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Infantry refused to transfer and resigned; the
Kettering Volunteer Infantry continued to serve as volunteers under the old regulations. The remainder of the Northamptonshire units appear to have transferred to the Local Militia. The Local Militia was disbanded throughout the country at the end of the war in 1814.
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regiments in many
English counties in 1794. Officered by the aristocracy and gentry, and mainly recruited from their tenants, these cavalry units were as much for internal security against revolutionary elements as for defence against invasion. Several of these units went on to have a long history as
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were given authority to form volunteer associations, and
Northamptonshire formed the first of these, on 4 April 1744. The proposal was signed by 530 'substantial freeholders, yeomen and yeomen's sons', and unlike most such associations they were willing to serve in any part of the realm, and not only
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At first the service of these
Volunteers was restricted to their own county, later it was extended to a district. The Northamptonshire Volunteers were initially assigned to a district of Midland counties, later changed to a district of East Anglian counties. In 1804 the Volunteers were consolidated
54:, dated from 1763, and a regiment of Northampton Fencibles was raised in 1794. The Volunteers remained part-time soldiers who might be called out for local defence in time of invasion or crisis. From 1859 they became a permanent part of the army's auxiliary forces, and after integration into the
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No
Artillery Volunteer Corps was raised in Northamptonshire during the period of the Volunteer Force. However, when the Territorial Force was established in 1908, the Peterborough companies of 1st Volunteer Bn, Northamptonshire Regiment (G and H Companies, formerly the 6th Northamptonshire Rifle
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Early in 1809 the
Volunteers were asked to commute their service into a new Local Militia. The two Northamptonshire volunteer regiments became the East and West Regiments, with a new Central Regiment formed under the command of Lt-Col Thomas Samwell. The Castle Ashby and Northampton Volunteer
450:. After the war, a number of these mounted infantry units were reorganised as permanent units of the auxiliary forces, including the Northamptonshire Imperial Yeomanry. When the Imperial Yeomanry became part of the Territorial Force in 1908, the Northamptonshire IY became the
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was passed to force every able-bodied man to be drilled unless sufficient volunteers were raised. This prompted volunteers to come forwards in vast numbers. Within a year some 40 companies of infantry and 16 troops of cavalry had been raised in
Northamptonshire:
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part of the auxiliary forces, but the first
Northamptonshire Yeomanry were disbanded as a regiment in 1828, leaving some independent troops that survived until the last were disbanded 1873.
17:
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Northampton EVC did not transfer to the Territorial Force and disbanded in 1908. However, a number of the men transferred to the new
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Northamptonshire, the formation of the Daventry Volunteers being approved on 15 June 1797. Soon afterwards
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In addition to the Yeomanry, many small volunteer units of horse and foot were raised in towns and villages during the Revolutionary War.
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composed of part-time soldiers who could be embodied for full-time national defence in time of war, sometimes augmented by full-time
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The 1st Northamptonshire Engineer Volunteer Corps was raised at Peterborough in 1867. Initially it was attached to the
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were raised from 1859 onwards as a group of originally separate RVCs. They later became the Volunteer Battalion of the
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The first time volunteers were organised on a national basis was in 1744 in response to a French invasion threat.
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has often been in the forefront of raising these units, both of horse and foot, whenever circumstances required.
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Volunteers parading in full uniform for the first time on 27 August 1797. The volunteers were disbanded at the
111:, but new volunteer units were raised in 1779 when Britain was again threatened by French invasion during the
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There are records of volunteers being raised in Northamptonshire in 1660 during the crisis that led to the
377:. Postwar they continued as an air defence unit until 1961 when they reverted to infantry as part of the
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raised a troop of light horse and a company of infantry and was followed by other towns, the
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in 1660, it has been supplemented by part-time volunteer units raised on a local basis.
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The Hertfordshire Batteries, Royal Field Artillery: An Illustrated History 1908–1920
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battalions were raised from volunteers for service in South Africa during the
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1st (East) Northamptonshire Regiment, under Lt-Col The Earl of Westmorland.
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The Territorial Artillery 1908–1988 (Their Lineage, Uniforms and Badges)
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the county's volunteers served in both world wars of the 20th century.
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The Volunteer Artillery 1859–1908 (Their Lineage, Uniforms and Badges)
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904:, Vol III, Chatham: Institution of Royal Engineers, reprint 1954.
401:. The unit sent a detachment of volunteers to assist the regular
241:
802:
Riflemen Form: A study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement 1859–1908
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Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory 1793–1815
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into larger regiments. There were two in Northamptonshire:
81:
309:
2nd (West) Northamptonshire, under Lt-Col John Clarke.
397:. It moved its attachment again in 1901, joining the
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1st Administrative Battalion of Northamptonshire RVCs
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An invasion scare in 1859 led to the creation of the
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for joining local Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVCs). The
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Kettering, 3 Companies commanded by George Robinson.
238:
Northampton, 3 Companies commanded by Earl Spencer.
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Northampton, 3 Companies commanded by Henry Locock.
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Northampton, 1 Troop, commanded by Dr William Kerr.
824:History of the Northamptonshire Regiment 1742–1934
965:Military units and formations in Northamptonshire
38:The principal reserve force for the army was the
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283:, or Prince of Wales's Volunteers, commanded by
491:4th East Anglian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
489:. The Northamptonshire Battery served with the
468:Northamptonshire Battery, Royal Field Artillery
414:Northamptonshire Battery, Royal Field Artillery
717:
715:
713:
817:The Development of the British Army 1899–1914
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768:
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641:Northamptonshire Volunteers at Regiments.org.
477:Volunteer Corps), were converted to form the
457:
18:1st Northamptonshire Engineer Volunteer Corps
485:and the East Midland Brigade Company of the
276:, 6 Companies, commanded by R.W. Cartwright.
710:
620:
618:
548:Northamptonshire Yeomanry at Regiments.org.
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193:, 1 Troop, commanded by J. Newton Goodhall.
833:, London: Allen Lane, 2013/Penguin, 2014,
765:
756:
754:
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395:2nd Tower Hamlets Engineer Volunteer Corps
351:1st Northamptonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
333:1st Northamptonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
322:
267:, 2 Companies, commanded by William Grant.
226:, 1 Company, commanded by Rev R. Crowther.
196:Northamptonshire, 11 Troops, commanded by
423:
399:1st Bedfordshire Engineer Volunteer Corps
208:William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam
178:When the war against France resumed, the
681:414–443 RA Rgts at British Army 1945 on.
670:564–591 RA Rgts at British Army 1945 on.
636:
634:
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493:in Palestine and was disbanded in 1919.
454:, which saw service in both world wars.
235:, 1 Company commanded by Thomas Scriven.
902:History of the Corps of Royal Engineers
751:
173:
135:
14:
957:
909:Royal Engineers (Volunteers) 1859–1908
876:The Mounted Troops of the British Army
844:Norman Litchfield & Ray Westlake,
761:East Anglian Bde RFA at Regiments.org.
82:Northampton Volunteer Association 1744
826:, Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1935.
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543:
541:
313:
72:Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland
863:, Nottingham: Sherwood Press, 1992,
848:, Nottingham: Sherwood Press, 1982,
452:Northamptonshire Yeomanry (Dragoons)
285:Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter
270:Daventry, commanded by John Clarke.
218:John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland
101:Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire
61:
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804:, Aldershot: Ogilby Trusts, 1982,
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25:
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926:, Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2010,
393:, but in 1872 transferred to the
105:John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu
911:, Wembley: R.A. Westlake, 1983,
256:Sir William Langham, 8th Baronet
198:George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer
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950:British Army units from 1945 on
878:, London: Seeley Service, 1959.
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345:and huge enthusiasm throughout
246:Sir William Dolben, 3rd Baronet
52:Northampton and Rutland Militia
651:Gurney, pp. 314–5 & 324–5.
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924:Tracing the Rifle Volunteers
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88:Lords-lieutenant of counties
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748:Litchfield & Westlake.
458:Territorial Artillery 1908
113:American Revolutionary War
434:Northamptonshire Yeomanry
355:Northamptonshire Regiment
254:, 1 Company commanded by
244:, 1 Company commanded by
206:, 3 Troops, commanded by
125:French Revolutionary Wars
97:Jacobite invasion of 1745
68:Restoration of Charles II
27:From the creation of the
859:Norman E.H. Litchfield,
819:, London: Methuen, 1938.
496:
479:Northamptonshire Battery
385:Engineer Volunteers 1867
881:Lt-Col J.D. Sainsbury,
822:Lt-Col Russell Gurney,
323:Volunteer Movement 1859
146:British Volunteer Corps
612:Beckett, Appendix VII.
424:Imperial Yeomanry 1902
379:Royal Anglian Regiment
180:Levy en Masse Act 1803
898:Sir Charles M. Watson
483:Royal Field Artillery
815:Col John K. Dunlop,
174:Volunteer Corps 1804
136:Volunteer Corps 1797
127:saw the creation of
29:British Regular Army
874:Col H.C.B. Rogers,
774:Litchfield, p. 101.
730:Dunlop, pp. 104-18.
696:Engineer Volunteers
660:Litchfield, p. 189.
558:Gurney, pp. 306–10.
357:and as part of the
48:Northampton Militia
800:Ian F.W. Beckett,
535:Rogers, pp. 145–8.
526:Gurney, pp. 305–6.
508:Gurney, pp. 312-3.
487:Army Service Corps
442:A large number of
361:saw action in the
314:Local Militia 1809
932:978-1-84884-211-3
839:978-0-141-03894-0
721:Sainsbury, p. 23.
466:See main article
444:Imperial Yeomanry
432:See main article
369:campaigns during
359:Territorial Force
331:See main article
214:Oundle and Cliffe
56:Territorial Force
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160:Northampton
795:References
694:Westlake,
624:Westlake,
418:see below
409:in 1901.
367:Palestine
363:Gallipoli
265:Towcester
170:in 1802.
164:Kettering
959:Category
698:, p. 13.
603:Beckett.
291:Boughton
274:Brackley
224:Spratton
156:Daventry
129:Yeomanry
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44:Fencible
481:of the
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