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An East Norfolk Militia button believed to date from 1770–80 has "E" over NORFOLK over "B" (for Battalion). A button from ca 1780–1800 has an ornate 'EN' within an eight-pointed cut star. [ 97 ] The officers' buttons until 1881 carried the castle and lion within a crowned garter inscribed EAST NORFOLK.
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The Norfolk Trained Bands were a part-time military force in the English county of 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 during the Rising of the North in 1569 and the Armada Crisis of 1588.
Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet, as Colonel of the East Norfolk Militia, portrait c.1759 by David Morier. Colonel Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet (c. 1714 – 21 May 1777), was an English Tory politician and militia officer. Wodehouse was born in 1714, the son of Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Baronet, and Mary Fermor.
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 1558 until their final service as the Special Reserve , the Militia regiments of the county carried out internal security and home defence duties in all of Britain's major wars.
The militia movement claims that militia groups are sanctioned by law but uncontrolled by government; in fact, they are designed to oppose a tyrannical government. The movement's ideology has led some adherents to commit criminal acts, including stockpiling illegal weapons and explosives and plotting to destroy buildings or assassinate public ...
Lord Wodehouse married Charlotte Laura Norris, daughter of John Norris, of Witton Park, Norfolk, in 1796. They had eleven children: [1] [2] Norris John Wodehouse (May 1798 – 25 May 1819) Henry Wodehouse (1799 – 29 April 1834), married Anne Gurdon and left two sons: John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (1826–1902)