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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.
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.
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.
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The men were paired with a militia escort and when the signal was given, [24] the militiamen turned and shot the male members of the Baker–Fancher party standing by their side. The women and children were then ambushed and killed by more militia that were hiding in nearby bushes and ravines. Members of the militia were sworn to secrecy.
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He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel commanding the East Norfolk Militia on 16 March 1860 and of the 1st Norfolk Administrative Battalion of Artillery Volunteers on 2 December 1864. He later became Honorary Colonel of both units' successors, the 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment and the 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers (31 December 1881).