Royal Army (Great Nortend)

Royal Army
Active	1455 — present
Country	Great Nortend
Allegiance	Alexander II
Branch	Army
Size	80,388 (regular men) 10,482 (regular officers) 620,140 (mustermen) 130,220 (home servicemen) 2,760 (half-pay officers)
Engagements	Battle of Travlesea Battle of Borlockton
Commanders
Commander in Chief	Alexander II
The King's Marischal	The Most Honourable Margrave of Lasmere
Captain of the Forces	Captain-General Sir John Haughton KSA KCMM
Insignia
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The Royal Army of Great Nortend is the major land and terrestrial warfare and defence fore for Great Nortend. It is known fully as His Majesty's Officers and Men at Arms, and consists of a number of separate semi-independent corps, compagnies, troops, and regiments.

History

The present Royal Army was first established in 1455 with the raising of the Duke of Aldesey's Regiment, which is now known as the 1st Regiment of Foot, the Royal Narland Regiment, by the then Duke of Aldesey in the Succession Wars after the death of Charles II in a hunting accident in January of 1455.

Structure

H.M. War Office is the central administration body for both the Royal Army and the Navy Royal, but does not itself command troops. The King's Marischal, a hereditary position held by the Margrave of Lasmere, has full theoretical command of the troops, subject to the King. In practice, the Lords and Staff Board and the War Office direct the national military policy, which is implemented by the Captain of the Forces who assumes direct command of the Army. General Head-Quarters (GHQ) of the Royal Army is based in Army House, in Lendert-with-Cadell.

To the Captain of the Forces report five officers, being the general command officers in charge of the four regional commands and the Adjutant-General, the senior-most staff officer in charge of the administration of the Army. These five officers hold the rank of captain-general or lieutenant-general. Subordinate to these are divisions, commanded by major-generals, and brigades, commanded by brigadier-generals.

The five major divisions of the forces are the infantry, the cavalry, the artillery, the engineers, and the services. Each has its own formation structure and to an extent, rank structure. Infantry, artillery and cavalry regiments and engineering battallions are all separate legal entities, as are each of the service corps, albeit established in accordance with the chain of command.

Most regiments (and battalions for engineers) are established on a regional basis, drawing in men and officers from amongst the subjects of a particular region. They are commanded by a colonel. There are presently 54 infantry regiments, 23 cavalry regiments, 15 artillery regiments and 14 engineer battalions. Most infantry and cavalry regiments have one regular army battalion, one national service battalion, and one militia (foot infantry), volunteer (rifles, artillery and engineers) or yeomanry (cavalry) battalion. There are talks to reduce the number of infantry regiments by around half, to 26, by amalgamating regiments; however, this has attracted criticism from both within and without the Army.

Feudal barons

Of the 234 barons who are obliged to render military service owing to their holding tenure per baroniam, a species of tenure per servitium militare, most render their obligations by raising militia or yeomanry battalions. Though the actual servitium debitum became obsolete in practice, it was revived by George I in the 16th century in altered form, better suited to the contemporaneous nature of warfare.

Units

Cavalry

Horse Guards

• 1st Horse Guards: The King's Own Life Guards
• 2nd Horse Guards: The Queen's Own Horse Guards
• 3rd Horse Guards: The King's Own Yeoman Guards
• 4th Horse Guards: The Queen's Own Mounted Guards
• 5th Horse Guards: The King's Marischal's Own Horse Guards

Dragoons

• 1st Dragoons: The King's Own Dragoon Guards
• 4th and 5th Dragoons: The Royal All Hambrian Dragoons
• 6th Dragoons: The Queen's Own Dragoons
• 7th Dragoons: The Royal Cardoby Dragoons
• 8th and 9th Dragoons: The Dun and Blue Dragoons
• 10th Dragoons: Prince Richard's Own Dragoons

Light Dragoons

• 1st Light Dragoons: Queen Catherine's Own Light Dragoons
• 2nd Light Dragoons: The Prince of Rhise's Own Lancers
• 3rd Light Dragoons: The Royal Light Dragoons
• 4th and 5th Light Dragoons: The King's Own Hussars
• 6th Light Dragoons: The Royal Hambrian Lancers
• 7th Light Dragoons: The Princess Royal's Own Hussars
• 8th Light Dragoons: The Lord Master of the Horse's Own Light Horse

Infantry

Foot Guards

• 1st Foot Guards: The King's Own Life Guards
• 2nd Foot Guards: The Hambrian Guards
• 3rd Foot Guards: The Queen's Own Life Guards
• 4th Foot Guards: The City Guard

Foot

• 1st Foot: The Royal Narland Regiment
• 2nd Foot: The Royal Enley Regiment
• 3rd Foot: The Royal Teyshire Regiment
• 4th Foot: The Prince Andrew's Own Southannering Regiment
• 5th Foot: The Royal Cranshire Regiment
• 6th Foot: The Royal Bentshire Regiment
• 7th Foot: The Duke of Faunslaughter's Regiment
• 8th Foot: The Royal Barard Regiment
• 9th Foot: The Norsax Regiment (Fusiliers)
• 10th Foot: The Great Walecester Regiment
• 11th Foot: The Duke of Towshire's Regiment
• 12th Foot: The North Larkshire (Anerburn Foresters) Regiment
• 13th Foot: Queen Catherine's Own Loyal Swent Regiment
• 14th Foot: The Gardolian Regiment
• 15th Foot: The Prince of Rhise's Own Regiment
• 16th Foot: The Monmorian Regiment
• 17th Foot: The Lasmere Marchers Regiment
• 18th Foot: The South Larkshire Plumwelders Regiment
• 19th Foot: The Harvickshire Regiment
• 20th Foot: The King's Own and Old Foresters' Regiment
• 21st Foot: The Margrave of Bine's Borderers Regiment
• 22nd Foot: The Prince of Leaton's Own Corrishire Regiment
• 23rd Foot: The Earl of Roseham's Regiment
• 24th Foot: The Duke of Fivewell's Regiment
• 25th Foot: The Northannering Regiment
• 26th Foot: The Royal Murish Fusiliers
• 27th Foot: The Eamshire Regiment
• 28th Foot: The Royal Eastannering Regiment
• 29th Foot: The Red of Gortland Regiment
• 30th Foot: The Oxleyshire Regiment
• 31st Foot: The Chesserton Regiment (South Heymeadshire)
• 32nd Foot: The Duke of Morney's Regiment
• 33rd Foot: The Duke of Barminster's Regiment
• 34th Foot: The Royal East Gortland Regiment
• 35th Foot: The Duke of Limmes's Regiment
• 36th Foot: The King's Own Rhighton Regiment
• 37th Foot: The Royal Poltland Regiment
• 38th Foot: The Prince of Gervis's Wertvale Regiment
• 39th Foot: The Royal Elpine Regiment
• 40th Foot: The Seffet Regiment
• 41st Foot: The Queen's Own Suthrepourdeland Regiment
• 42nd Foot: The Igoddal Regiment
• 43rd Foot: The Duke of Alvington's Regiment
• 44th Foot: The Herstlow Regiment
• 45th Foot: The Prince of Dunricia's Regiment
• 46th Foot: The North Barminstershire Regiment
• 47th Foot: The Duke of Essingford's Regiment
• 48th Foot: The Duke of Harringow's Regiment
• 49th Foot: The Yeartey Regiment
• 50th Foot: The North Essingford and Plumey Regiment

Artillery

• 1st Horse Artillery Regiment: The King's Own Horse Artillery
• 2nd Horse Artillery Regiment: The Royal King's Rhighton Artillery
• 3rd Horse Artillery Regiment: The Royal Castle Artillery

• 2nd Artillery Regiment
• 3rd Artillery Regiment
• 4th Artillery Regiment
• 5th Artillery Regiment
• 6th Artillery Regiment
• 7th Artillery Regiment
• 8th Artillery Regiment
• 9th Artillery Regiment
• 10th Artillery Regiment
• 11th Artillery Regiment
• 12th Artillery Regiment

Engineers

• 1st Engineer Battalion: The Royal Artificers
• 2nd Engineer Battalion: The Royal Mural Engineers Battalion
• 3rd Engineer Battalion: Duremenshire Coast Engineers
• 4th Engineer Battalion: The Royal Hambrian Artificers
• 5th Engineer Battalion: The King's Electrical Engineers Battalion
• 6th Engineer Battalion: The First Royal Signals Battalion
• 7th Engineer Battalion: The Queen's Signallers
• 8th Engineer Battalion: The Hambrian Signallers
• 9th Engineer Battalion: The Aceshire Engineers
• 10th Engineer Battalion: The Royal Cardish Engineers
• 11th Engineer Battalion: The Swent and Teyshire Engineers
• 12th Engineer Battalion: The Walecester and Barminstershire Engineers
• 13th Engineer Battalion: The Prince of Morney's Transport Engineers
• 14th Engineer Battalion: The Royal Almedian Engineers

Home Service

Main article: Home Service (Great Nortend)

The milita and yeomanry are collectively known as the His Majesty's Voluntary Home Service or more often, simply the Home Service. They are nowadays established under the Defence of the Realm Act 50 Edm. IX 34 and are tasked with defence from the enemy, as well as civil defence from natural disasters and other emergencies. Nearly a million men are home servicemen who are not liable to serve abroad without consent, providing a valuable community presence. The bulk of the Home Service is drawn from the middling classes such as yeoman farmers, skilled tradesmen, shopkeepers, clerks, professionals and managers. In the country, many farm labourers are also home servicemen. Retired or former regular servicemen are also eligible to join, provided that minimum physical standards are met.

The Home Service is organised on a battalion basis, each raised by the Lord Lieutenant of the county or borough although every battalion is attached to a regular army regiment, adopting their cap badge and emblems. For example, the 4th, 5th and 6th Bns of the 18th Rgt of Foot, The South Larkshire (Plumwelders) Rgt, are the three militia battalions of that regiment.

Muster and Service

Muster and service is the name given to the form of military conscription in force in Great Nortend. It derives from the words of the Defence of the Realm Act 44 Edm. IX p. 46 which compels certain able men to be 'mustered' and 'serve' in His Majesty's Army. Male Erbonian full subjects from their seventeenth birthday are liable to be draughted to muster. Approximately 80% of the of age male population are mandatorily conscripted. Muster and service may be deferred until a man's 25th birthday, whereafter he may be liable to prosecution.

Service is in one of the mustered battalions of a local regiment. An average regiment takes in around 2,600 or so mustermen annually, spread between three to five battalions. For example, the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th Bns of the 18th Rgt of Foot are the mustered battalions of that regiment.

Mustermen undergo three months of initial military training, followed by nine months of active service posted somewhere in Great Nortend or abroad. Thereafter, they may choose to join in the Home Service or else leave by paying a fine. Those who join the Home Service are then allocated to one of the Home Service battalions of their local regiment, or another upon request.

Mustermen are paid an annual salary of £322 for their year of compulsory service. They are also entitled to uniform and travelling allowances.

Exemptions

Exemptions from liability to muster are provided by the Act and include those men who are:

• Clergymen of the Church of Nortend (including university students and graduates)
• Members of certain guilds and compagnies
• Deaf, blind, mute or dumb.
• Physically unfit (such as requiring glasses).
• Convicted felons or outlaws.
• Heirs to certain titles of nobility.
• Holders of certain Crown offices.
• Unable by operation of law to take oaths.
• Otherwise exempt having applied for and received special exemption.

Ranks

Other ranks

Insignia	(No insignia)
Rank	Private	Lance Corporal	Corporal	Serjeant	Staff Serjeant	Colour Serjeant	Warranted Officer
Abbreviation	Pt.	L/Cpl	Cpl	Sjt	S/Sjt	C/Sjt	W/O

A company has two colour serjeants who are appointed as company serjeant major and company quartermaster serjeant. Staff serjeant is the equivalent for regiments and corps who do not have colours, such as administrative corps.

A battalion has two warranted officers are appointed as regimental serjeant major and regimental quartermaster serjeants. Only the RSM is entitled to wear the crown surmounting four chevrons.

Officers

Insignia
Rank	Ensign Cornet	Lieutenant	Captain	Major	Commandant	Colonel	Brigadier	Major-General	Lieutenant-General	Captain-General	King's Marischal
Abbreviation	Ens Cnt	Lt	Cpt	Maj.	Cmdt	Col	Brig.	Maj. Gen.	Lt. Gen.	Cpt Gen.	None

Equipment

Name	Photo	Comment
Rifled Guns
Devenson G.U. Mk V		Standard issue rifled assault gun since 1987 for troops.
Devenson G.U. Mk IV (Self-Loading-Rifle)		Semi-automatic self-loading rifled gun which replaced the older bolt-action Mark III during the 1950s. Still used in the service corps and militia.
Pistol
Browning–Royal Armoury Pistol (SLR)		Standard service pistol since the 1960s, though officers are required to purchase their pistols and are not required to use the SLR.

Dress

Main article: Uniforms of the Royal Army (Great Nortend)