page_title: Militia and Volunteers of Northumberland
section_title: Volunteers
hierarchical_section_title: Militia and Volunteers of Northumberland / Volunteers
caption_attribution_description: English: Service helmet of the 1st Volunteer Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers 1883-1893. From the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers museum, Alnwick Castle
context_page_description: The Militia and Volunteers of Northumberland are those military units raised in the County independent of the regular Army. The "modern" militia dates from legislation enacted during the Seven Years' War. The volunteers had several forms and separate periods of existence until made a permanent body in 1859.
context_section_description: It was initially intended in an Act of 1778 to permit volunteers to augment the militia, however only 14 companies had been added nationwide by 1780. In 1782 a new act, (22 Geo III c.79), allowed raising of volunteer forces by local subscription, with a wealthy land-owners or businessman providing most of the funding, but with the government paying them for any service and allowing the men to be court-marshalled  only under volunteer officers.
caption: Service helmet of an officer of the 1st Volunteer Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers 1883–1893. From the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers museum, Alnwick Castle
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