148:, 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. Under the Act, Militia units could be embodied by Royal Proclamation for full-time home defence service in three circumstances:
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242:. It was the smallest of the artillery militia units, with an establishment of three officers, one surgeon, 5 NCOs, one drummer and 75 gunners. After training was suspended in 1866, the unit's strength returns show no men at all from 1868 to 1874, and it was not revived when training resumed in 1871. It was officially merged into the Mid-Ulster Artillery in 1875.
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The establishment of the Armagh
Artillery was small: five officers including a surgeon, seven Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs), one trumpeter and 100 gunners. Recruiting for the unit appears to have been poor. Training of the Irish Militia was suspended in 1866, when the only officer listed was the
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was formed at the former
Dungannon HQ of the Tyrone Artillery, whose officers and men formed the core of the new unit, which had an establishment strength of 466. Artillery Militia units took precedence in alphabetical order (Armagh was 2): the new unit assumed the precedence number of the
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The Tyrone
Artillery was embodied during the Crimean War from September 1855 to July 1856. In 1874 the training returns showed that the unit had 206 men enrolled out of an establishment of 218, and the following year it formed the basis of the Mid-Ulster Artillery.
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from
December 1875. This assigned places in an order of battle of the 'Garrison Army' to Militia Artillery units: together with a number of other Irish units, the Mid-Ulster Artillery's war stations were a number of small forts and batteries, including
461:, a semi-professional force whose role was to provide reinforcement drafts for Regular units serving overseas in wartime. Although the majority of the officers and men of the Mid-Ulster RGA (M) accepted transfer to the Special Reserve
469:, all these units were scrapped in 1909, the Mid-Ulster disbanding on 20 October 1909. Instead the men of the RFA Special Reserve would form Brigade Ammunition Columns for the Regular RFA brigades on the outbreak of war.
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surgeon. When training resumed in 1871 the strength returns of the Armagh
Artillery showed no men at all. In 1875 it was merged into the Mid-Ulster Artillery.
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units in addition to the traditional infantry regiments. Their role was to man coastal defences and fortifications, relieving the
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at the end of April 1855 with an establishment of eight officers, eight NCOs, two drummers and 187 gunners. Its first HQ was at
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Captain Commandant Stewart Blacker, with HQ at
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on 16 February 1889. The paymaster-serjeant was
Bernard Kilkeary, a veteran of the
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in May 1868. Surviving examples of regimental stationery and crockery use the name
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152:'Whenever a state of war exists between Her Majesty and any foreign power'.
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From 1902 most units of the
Militia artillery formally became part of the
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Londonderry (21) rather than the Tyrone (28). Ynyr Henry Burges, former
933:, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992/Sandpiper Books, 1999,
887:, London:United Service Gazette, 1905/Ray Westlake Military Books, 1987
835:
History of the Great War: Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1914
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The Militia Artillery 1852–1909 (Their Lineage, Uniforms and Badges)
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128:. Formed from three smaller units in 1875, it served until 1909.
837:, Vol I, 3rd Edn, London: Macmillan,1933/Woking: Shearer, 1986,
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by December 1854, but it was not until the following April that
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885:
An Epitomized History of the Militia (The Constitutional Force)
869:
Scarlet into Khaki: The British Army on the Eve of the Boer War
504:
Lt-Col R.J.P. Saunders, former CO, appointed 19 February 1902.
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155:'In all cases of invasion or upon imminent danger thereof'.
437:) to take their place in the six Army Corps proposed by
871:, London: Sampson Low, 1899/London: Greenhill, 1988,
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On 10 May 1875, three Militia Artillery regiments in
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1594:Military units and formations in Northern Ireland
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411:The Mid-Ulster Artillery was embodied during the
234:was authorised in 1854 and officially raised in
852:, Vol II, Wakefield: Microform Academic, 1984,
485:Major The Hon. W. Stuart Knox, formerly of the
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850:Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660–1978
824:The Development of the British Army 1899–1914
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120:was a part-time reserve unit of Britain's
457:of 1908, the Militia was replaced by the
422:, the Dungannon unit taking the title of
249:was converted into a new artillery unit,
1599:Militia regiments of the Royal Artillery
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903:, Nottingham: Sherwood Press, 1987,
247:Londonderry Militia Light Infantry
95:North Irish Division, RA (1882–89)
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1619:Military history of County Tyrone
931:The Late Victorian Army 1868–1902
715:Kilkeary at Birkenhead Survivors.
251:9th Brigade, North Irish Division
97:Southern Division, RA (1889–1902)
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415:from 3 May to 6 November 1900.
206:R.F. Kidd transferred from the
916:The Army and Society 1815–1914
283:Royal Tyrone Fusiliers Militia
218:from April 1855 to July 1856.
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232:Londonderry Artillery Militia
226:Londonderry Artillery Militia
214:. It was embodied during the
208:Armagh Light Infantry Militia
867:(Col Peter S. Walton, ed.),
303:Mid-Ulster Artillery Militia
118:Mid-Ulster Artillery Militia
32:Mid-Ulster Artillery Militia
738:Dunlop, pp. 131–40, 158-62.
136:The long-standing national
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918:, London: Longmans, 1980,
704:Burges at the peerage.com.
443:Secretary of State for War
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198:was officially formed in
170:(RA) for active service.
899:Norman E.H. Litchfield,
883:Col George Jackson Hay,
865:James Moncrieff Grierson
826:, London: Methuen, 1938.
819:100th Edn, London, 1953.
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465:and the unit became the
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257:Tyrone Artillery Militia
162:The 1852 Act introduced
1614:Irish Militia regiments
1493:Forfar & Kincardine
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782:Litchfield, Appendix 8.
627:Litchfield, pp. 113–4.
326:and a survivor of the
279:Royal Tyrone Artillery
952:Birkenhead survivors.
694:Litchfield, pp 140–1.
589:Frederick, pp. 983–4.
463:Royal Field Artillery
822:Col John K. Dunlop,
529:Litchfield, pp. 1–7.
727:Late Victorian Army
682:Litchfield, p. 111.
550:Grierson, pp. 27–8.
453:Under the sweeping
144:was revived by the
929:Edward M. Spiers,
914:Edward M. Spiers,
848:J.B.M. Frederick,
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760:Dunlop, pp. 270–2.
749:Army & Society
639:Litchfield, p. 48.
561:Army & Society
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316:lieutenant-colonel
236:County Londonderry
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751:, pp. 243–2, 254.
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363:Enniskillen
359:Lough Foyle
216:Crimean War
102:Garrison/HQ
1588:Categories
1436:North York
1331:Lancashire
1301:Flintshire
1177:Mid-Ulster
1111:Haddington
1045:Lancashire
1020:Carmarthen
810:References
435:Volunteers
329:Birkenhead
271:Charlemont
132:Background
1609:Dungannon
1564:Westmeath
1554:Tipperary
1519:Fermanagh
1483:Edinburgh
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395:Waterford
367:Kilkerrin
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275:Dungannon
124:based in
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46:1875–1909
1539:Longford
1466:Scotland
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1084:Scotland
1060:Pembroke
1015:Cardigan
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431:Yeomanry
383:Limerick
331:disaster
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1065:Suffolk
1050:Norfolk
863:Lt-Col
801:Burke's
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371:Tarbert
351:Belfast
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297:History
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1559:Tyrone
1457:Jersey
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1336:London
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