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Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) |
In 1685, King James II of England, recognising the threat to his throne from the Duke of Monmouth, commissioned Theophilus, the 7th Earl of Huntingdon, to raise a Regiment of foot soldiers. This Regiment was to be known as the Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment and would eventually be called the Somerset Light Infantry.
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Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry |
The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry (SCLI) was formed on 6th October 1959 on the amalgamation
of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) and The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. The new Regiment consisted of the 1st Battalion at Osnabrück in West Germany, the 4th/5th Battalion
Som LI (Territorial Army), the 4th/5th Battalion DCLI (Territorial Army), the Regimental Depot at Bodmin
and Regimental Headquarters at Taunton.
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West Somerset Yeomanry |
Their Ancestors were the men of the "Loyal Corps of Volunteer Cavalry" raised on the 25th July 1794 at
Milverton under the command of Lord Somerville. The first record of the Regiment as West Somerset Yeomanry is
in 1850.
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North Somerset Yeomanry |
The History of the North Somerset Yeomanry started in 1798, when a Cavalry Troop was raised by James A Wickham at Frome and was known as the Frome and Selwood Volunteers. It numbered about 60 strong and as one of a great many units raised that year all over England it had the job of protecting local towns and villages in the event of invasion by the Napoleonic forces.
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Somerset Militia, Rifle Volunteers and Territorials |
As far back as Anglo-Saxon times, all freemen between the ages of fifteen and sixty years of age accepted the
liability to serve in the Fyrd, or General Levy, when required to do so. This General Levy was
remodelled after the Norman Conquest - the last large-scale invasion of our shores - and to its function
of home defence was added another, aid of the civil power. The General Levy was organised and paid for
on a shire basis, a system which went on through successive reorganisations of the force as "Musters",
"Commissions of Army", "Trained Bands", and "Militia", until 1908 when the Territorial Army was created.
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The Light Infantry and its successor regiment, The Rifles |
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