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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 .
Members of the Norfolk Militia undergoing musket training in 1759. The British Militia was the principal military reserve force of the Kingdom of Great Britain.Militia units were repeatedly raised in Great Britain during the Georgian era for internal security duties and to defend against external invasions.
Royal Military Police (RMP) [33] 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]
Unlike the Home, Imperial Fortress, and Crown Dependency Militia and Volunteer units and forces that continued to exist after the First World War, although parts of the British military, most were not considered parts of the British Army [8] [9] unless they received Army Funds (as was the case for the Bermuda Militia Artillery and the Bermuda ...
The Hexham Butchers – North York Militia – (ordered to fire on anti-militia rioters who attacked them at Hexham in 1761) [51] 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 ...
Unlike the Home, Imperial Fortress and Crown Dependency Militia and Volunteer units and forces that continued to exist after the First World War, although parts of the British military, most were not considered parts of the British Army [37] [38] unless they received Army funds (as was the case for the Bermuda Militia Artillery and the Bermuda ...
34 Military Intelligence Company, Hampstead; 35 Military Intelligence Company, London; 5 Military Intelligence Battalion — Paired with 1 MI Btn Battalion Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Edinburgh; 51 Military Intelligence Company, Edinburgh/Glasgow; 52 Military Intelligence Company, Newcastle upon Tyne; 53 Military Intelligence Company ...
The Scottish military (as opposed to naval) forces merged with the English, with pre-existing regular Scottish regiments maintaining their identities, though command of the new British Army was from England. The Militia of England and Wales continued to be enacted separately from the Militia of Scotland (see Militia (Great Britain) and, for the ...