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George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor in a militia uniform. 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.
[2] [3] The oldest of these organisations was the Militia Force (also referred to as the 'Constitutional Force'), [4] whereby the Reserve Forces units mostly lost their own identities, and became numbered Territorial Force sub-units of regular British Army corps or regiments (the Home Militia had followed this path, with the Militia Infantry ...
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.
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the Ministry of Defence, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.As of 1 July 2024, the British Army comprises 74,296 regular full-time personnel, 4,244 Gurkhas, 25,934 volunteer reserve personnel and 4,612 "other personnel", for a total of 109,086.
Army Legal Services (ALS) [32] Provost Branch [32] 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
The Berwickshire Militia, later the Berwickshire, Haddington, Linlithgow and Peebles Militia (BHL&P Militia), was an auxiliary regiment of the British Army recruited across South-East Scotland. First organised after the restoration of Charles II, it was reformed in 1802 and later converted to artillery. It served in home defence in all of ...
Joint Cyber Unit (Reserve), at Northwood Headquarters [66] Reserve Cyber Unit, Royal Naval Reserve [67] No. 600 (City of London) Squadron RAuxAF, at RAF Northolt [68] No. 614 (County of Glamorgan) Squadron RAuxAF, at Cardiff [69] Land Information Assurance Group, (British Army), at MoD Corsham [70] Joint Forces Intelligence Group, at RAF Wyton [71]
Air defence units and formations of the British Army (6 C, 7 P) Armoured units and formations of the British Army (5 C, 4 P) Artillery units and formations of the British Army (1 C, 13 P)