The 1st Somerset Militia was an auxiliary military unit in the county of Somerset in South West England. First organised during the Seven Years' War it served on internal security and home defence dut
1st Somerset Militia shako plate 1861–80
A private and sergeant of the Somerset Militia in 1759
1796 caricature of the Supplementary Militia by James Gillray
A Somerset Militia private and lieutenant between 1812–1816
The South Hampshire Light Infantry Militia was an auxiliary military regiment in the county of Hampshire on England's South Coast. First organised during the Seven Years' War it carried out internal s
Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet, in the uniform of the South Hampshire Militia, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds ca 1776–6.
Portrait of Lady Worsley by Reynolds, 1779. Lady Worsley in a riding habit adapted from the uniform of her husband's regiment, which she wore at Coxheath Camp.
Serle's House, former Regimental HQ, now the Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum.