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locally and recruited
It had been presumed that this title was by this time purely nominal, with auxiliary troops being recruited locally, but an inscription found in a recent season of excavations suggests that native Gauls were still to be found in the regiment and that they liked to distinguish themselves from British soldiers.
Internal security and public order by the Palestinian police force consisting of police officers recruited locally and from abroad ( holding Jordanian passports and Palestinian documents issued by Egypt ).
Two of those later convicted ( James McDowell and Thomas Crozier ) were also serving members of the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ), a part-time, locally recruited regiment of the British Army.
Union supporters joined the 35th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, a regiment recruited locally by James M. Shackelford ; Adam Rankin Johnson recruited Confederate troops for his 10th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment.
As governor of Iudaea, Pilate would have small auxiliary forces of locally recruited soldiers stationed regularly in Caesarea and Jerusalem, such as the Antonia Fortress, and temporarily anywhere else that might require a military presence.
Union supporters joined a regiment recruited locally by James Shackleford ; Al Fowler recruited Confederate troops.
" Colonel " Page, as he became known, was in truth an uniformed major in a locally recruited Spanish-American War militia.
Parliament decreed the consolidation of most of their forces outside the New Model Army into two other locally recruited armies, those of the Northern Association under Sydenham Poyntz and the Western Association under Edward Massey.
Sub-professional staff were almost all recruited locally and, wherever possible, local people were given scholarships and other support to be professionally trained.
From the late 19th century on the fez was widely adopted as the headdress of locally recruited " native " soldiers amongst the various colonial troops of the world.
The 2nd Infantry Division was known as the Sendai Division as it was based in Sendai, and recruited locally.
210 local staff are currently employed, managed by a single expatriate, while all other senior management positions are filled by locally recruited and trained staff.
( 47 ) A locally recruited part-time force, under the control of the G. O. C., Northern Ireland, should be raised as soon as possible for such duties as may be laid upon it.
During the period of European colonial empires in Africa, locally recruited soldiers were employed by Italian, British, Portuguese, German and Belgian colonial armies.
The designation of " askari " was retained for locally recruited troops in the King's African Rifles, smaller military units and police forces in the colonies until the end of British imperial rule in Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda during the period 1961-63.
The main concentration of such locally recruited troops was in German East Africa ( now Tanzania.
When in January 1941, British Commonwealth forces invaded Ethiopia in January 1941 most of the locally recruited ascaris deserted.
Exceptionally though, the term " askari " was also used by the Spanish colonial government in North-West Africa, in respect not of their regular Moroccan troops ( see regulares ), but of a locally recruited gendarmerie force raised in Spanish Morocco in 1913.
Most enlisted ranks were generally recruited locally.
Meanwhile the necessity for providing for the defence of the imperial territories against the Lombards led to the formation of local militias, who at first were attached to the imperial regiments, but gradually became independent, as they were recruited entirely locally.
Further ; a " locally recruited part-time force, under the control of the G. O. C., Northern Ireland, should be raised "... and that the " force, together with the police volunteer reserve, should replace the Ulster Special Constabulary.
During the period of the Crusades, turcopoles, turcoples, turcopoli or turcopoliers ( from the, " sons of Turks ") were locally recruited mounted archers employed by the Christian states of the Eastern Mediterranean.

locally and Ulster
Cookstown confidently bills itself as the ‘ Retail Capital of Mid Ulster ’ and is at the forefront of those towns which are reinventing retail and communicating the strength of the retailing offer to wider audiences, through a unique Cookstown brand identity ( Cookstown – Looking Good, Looking Great ) and aggressive marketing of the town locally and nationally.
In Ulster Scots-speaking areas there was traditionally a considerable demand for the work of Scottish poets, often in locally printed editions.
In 1913 they formed the Ulster Volunteers ( UVF ), an armed wing of Ulster Unionism and organised locally by the Orange Order ; the Ulster Volunteers stated that they would resist Home Rule by force.
A holy well dedicated to Coca, formerly thought to be lost in the back-yards of Kilcock, is known locally to be in the area behind the Ulster Bank, and her feast is remembered on 6 June.
As the Irish name of the lake, ' the place where pigs swim ', suggests, the area is associated with the Black Pig's Dyke ( also known locally in parts of Counties Cavan and Monaghan as the Worm Ditch ), an ancient Iron Age boundary of Ulster.
The dish is mostly associated with the north midlands, north Connacht and southern Ulster, in particular the counties of Mayo, Sligo, Donegal ( where it is known locally as poundy or poundies ; also known as potato bread in Ulster ), Fermanagh, Longford, Leitrim and Cavan.
In 1859 the Christian Revival that swept Ulster arrived in Greenisland and an open air service was held in the field below Longfield Farm ( now known locally as Johnstone Farm ) which is still standing on the Station Road.

locally and Defence
The Westminster ( United Kingdom ) Parliament would continue to meet and legislate on matters of UK-wide competence such as Defence, Foreign Affairs and economic matters with the parliaments of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland legislating locally.
.... the force is raised locally for the purpose of assisting the Imperial Authorities ... and it amounts to the Union Government having allowed the Imperial Authorities to recruit men in South Africa for this force ..... as it is certainly not raised under the Defence Act of the Union of South Africa, and this being the case, the Union Government can grant no commissions.
On behalf of the Chief of the Defence Staff ( CDS ), the Director General Personnel and Family Support Services ( DGPFSS ) acts as the Managing Director for Non-Public Property and establishes the policies and provides functional oversight for the many NPP programs and activities delivered locally at Bases and Messes.
Housing to accommodate what was later to become the Ministry of Defence Police was provided locally in Bishopton.
The first rebellion involved a locally recruited force known as the Arakan Defence Army turning on the Japanese in Arakan.

locally and Regiment
After the Japanese surrender in 1945 and the return of Singapore to British rule, the island became the base of the locally enlisted First Singapore Regiment of the Royal Artillery ( 1st SRRA ) in 1947.
Its longtime militia unit has been The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment ( locally known as the Hasty Ps ), whose most famous member was Farley Mowat.
Two Regiment officers serving with the APL at Dhala decided to amuse themselves by going out to shoot some of the hamadryas baboons ( locally referred to as " rock apes ").
Until the early 1980s, the regiment's administrative headquarters ( RHQ ) was at Brock Barracks, Reading, Berkshire, with a secondary or subsidiary headquarters at Le Marchant Barracks, Devizes, Wiltshire, but by 1982 a single RHQ had been permanently established in the Cathedral Close at Salisbury, Wiltshire, with the DERR regimental museum ,-including the museum collections of the former Royal Berkshire Regiment and the Wiltshire Regiment-established on the ground floor of the same historic building, which had for several centuries been known locally as The Wardrobe, with the building certainly dating back to the 15th Century, but possibly to as early as 1254.
In addition to his locally recruited pensioners, Lawrence also had the bulk of the British 32nd Regiment of Foot available, and they were able to drive the rebels away from the city.
The first locally raised militia in Hong Kong was the Hong Kong Volunteers, a fore runner of what was to become the Royal Hong Kong Regiment ( The Volunteers ).
James Chisholm and his partner, William Logie ( a captain in the XIII Regiment ), took a leading role in organizing locally and in lobbying Ottawa.
During the First World War the 66th Regiment provided soldiers to the locally raised battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force ( CEF ).

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