Part-time military force in the maritime county of Devonshire
The Devon Militia was a part-time military force in the maritime county of Devonshire in the West of England. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in 1558 until their final service as a Special Reserve unit of the Devonshire Regiment in World War I, the Militia regiments of Devonshire served in home defence in all of Britain's major wars.
The DevonMilitia was a part-time military force in the maritime county of Devonshire in the West of England. From their formal organisation as Trained...
The North DevonMilitia, later the Devon Artillery Militia, was a part-time military unit in the maritime county of Devonshire in the West of England....
The 1st or East DevonMilitia, later the 3rd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, was a part-time military unit in the maritime county of Devonshire in the...
The South DevonMilitia was a part-time military unit in the maritime county of Devonshire in the West of England. The Militia had always been important...
The Devon Trained Bands were a part-time militia force recruited from Devonshire in South West England, first organised in 1558. They were periodically...
Barnstaple, and of Umberleigh House, Umberleigh, Lt. Col. of the North DevonMilitia 1779-93), MP for Barnstaple 1780-84. He is not however stated in his...
George Dare Dowell, VC (15 February 1831 – 3 August 1910) was a Royal Marines officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry...
Edmond Nathaniel William Fortescue (born 1777), a major in the South DevonMilitia, who was the proprietor of Fallapit in 1810. The house was rebuilt circa...
chiefly at Salisbury Grammar. He obtained a post as ensign in the East DevonMilitia when he was eleven. In 1787 he entered his father's regiment, the 50th...
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. In 1633 he was Colonel of a regiment of Devon Trained Band Horse. With the end of the Anglo-Spanish War in 1604, there...
additional regiments, the Nottinghamshire Militia and the North DevonMilitia. The colonel of the North DevonMilitia at the time was John Parker, the second...
1st DevonMilitia guarding French prisoners at Exeter. On being relieved by the 3rd DevonMilitia, the 1st Somersets went to relieve the 4th Devon Militia...
politician, landowner and colonel of the East DevonMilitia who was born and lived at Kitley House, Yealmpton, Devon. He married Sarah Wymondesold of East Lockinge...
the 3rd (Militia) Battalion was one of the 23 infantry militia battalions to disband, and so the 4th was renumbered at the 3rd. The Devons fielded 28...
Crimean War. He later became Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 1st DevonMilitia from 1858 to 1867. He was elected Liberal MP for Barnstaple at the 1859...
regular or "line" battalions and two militia battalions. In Ireland, there were to be two line and three militia battalions. This was done by renaming...
the parish of Landkey in North Devon, where it is first recorded in 1155. Acland was Colonel of the 1st DevonMilitia, formed to protect Great Britain...
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