to adopt white facings as an English line regiment. The only militia distinction worn on the Norfolks' uniform was the letter 'M' on the shoulder strap. The Norfolk Regiment, including its militia battalions, regained its traditional yellow facings in 1905.

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After Waterloo there was another long peace. Although officers continued to be commissioned into the militia and ballots were still held, the regiments were rarely assembled for training and the permanent staffs of sergeants and drummers were progressively reduced.

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line was established, with Col Custance appointed commandant of the 50 miles (80 km) section. The line was often attacked, the Kaffir River being a favourite spot for Boer despatch riders to try to cross the line. On 13 July 1901 the battalion proceeded to

414:. They were the first of the reformed militia regiments 'which offered to march wherever they might be most serviceable to the public defence', and the King ordered that they 'should be distinguished by the title of Militia Royal', but this was never done. The 619:), which the Regular Army increasingly saw as a prime source of recruits. They served in coast defences, manned garrisons, guarded prisoners of war, and carried out internal security duties, while their traditional local defence duties were taken over by the 852:(of the third creation) was appointed colonel of the West Norfolks on 26 June 1822 after the death of his father. His lt-col was George Nelthorpe, who had been appointed in 1799, and both retained these positions until after the 1852 reforms. 507:

opportunities of these camps even though isolated from other units, and despite Orford's bouts of mental illness he was enthusiastic and enterprising. He had instruction cards printed, and the regiment was put through every manoeuvre in

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in 31st Division. 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. 94th Brigade became

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the bulk of the British Army was engaged in occupation duties in France, and the West Norfolks volunteered for service in Ireland. On 15 September the regiment, 800 strong, marched to Harwich, where it embarked. It was stationed at

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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 the

1593:, with a castle above a lion of England. In 1881 they adopted the Britannia badge of the Norfolk Regiment, but the officers of all the battalions of the Norfolk Regiment wore the castle on their waistbelt plate. 1135:, trenches parallel to the railway line, and telephone communication made it an almost impassable barrier to the Boers. Early in 1902 the battalion embarked for the UK where it was disembodied on 11 April 1902. 1581:, and the West Norfolks retained these until at least 1780. There is a print of about 1780 showing a drummer of the regiment wearing a white coat with black facings. Normally drummers wore 'reversed' colours, 780:. Detachments of the Norfolk Militia became heavily involved in operating the camp and in escorting prisoners there from Yarmouth. Lieutenant Thomas Borrow of the West Norfolk Militia, father of the author 467:, where they were joined by a recruiting party and recruits from Norwich. Thereafter the battalions were posted to various towns for garrison duty and to guard prisoners. On 28 May 1761 King George granted 4027: 1182:(SR), a semi-professional force whose role was to provide reinforcement drafts for regular units serving overseas in wartime, rather like the earlier Militia Reserve. The battalion became the 1304:. Between March and July the 3rd Bn was progressively turned into the peacetime Regular 1st Bn, after which battalion HQ was absorbed by the 1st Bn and returned to England to be disembodied. 474:

With the Seven Years War drawing to an end orders to disembody the two Norfolk battalions were issued on 15 December 1762. Annual training continued thereafter – the West Norfolks usually at

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The battalion volunteered for overseas service and on 25 February embarked with a strength of 22 officers and 503 other ranks (ORs) under the command of Col F.H. Custance. It arrived at

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One officer of the battalion was killed while attached to 2nd Bn Norfolks; 11 ORs were killed or died of disease during their service with the battalion. The battalion was awarded the

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declared war on Britain on 1 February 1793. George Townshend, now 1st Marquess Townshend and Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk, was ordered on 19 December to embody the Norfolk Militia. The

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Powers, Sandra L. (July 2006). "Studying the Art of War: Military Books Known to American Officers and Their French Counterparts During the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century".

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The regiment returned to Norwich on 11 May 1816 and so was on hand to help put down the riots that broke out in the city in June. The regiment was finally disembodied on 27 June.

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

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saw a new phase for the English militia: they were embodied for a whole generation, and became regiments of full-time professional soldiers (though restricted to service in the

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of 1881 completed the Cardwell process by converting the Regular regiments into county regiments and incorporating the militia battalions into them. The 9th Foot became the

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and continued training reinforcements until the end of the war. On 8 February 1919 it was converted into a service battalion and in March went to Germany where it joined

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A frequent task for the militia was chasing smugglers. While camped at Aldeburgh in 1779 the West Norfolks sent a party 4 miles (6.4 km) up the coast to intercept a

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The disembodied SR resumed its old title of Militia in 1921 but like most militia units the 3rd Norfolks remained in abeyance after World War I. By the outbreak of

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from December 1915 the relieving force included a large draft for the battalion, which had arrived from the UK. This was combined with a similar draft for the 2nd

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The names of the officers and men of militia and volunteer battalions of the Norfolk Regiment who died during the Second Boer War are engraved on a brass plate in

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Holmes. Due to the heat, they set off soon after midnight, but were described as being in good spirits. The Western Battalion would have been under the command of

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Norfolk claimed to have raised the first regiment under the new Acts, but it was actually the second county regiment (after Dorset) to be issued with arms.

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buttons 1833–55 had the number '39' within a crowned circle with the regimental title inscribed on it, all superimposed on an eight-pointed cut star.

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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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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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whilst returning from a fishing trip. Their bodies were recovered and they were buried with full military honours. Ward had previously been in the

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in September. The camp at Caister broke up in mid-November and the battalion marched back through Norwich to winter quarters in Dereham, Swaffham,

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In June 1855 the West Norfolk Militia was presented with new Colours by the Countess of Albemarle. The Earl of Orford (now fulfilling the role of

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until it returned to England in April 1816. Once again, George Borrow accompanied his father (now a captain) on this service and dramatised it in

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was also formed, partly by transfers from the two infantry regiments. The West Norfolks were called out for 28 days' training on 25 April 1854.

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to end the war was now being negotiated, and the militia could be stood down. The West Norfolks were disembodied at King's Lynn in March 1783.

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The buttons of the 1st Norfolk Militia about 1800–33 carried the design of an eight-pointed star with '1 NM' in the centre. The officers'

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Two serving members of the West Norfolk Militia, Sgt Major Frederick Cassell and Sgt Robert Ward, are recorded to have been killed in the

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in Ireland. With the ending of the war the regiment returned to Norwich in June 1856, where it was disembodied the following month.

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it carried out internal security and home defence duties in all of Britain's major wars. It later became a battalion of 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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The West Norfolk Militia was disembodied in 1814, following Napoleon's defeat and abdication. However, on his escape from

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A List of the Officers of the Militia, the Gentlemen & Yeomanry Cavalry, and Volunteer Infantry of the United Kingdom

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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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A musician of the West Norfolk Militia: the only known image of a West Norfolk Militia uniform in the public domain.

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in November 1918, but in March 1919 the 3rd Bn was moved to Ireland, where it was quartered in Victoria Barracks,

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and simultaneously captain (18 March 1852) and later major (17 May 1859) in the West Norfolk Militia; MP for

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The West Norfolk Militia was called out again for garrison duty when much of the army was sent to quell the

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in 1939, no officers remained listed for the battalion. The Militia was formally disbanded in April 1953.

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In September 1798 the officers and most of the men of the West Norfolk Militia volunteered for service in

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battalions in the Harwich Defences. The first task for the SR brigade was to dig entrenchments and erect

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Boer War Memorial in Norwich Cathedral to the militia and volunteer battalions of the Norfolk Regiment.

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on 4 August 1914 the battalion was embodied at Norwich under the command of Lt-Col W. Corrie Tonge,

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at the edge of Norwich as a depot for the Norfolk Regiment and this became the base for the 3rd Bn.

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When the Norfolk Militia paraded at Kensington Palace in 1759 the uniform was red with black

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Lieutenant-Colonels of the regiment (commanding officers after 1852) included the following:

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told his deputies to send only 'sizeable, able-bodied men'. The battalion was reviewed on

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During the autumn of 1759–60 the Norfolk companies were first dispersed in billets across

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Lt-Col Hambleton Francis Custance, promoted 16 May 1854; appointed Hon Col 17 August 1881

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

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History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 5b: Indian Army Divisions

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the two battalions passed through London and under Orford's command were reviewed by

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A Plan of Discipline, Composed for the Use of the Militia of the County of Norfolk

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

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in the 1580s, and control of the militia was one of the areas of dispute between

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Members of the Norfolk Militia conduct training in front of tourists at Cromer.

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Members of the Norfolk Militia undergoing musketry training on Mousehold Heath.

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

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History of the Dorsetshire Regiment, 1914–1919, Part 1, The Regular Battalions

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1. 'Whenever a state of war exists between Her Majesty and any foreign power'.

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appointed by the monarch. This is seen as the starting date for the organised

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The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross, Huntingdonshire, 1796 to 1816

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The History of the 4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment (late East Norfolk Militia)

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The 3rd and 4th Battalions Norfolks, the Norfolk Artillery Militia, and the

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Following the Cardwell Reforms a mobilisation scheme began to appear in the

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They were called out in 1878 during the international crisis caused by the

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The West and East Norfolk Militia regiments were reformed in 1853, and a

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of the 3rd Bn reached 100 officers and 3000 ORs. The 10th (Reserve) Bn (

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and South Lincolnshire Militia. In May 1794 the regiment was in camp at

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By August the divisions of the two battalions were alternately guarding

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W.Y. Carman, 'Philip J. de Loutherbourg and the Camp at Warley, 1778'.

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battalions. Sub-District No 31 (County of Norfolk) set up its depot at

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was long established in England and its legal basis was updated by two

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of 1872, militia regiments were brigaded with their local Regular and

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where it disembarked on 21 March 1900. On 4 April it concentrated at

1083:

With the bulk of the Regular Army serving in South Africa during the

631: 525: 456: 445: 418:(soon to be King George III) also showed the Norfolk Militia favour. 3365: 3322:, London: Spottiswoode, 1914/Uckfield: Naval & Military, 2001, 630:

In August 1793 the West Norfolk regiment, with 8 companies, was at

3095:

Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors

1632: 1357:

on 4 July 1917, then on 24 October 1917 it was transferred to the

1277:

to form a 'Composite English Battalion' in 21st Indian Brigade of

901:

of the regiment) replied to her speech, and the colours were then

683: 635: 585: 480: 293: 3347: 3174:, London: Hutchinson, 1928/Uckfield: Naval & Military, 2002, 959:

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

810: 655: 3375: 3247:, London: RUSI, 1910/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, nd, 3142:

Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory 1793–1815

3084:

An Epitomized History of the Militia (The Constitutional Force)

1541:, appointed 8 February 1905; re-appointed under Special Reserve 871:

2. 'In all cases of invasion or upon imminent danger thereof'.

712:, while Napoleon assembled an expeditionary force across the 197:

was an auxiliary military regiment in the English county of

3313:

Instructions Issued by The War Office During November, 1915

1465:

Lt-Col George Nelthorpe, appointed 2 April 1799; until 1854

1515:

The following served as Honorary Colonel of the regiment:

1230:, the 3rd Bn Norfolks formed an SR brigade to relieve the 724:

the East and West Norfolks formed a brigade under Maj Gen

503:

outside Norwich by Lt-Gen Sir Richard Pierson in mid-May.

371:

in November. Orford appointed Townshend as colonel of the

336:

Norfolk's quota was set at 960 men in two battalions, the

3293:, London: Constable, 1913/Project Gutenberg e-book, 2013. 3157:

Battle Honours of the British and Indian Armies 1695–1914

2951:

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

2577:'The Thorpe Railway Disaster 1874' at Broadland Memories. 2990:

Regimental Records of the Bedfordshire Militia 1759–1884

676:

the war ended and the militia were disembodied in 1802.

1477:

Lt-Col Frederic H. Custance, former Capt & Lt-Col,

2979:, London: Murray, 1851/Project Gutenberg e-book, 2009. 1073:

3rd (West Suffolk Militia) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment

271:. Although hardly employed during the civil wars, the 1051:

3rd (1st Norfolk Militia) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

860:

The Militia of the United Kingdom was revived by the

494:

The militia was called out after the outbreak of the

18:

3rd (1st Norfolk Militia) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

4028:

Military units and formations disestablished in 1953

3320:

History of the 12th (The Suffolk) Regiment 1685–1913

1471:

Lt-Col Randall R. Burroughs, promoted 5 October 1881

1255:

battalion for the 1st Essex was aboard HM Transport

1118:, battalion HQ remaining there for a year while the 1054:

4th (2nd Norfolk Miltia) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

235:

The universal obligation to military service in the

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