Suffolk Militia
Auxiliary military force in Suffolk, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Suffolk Militia was an auxiliary[lower-alpha 1] military force in the county of Suffolk on the East Coast of England.[lower-alpha 2] From their formal organisation as Trained bands in 1558 until their final service as the Special Reserve, the Militia regiments of the county served in home defence in all of Britain's major wars, seeing action in the Second Dutch War, serving in Ireland and the Channel Islands, and training thousands of reinforcements during World War I. After a shadowy postwar existence they were formally disbanded in 1953.