Great Britain (Militia)

Somersetshire

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Militia of Engand and Wales
 
1759: 1st Somersetshire
Regiment of Militia
2nd Somersetshire
Regiment of Militia
1778: county precedence 3
county precedence 3
1779: county precedence 20
county precedence 20
1780: county precedence 29
county precedence 29
1781: county precedence 21
county precedence 21
1782: county precedence 21
county precedence 21
1793: county precedence 40
county precedence 40
1803: county precedence 9
county precedence 9
1833: 16th, or
1st Somersetshire
Regiment of Militia
47th, or
2nd Somersetshire
Regiment of Militia
Somersetshire-First
Somersetshire-Second
1875: 16th, or
1st Somersetshire Light Infantry
Regiment of Militia
47th, or
2nd Somersetshire Light Infantry
Regiment of Militia
Somersetshire-1st
Somersetshire-2nd
The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
1881: 3rd (1st Somerset Militia)
Battalion,
Prince Albert’s Light Infantry
(Somersetshire Regiment)

4th (2nd Somerset Militia)
Battalion,
Prince Albert’s Light Infantry
(Somersetshire Regiment)

Somerset-3B
Somerset-4B
Conversion of the Miltia into the Special Reserve
1908: 3rd (Reserve) Battalion,
Prince Albert’s Light Infantry
(Somersetshire Regiment)
disbanded
Somersetshire
Renaming of the Special Reserve
into the Militia
1921: suspended animation
Renaming of the Militia into
the Supplementary Reserve
1924:
1953: disbanded