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Bedfordshire
Volunteer Regiments
As
well as the Bedfordshire Regiment existed some Volunteer Regiments,
in 1806 these comprised of:
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Bedford
Infantry under Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Whitbread,
a total of 418 men whose uniform was red with green collar
and cuffs with blue breeches/pantaloons.
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Bedfordshire
Cavalry under Colonel The Earl of Upper Ossory, a total
of 142 men whose uniform was blue with red collar and cuffs,
the officers wearing gold lace, the buttons were gold and
the breeches/pantaloons blue.
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Bedfordshire
Infantry also under Colonel The Earl of Upper Ossory,
a total of 1,300 men whose uniform was red with green collar
and cuffs, the officers wearing gold lace, the buttons were
gold and the breeches/pantaloons blue.
- Bedfordshire
Yeomanry founded as a volunteer cavalry unit in 1794,
disbanded in 1827, refounded as the Duke of Manchester's Light
Horse Volunteers in 1859, disbanded c.1882; then re-founded
as Compton's Horse in 1899, served in South Africa, became
Bedfordshire Imperial Yeomanry in 1920, and converted to artillery
in 1920. The unit was only connected to yeoman farmers to
the extent that many of them joined its ranks.
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