Records of the Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry: To which is Added the Fencible and Provisional Cavalry of the Same County from 1780 to 1908; Together with the Account of the 43rd and 44th Squadrons of Imperial Yeomanry, who Volunteered for the South African War 1900 |
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Records of the Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry: To Which Is Added the Fencible and ... John Robert Harvey No preview available - 2018 |
Records of the Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry: To Which Is Added the Fencible and ... John Robert Harvey No preview available - 2018 |
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10th Hussars Adjutant appointed April arms Army assembled Bart Battalion Blofield Buckworth Buxton Capt Charles Loftus Colonel commanding officer Cornet Cornet John corps of Yeomanry county of Norfolk Dragoons drill East Dereham Edmund Fakenham Fencible file Captain Lieut force Frederick Duleep Singh G. C. Buxton gentlemen George H. A. Barclay Hall Hay Gurney Hillington HINGHAM TROOP honour Imperial Yeomanry Infantry inspected J. R. Harvey John Harvey July June Kerrison King Lancers Lieut.-Col Lieutenant Light Horse Volunteers London Lord Lord-Lieutenant Loyal Suffolk Hussars Majesty Major Loftus March Market Place Marquis Townshend Master Mayor military Militia mounted volunteers non-commissioned officers Norfolk Chronicle Norfolk Imperial Yeomanry Norfolk Rangers NORFOLK YEOMANRY CAVALRY Norwich Light Horse Norwich Mercury parade Prince Rainham rank and file received REGIMENT OF NORFOLK Sept Sergeant SOUTH WALSHAM Suffolk Yeomanry Thomas TROOP Captain Lieut Tunstead West Norfolk William Wodehouse Wolferton Yarmouth
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Page 124 - RESOLVED, Nemine Contradicente, THAT the Thanks of this House be given to the Officers of the several Corps of...
Page 124 - Britain and Ireland during the course of the war; and that the same be communicated to them, by the commanding officers of the several corps, who are desired to thank them for their meritorious conduct.
Page 124 - That this House doth highly approve of, and acknowledge the services of the noncommissioned officers and men of the several corps of...
Page 46 - The rapidity with which these Volunteers were raised would be flattering to the national vanity were it not susceptible of a commonplace explanation. By a certain clause in the Act Volunteers were exempted from service in the Militia, upon producing a certificate that they had attended exercise punctually during six weeks previously to the hearing of appeals against the Militia list. This dissociation of the Volunteers from the Militia was a great and disastrous blunder, which has never yet been...
Page 96 - Highness will have the opportunity of judging by honouring Holkham with your presence in the autumn. I have the satisfaction to assure your Royal Highness from every enquiry I have been able to make, all descriptions of people, from the biggest to the lowest, are equally zealous to exert their utmost powers to repel the French and to fight to the last gasp in defence of their King and Country. " Military operations are forming in every part of this County, the Merchants and inhabitants of Lynn and...
Page 32 - Spain on their own coasts ; those of my kingdoms have remained at the same time perfectly secure, and your domestic tranquillity uninterrupted. This respectable state, under the blessing of God, I attribute to the entire confidence which subsists between me and my people, and to the readiness which has been shown by my subjects in my city of London, and in other parts of my kingdoms, to stand forth in the general defence.
Page 68 - between London and Ipswich any ground on which three squadrons of horse can form without being in reach of musketeers from the hedgerows in their front and flank ? Of what use then, in God's name, is cavalry when they cannot form to charge ? for if they cannot form they cannot charge." He quoted the success and efficiency of the French mounted chasseurs in Italy and in other campaigns, and pleaded with great eloquence and force for the introduction of similar corps in England ; but he was not sanguine...
Page 326 - Majesty, they would mentally include the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.
Page 311 - I have to inform your Lordship that Her Majesty has been Graciously Pleased to direct that that Corps shall be formed into a Light Infantry Kegimeut. " I have the honor, &c., " SH WALPOLE. " The EAUL OF HAREWOOD, <tc., <tc., Harewood Haute, Leeds.
Page 122 - Majesty's pleasure upon these points to the several corps of Yeomanry and Volunteer Cavalry, within your county, your Lordship can offer no better recommendation to them, than to adhere to that line of conduct by which they have deservedly acquired the honourable distinction of being considered as...