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The East Norfolk Militia was an auxiliary military unit in the English county of Norfolk in East Anglia. First organised during the Seven Years' War it carried out internal security and home defence duties in all of Britain's major wars. It later became a battalion of the Norfolk Regiment, but was disbanded in 1908.
A musician of the West Norfolk Militia, and the only known image of a West Norfolk Militia uniform in the public domain. 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.
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.
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An officer of the East Norfolk Militia, which later became 4th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment. The regiment saw action at Kabul in August 1842 during the First Anglo-Afghan War [42] and at the Battle of Mudki and the Battle of Ferozeshah in December 1845 [43] and the Battle of Sobraon in February 1846 during the First Anglo-Sikh War. [44]
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1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers; 1st Norfolk Battery, Royal Field Artillery; 2nd Norfolk Militia; 4th (2nd Norfolk Militia) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment; 284th (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment (1st East Anglian), Royal Artillery; 335th (Norfolk) Field Battery, Royal Artillery