of the Napoleonic War: Middlesex was 20th. The militia order of precedence for the Napoleonic War remained in force until 1833. In that year the King drew the lots for individual regiments and the resulting list remained in force with minor amendments until the end of the militia. The regiments raised before the peace of 1763 took the first 47 places but the three Middlesex regiments raised in 1760 were included in the second group (1763–83), presumably because they were not actually embodied until 1778. The Royal East Middlesex Militia became 65th. Most regiments paid little attention to the numbering, but when new regiments were raised in 1855 some of them were given numbers that had become vacant: the 5th Middlesex received 28th (replacing the Pembroke Militia, which had been converted to Militia Artillery). It therefore outranked the Royal East Middlesex, leading to their relative precedence as 3rd and 4th (later 5th and 6th) battalions of the Middlesex Regiment. Colonels The following served as Colonel of the Regiment or as its Honorary Colonel: Colonels John Bond, 1697 Gilbert Medlycott, 1722 David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield, appointed 31 July 1798; transferred to the Royal Perth Militia 3 May 1803 Thomas Wood, appointed 12 April 1803, died 1860 Honorary Colonels Thomas St Leger Alcock, former CO, appointed 21 July 1871 Lt-Gen Henry Kent, appointed 14 June 1890, reappointed to SR 14 June 1908 Battle honour Like many militia units the Royal East Middlesex sent volunteers as reinforcements to the Regular Army in the Peninsular War, but its only overseas deployment as a formed unit was to the Second Boer War, for which it was awarded the Battle honour South Africa 1900–02. Regimental museum The museum of the Middlesex Regiment and of its militia units was located at Bruce Castle in Tottenham; it was closed in 1992 and its artefacts and holdings were then passed to the National Army Museum in Chelsea. See also Middlesex Militia Royal West Middlesex Militia Royal Westminster Militia Royal South Middlesex Militia Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Militia Middlesex Regiment Militia (Great Britain) Militia (United Kingdom) Special Reserve Footnotes Notes References L.S. Amery (ed), The Times History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902, London: Sampson Low, Marston, 6 Vols 1900–09. E. Brumby, 'Plan of the Encampment on Waterdown Forest near Tunbridge Wells', Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol 80, No 323 (Autumn 2002),