• The Sussex Militia was an auxiliary military force in Sussex on the South Coast of England. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in 1572 they...
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    The British Militia was the principal military reserve force of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Militia units were repeatedly raised in Great Britain during...
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  • The Royal Sussex Light Infantry Militia, later the 3rd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, was an auxiliary regiment raised in Sussex on the South Coast...
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    Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond (category Sussex Militia officers)
    cavalry of the Sussex Yeomanry but was disbanded in December 1827. Richmond was appointed Colonel of the Royal Sussex Light Infantry Militia on 4 December...
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    Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond (category Sussex Militia officers)
    position he occupied until 1903. He served in the part-time Royal Sussex Light Infantry Militia, being promoted to lieutenant-colonel in command of its 2nd...
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  • The Royal Sussex Militia Artillery was a part-time reserve unit of Britain's Royal Artillery from the County of Sussex, which served from 1853 to 1909...
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    Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond (category Sussex Militia officers)
    by his fatal illness. Nevertheless, as Lord Lieutenant he raised the Sussex Militia for home defence and took personal command as Colonel (a position he...
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    Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough (category Sussex Militia officers)
    personally responsible (according to John Evelyn) at the head of the Sussex Militia for Monmouth's arrest, unarmed and bearded in a dry ditch covered with...
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    John Vallentin (category Sussex Militia officers)
    in South Africa where he was attached to the 3rd (Royal Sussex Militia) Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Following the end of hostilities, he left Cape...
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    Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester (category Sussex Militia officers)
    Clare College, Cambridge. Pelham was commissioned as a captain in the Sussex Militia when it was raised by the Duke of Richmond in June 1778, and was subsequently...
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  • Sir James Sibbald David Scott, 3rd Baronet (category Sussex Militia officers)
    Oxford, and was a captain in the Royal Sussex Light Infantry Militia and its offshoot, the Royal Sussex Militia Artillery, from 21 April 1846 to 22 January...
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  • Sir John Fagg, 1st Baronet (category Sussex Militia officers)
    the Sussex Militia in 1648. In 1649, he purchased the manor of Wiston from John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet. From 1654 to 1659, Fagg was MP for Sussex in...
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    (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot and the 107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry), together with the Royal Sussex Light Infantry Militia and the...
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  • Lord Arthur Lennox (category Sussex Militia officers)
    retiring in 1854. He was made Lieutenant-colonel of the Royal Sussex Light Infantry Militia in 1854 and Lieutenant-colonel-commandant in 1860. He served...
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  • grouped with the 35th (Royal Sussex) and 107th Regiments of Foot and the Royal Sussex Light Infantry Militia. The 1st and 2nd Sussex Admin Bns were amalgamated...
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  • Herbert Morley (category Sussex Militia officers)
    the Tower of London. Morley was the son of Robert Morley of Glynde Place, Sussex and his wife Susanna Hodgson, daughter and heiress of Thomas Hodgson, of...
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    John Tufton, 2nd Baron Hothfield (category Sussex Militia officers)
    commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion of The Royal Sussex Regiment, a militia unit. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1893 before applying to...
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    visiting many countries of the world. He served for three years in the Sussex Militia. In February 1892, Combe was selected by the Conservative Association...
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    James Hayes Sadler (category Sussex Militia officers)
    Division, RA, in 1882 and Sussex Artillery (Eastern Division) RA in 1889, before becoming the Sussex Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia) in 1902.). He was promoted...
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    Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, (Henry Charles Albert David; born 15 September 1984) is a member of the British royal family. As the younger son of King...
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  • Sussex Military Camp, frequently shortened to Camp Sussex, was a training facility for the Permanent Active Militia and Non-Permanent Active Militia,...
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  • in the counties of Wiltshire, Suffolk and Norfolk. In Seaford, East Sussex, militia brought in by magistrates to quell the riots joined with the rioters...
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  • Sir William Thomas, 1st Baronet (category Sussex Militia officers)
    regiments of Sussex Militia in 1697. Thomas married Barbara Springet, daughter of Sir Herbert Springet, 1st Baronet MP for New Shoreham and Sussex. The title...
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  • Sir James Lloyd, 1st Baronet (category Sussex Militia officers)
    Martin Lloyd, 1st Baronet (21 May 1762 – 24 October 1844) was a Sussex landowner, militia officer and long-serving Member of Parliament, who was created...
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  • John Aldridge (British politician) (category Sussex Militia officers)
    Commandant of the part-time Royal Sussex Light Infantry Militia (later the 3rd and 4th battalions of Royal Sussex Regiment) on 27 October 1875. He was...
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  • privilege that was later exercised by the 1st Somerset Militia. It was actually a patrol of the Sussex Militia that captured the Duke hiding near Blandford Forum...
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    In 1853 he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the East Sussex Militia. Jocelyn was Member of Parliament for King's Lynn from 1842 to 1854...
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  • The Royal Wiltshire Militia was an auxiliary regiment of the British Army from the English county of Wiltshire. From their formal organisation as Trained...
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  • Victor Jaques (category Sussex Militia officers)
    lieutenant on 16 May 1915 in the 3rd (Special Reserve) battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment. His probationary period ended on 7 June 1916. Jaques was promoted...
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  • George Kirwan Carr Lloyd (category Sussex Militia officers)
    he lived in Sussex where he served as a militia officer, being appointed the first Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Royal Sussex Militia Artillery on...
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