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The overall size of the Roman forces in Roman Britain grew from about 40,000 in the mid 1st century AD to a maximum of about 55,000 in the mid 2nd century. [1] The proportion of auxiliaries in Britain grew from about 50% before 69 AD to over 70% in c. 150 AD. By the mid-2nd century, there were about 70 auxiliary regiments in Britain, for a ...
The Auxiliary Units, Home Guard Shock Squads[1] or GHQ Auxiliary Units were specially trained, highly secret quasi military units created by the British government during the Second World War with the aim of using irregular warfare in response to a possible invasion of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany. With the advantage of having witnessed ...
List of Roman auxiliary regiments. This article lists auxilia, non-legionary auxiliary regiments of the imperial Roman army, attested in the epigraphic record, by Roman province of deployment during the reign of emperor Hadrian (r. AD 117–138). The index of regimental names explains the origin of the names, most of which are based on the ...
The British Colonial Auxiliary Forces were the various military forces (each composed of one or more units or corps) of Britain's colonial empire which were not considered part of the British Army proper. Whether a British ("Home" or "Colonial") military unit or corps was considered part of the British Army was ultimately decided by whether it ...
Royal Gibraltar Regiment - 1 + 0 battalion [ 44 ] Royal Bermuda Regiment - 0 + 1 battalion [ 45 ] Royal Montserrat Defence Force - 0 + 1 platoon [ 46 ] Cayman Islands Regiment - 0 + 1 company [ 46 ] Turks and Caicos Regiment - 0 + 1 platoon [ 46 ] Falkland Islands Defence Force - 0 + 1 company [ 47 ]
Auxilia. Roman auxiliary infantry crossing a river, probably the Danube, on a pontoon bridge during the emperor Trajan 's Dacian Wars (101–106 AD). They can be distinguished by the oval shield (clipeus) they were equipped with, in contrast to the rectangular scutum carried by legionaries. Panel from Trajan's Column, Rome.
The Royal Berkshire Militia was an auxiliary [ a ] military regiment in the county of Berkshire in Southern England. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands, in 1572 and their service during the Armada Crisis and in the English Civil War, the Militia of Berkshire served during times of international tension and all of Britain's major wars.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS; often pronounced as an acronym) was the women's branch of the British Army during the Second World War. It was formed on 9 September 1938, initially as a women's voluntary service, and existed until 1 February 1949, when it was merged into the Women's Royal Army Corps. The ATS had its roots in the Women's ...