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The Essex Regiment was formed in 1881 by the union of the 44th (East Essex) and 56th (West Essex) Regiments of Foot, which became the 1st and 2nd battalions respectively of the new regiment. This merger was part of the Childers Reforms of the British Army, which also saw the East Essex Militia and West Essex Militia joining the Essex Regiment ...
The Hexham Butchers – North York Militia – (ordered to fire on anti-militia rioters who attacked them at Hexham in 1761) [53] The Hindoostan Regiment – 76th Foot [1] The Holy Boys – 9th Regiment of Foot later The Norfolk Regiment [1] [3] (from their Britannia badge, misidentified as the Virgin Mary) The Horse Doctors – Royal Army ...
According to historian Mark Adkin, at the end of 1809 there were 103 regiments of foot in the British Army (the most junior being the 103rd), and the South Essex's designation would have been the 102nd, but it never received an official numerical designation, possibly because it was originally composed largely of militia soldiers, because it ...
An ensign of the 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot with regimental colour, attended by a colour sergeant armed with a spontoon, 1813. The colours, flags, of a British Army infantry regiment serve to identify the unit and mark a rallying point for its troops.
A force of militia volunteers sent as recruits to the 56th arrived as a garrison in Goa in mid-1810. It joined the first battalion in 1811, and the Indian Ocean detachment returned later that year. To mark the regiment's services in India, it received a new pair of colours as a gift from the Honourable East India Company. [27]
In colonial era Anglo-American usage, militia service was distinguished from military service in that the latter was normally a commitment for a fixed period of time of at least a year, for a salary, whereas militia was only to meet a threat, or prepare to meet a threat, for periods of time expected to be short. Militia persons were normally ...
The East York Militia was a part time ... [28] The East York Militia was at Warley Camp in Essex in the summer of 1778 and ... with the Union flag in the canton ...
British War Office (22 June 1797), List of the officers of the several regiments and corps of fencible cavalry and infantry: of the officers of the militia [etc.] (5 ed.), p. 1 (contents). British War Office (1800), A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines, G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, p. 16