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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.
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] Royal Army Veterinary Corps - 2 ...
Jersey Field Squadron (Royal Militia of the Isle of Jersey), in Saint Helier, Jersey. Guernsey Troop, at Saint Peter Port, Guernsey; 100 (Militia) Field Squadron, at Chapman House, Cwmbran [52] 1 Troop, at Artillery Grounds, Bristol [53] 2 Troop, in Llandaff, Cardiff [54] 108 (Welsh) Field Squadron (Militia), at John Chard VC House, Swansea [55]
Today, the British Army is the only Home British military force, including the various other forces it has absorbed, though British military units organised on Territorial Army lines remain in British Overseas Territories that are still not considered formally part of the British Army, with only the Royal Gibraltar Regiment and the Royal ...
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 [43] [44] unless they received Army funds (as was the case for the Bermuda Militia Artillery and the Bermuda ...
English militia of the period wore similar patterns of dress. The English Militia was the principal military reserve force of the Kingdom of England. Militia units were repeatedly raised in England from the Anglo-Saxon period onwards for internal security duties and to defend against external invasions.