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A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1828. From 1859 there was a corps of the Shropshire Rifle Volunteers, later the 4th Bn. King's Shropshire Light … a battery of the 1st Shropshire & Staffordshire Artillery Volunteers opened a drill hall in King Street, which the … were not numerous before the 20th century. The infantry volunteers had a band by 1798 53 as did the rifle volunteers …
A History of the County of Stafford
… a manual fire-engine at West Bromwich; it was manned by volunteers and kept at the premises of the company's agent in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… hall, was open by 1869. It was designed to serve also as a Volunteers' drill hall and soon after was being used solely …
A History of the County of Essex
… Edwards museum. 123 The Loyal United East Ham and West Ham Volunteers appear to have been formed in 1798. 124 In 1803, … formed after 1803, was demobilized in 1807. 125 When the volunteers were revived in the 1860s an artillery depot was … E. Nat. xxi. 6277. F. J. Wilkinson, The West Ham Volunteers (17981814) [Duplicated TS, 1961]. Ibid. Kelly's …
Old and New London
… Walcheren expedition. Pitt was colonel of the Cinque Ports Volunteers, and hence his military funeral. The crowd outside … St. James's, by Pall Mall and Charing Cross, lines of volunteers en haye, keeping the ground. I recollect the Whig …
Old and New London
… The butts were a large mound of turf, and at them the volunteers used to shoot. They were close to the "Five …