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An East Norfolk Militia button believed to date from 1770–80 has "E" over NORFOLK over "B" (for Battalion). A button from ca 1780–1800 has an ornate 'EN' within an eight-pointed cut star. [97] The officers' buttons until 1881 carried the castle and lion within a crowned garter inscribed EAST NORFOLK. [18]
The Norfolk Militia was an auxiliary military force in the English county of Norfolk in East Anglia. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in 1558 until their final service as the Special Reserve , the Militia regiments of the county carried out internal security and home defence duties in all of Britain's major wars.
Meanwhile, the General Militia in Norfolk had fallen into abeyance. While there was a brief muster of the General Militia in some counties during the Penruddock uprising of 1655, there is no evidence that the Norfolk County TBs were mustered. and the Council only proposed to mobilise one regiment (under Wood) during the invasion scare of 1656.
Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet, as Colonel of the East Norfolk Militia, portrait c.1759 by David Morier. Colonel Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet (c. 1714 – 21 May 1777), was an English Tory politician and militia officer. Wodehouse was born in 1714, the son of Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Baronet, and Mary Fermor.
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[1] [2] On 10 October 1793 he was commissioned as Captain in the East Norfolk Militia commanded by his father. On 14 July 1798 he was promoted to take over from his father as Colonel, the third generation of his family to command the regiment. In 1842 he was succeeded in command by his own son, Berkeley. [1] [3]
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