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Band boy's tunic button of the North Durham Militia c. 1860s from the Durham Light Infantry museum. In 1852 a new Militia Act was passed that revived the militia, and County Durham was ordered to provide 1096 men (or 2000 men including artillery [22]). However, with the ballot having been suppressed in 1830, the response was weak.
The Durham Artillery Militia was a part-time reserve unit of Britain's Royal Artillery based in County Durham from 1853 to 1909. Volunteers from the unit served in the Second Boer War where they distinguished themselves fighting as infantry in the defence of Fort Prospect.
Victoria crown cap badge of the Durham Light Infantry (1881—1902) When the 68th Regiment of Foot and the 106th Regiment of Foot became the Durham Light Infantry (DLI) in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, seven pre-existing militia and volunteer battalions of County Durham were integrated into the structure of the DLI.
Monument to the Durham Light Infantry, Durham Marketplace. The Durham Light Infantry (DLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1968. It was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) and the 106th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Light Infantry) along with the Militia and Volunteers of ...
The Durham Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Non-Permanent Active Militia of the Canadian Militia (now the Canadian Army).In 1936, the regiment was Amalgamated with The Northumberland Regiment to form The Midland Regiment (which now forms part of The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment).
The 1st Durham Rifle Volunteers, later the 5th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry (5th DLI), was a part-time unit of the British Army from 1860 to the 1950s. Beginning from small independent corps of the Volunteer Force recruited in County Durham and Teesside, it became part of the Territorial Force and served as infantry in some of the bloodiest actions of the First World War.
0–9. 1st Durham (1st Durham and North Riding of York) Rifle Volunteer Corps; 1st Durham Engineers; 1st Durham Field Company, Royal Engineers; 1st Durham Fusiliers Militia
North Carolina Militia Command 1776 1783 BG John Ashe, Sr. [130] [131] 1st Battalion of Militia: Wilmington District Brigade 1776 1776 Col Thomas Brown [132] 2nd Battalion of Militia: Wilmington District Brigade 1776 1776 Colonel Peter Dozier [note 14] [133] [134] Bladen County Regiment: Wilmington District Brigade 1775 1783 Col Thomas Robeson ...