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George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor in a militia uniform. The British Militia was the principal military reserve force of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Militia units were repeatedly raised in Great Britain during the Victorian and Edwardian eras for internal security duties and to defend against external invasions.
[2] [3] The oldest of these organisations was the Militia Force (also referred to as the 'Constitutional Force'), [4] whereby the Reserve Forces units mostly lost their own identities, and became numbered Territorial Force sub-units of regular British Army corps or regiments (the Home Militia had followed this path, with the Militia Infantry ...
In the Kingdom of Ireland, a client state of Great Britain, the equivalent force was the Irish Militia, which saw heavy service in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 alongside British militia units. The existence of militia units in Great Britain and Ireland played an important role in freeing regular troops from the British and Irish establishments ...
The Berwickshire Militia, later the Berwickshire, Haddington, Linlithgow and Peebles Militia (BHL&P Militia), was an auxiliary regiment of the British Army recruited across South-East Scotland. First organised after the restoration of Charles II, it was reformed in 1802 and later converted to artillery. It served in home defence in all of ...
Units or individuals from the militia, retaining their non-overseas service status, joining A.I.F. units or formations for which the patch was manufactured with a grey border, removed or trimmed the border back. The system, initially for identifying militia and A.I.F units, to one identifying individuals, caused some confusion.
Military Provost Staff (MPS) [34] Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS) [35] Royal Corps of Army Music - 14 + 20 bands [36] Royal Army Chaplains' Department - approx. 150 [37] Small Arms School Corps [38] Royal Army Physical Training Corps [39] General Service Corps; Royal Army Medical Service - 9 + 15 units [40] Royal Army Veterinary Corps - 2 ...
Joint Cyber Unit (Reserve), at Northwood Headquarters [66] Reserve Cyber Unit, Royal Naval Reserve [67] No. 600 (City of London) Squadron RAuxAF, at RAF Northolt [68] No. 614 (County of Glamorgan) Squadron RAuxAF, at Cardiff [69] Land Information Assurance Group, (British Army), at MoD Corsham [70] Joint Forces Intelligence Group, at RAF Wyton [71]
Air defence units and formations of the British Army (6 C, 7 P) Armoured units and formations of the British Army (5 C, 4 P) Artillery units and formations of the British Army (1 C, 13 P)