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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.
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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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He was Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk from 1757 and took an active part in reforming the county militia in 1758 during the Seven Years' War. He appointed the Hon George Townshend and Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet , as the colonels of the West and East Norfolk Regiments respectively.
The long-standing national Militia of the United Kingdom was revived by the Militia Act 1852 (15 & 16 Vict. c. 50), 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).
On 18 December 1802 he was commissioned as a Captain in the East Norfolk Militia. He was promoted to be the regiment's Major on 7 March 1804 and its Lieutenant-Colonel on 7 May 1805. He commanded the regiment during its deployment to the Sussex Coast during the invasion scare of 1805, but resigned his commission on 19 May 1806.