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By Colonel Sir WM. WATTS, K.C.B. 



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,| JpHE regimental colours and drum, subjects of 

 a gift by Mr. S. R. Baskett to the County 

 Museum, are of much interest, and also 

 importance, at this time, when the Home 

 Defences of the Empire are open to so 

 much criticism, and under so much 

 discussion. They have certainly found a 

 most suitable and proper resting place and 

 home within the walls of that Institution. 

 They also give a direct and striking evidence of the 

 patriotism of our forefathers in Dorset ; and also remove the 

 erroneous idea, so prevalent in the minds of many men, that 

 the Volunteer Forces of Great Britain took their origin and 

 were first constituted in the year 1859. 



The Army List of 1803 gives the following information 

 that Dorset possessed and maintained the following Auxiliary 

 and Voluntary Regiments and Corps 



Dorset Militia Regiment, 



Colonel Richard Bingham. 



