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Captain John Smith's 1624 map of Bermuda, showing contemporary fortifications.. The defence of the colony against an expected Spanish attack was the first concern of the first Governor of Bermuda, Richard Moore, when he and fifty-one other settlers arrived at Bermuda aboard the Plough on the 11 July 1612, to join the three men left behind in Bermuda from the 1609 wreck of the Sea Venture.
The Royal Bermuda Regiment (RBR) is the home defence unit of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda.It is a single territorial [2] infantry battalion that was formed on the amalgamation in 1965 of two originally voluntary units, the mostly black Bermuda Militia Artillery (BMA) and the almost entirely white Bermuda Rifles (titled the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (BVRC) until 1949), and the ...
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During the First World War, Cecil Montgomery-Moore was an enlisted man in the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps, attesting on 10 September 1915 (from 1 July 1910 to 10 September 1915, he had served in the Bermuda Cadet Corps).
The Bermuda Garrison was the military establishment maintained on the British Overseas Territory and Imperial fortress of Bermuda by the regular British Army and its local militia and voluntary reserves from 1701 to 1957. The garrison evolved from an independent company, to a company of Royal Garrison Battalion during the American War of ...
Media in category "Military of Bermuda" The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total. Bermuda - Warwick Camp in the 19th Century.jpg 10,482 × 5,693; 15.66 MB
The Bermuda Militia contingent was sent to Virginia to form the nucleus of a new regiment, the Caribbean Regiment. The Bermuda Militia contingent arrived on two ships on the 13th and 23 April 1944, to form the training cadre of the new regiment at Fort Eustis, a US Army base near Williamsburg, Virginia. Under the command of Lt. Colonel H ...
The BVRC was originally divided into three companies (A, B, and C), one each located in the West End, the centre, and the East End of Bermuda (these being the three military districts into which Bermuda was divided by the garrison, with the districts controlled respectively from Clarence Barracks on Boaz Island, Prospect Camp, and St. George's ...