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  2. East Norfolk Militia - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Norfolk Artillery Militia - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. Norfolk Militia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Category:Norfolk Militia - Wikipedia

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  7. Norfolk Trained Bands - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Sir Jacob Astley, 5th Baronet - Wikipedia

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    His father Edward was MP for Norfolk for twenty-two years and gave it up in 1790 rather than contest it. Jacob was given a commission as a captain in the East Norfolk Militia in 1780, which he held until 1794, when he was made lieutenant colonel in the Norfolk Fencible Light Dragoons, a role he held for

  9. Sir William ffolkes, 3rd Baronet - Wikipedia

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    He was a captain in the Norfolk Artillery Militia and was a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant. In 1876 he was High Sheriff of Norfolk. [2] ffolkes stood for parliament unsuccessfully at King's Lynn in 1874. At the 1880 general election he was elected Member of Parliament for King's Lynn. He held the seat until defeated in 1885. [3]