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2 unusual facts about Auxiliary Units


Auxiliary Units

Calvert had recently served in the 5th Battalion, Scots Guards, which had been formed to fight as a ski-troop in Finland.

Fleming came from a famous banking family and was the elder brother of Ian Fleming.


Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley

During the Second World War Major Lord Ashley served as a British Intelligence Officer with the Auxiliary Units, which were highly covert Resistance groups trained to engage and counteract the expected invasion of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany.


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Cohors I Aelia Dacorum

According to Holder, the regiment was transferred to Britain immediately after it was recruited, in accordance with a general imperial policy of deploying auxiliary units from recently conquered (or pacified) regions to other parts of the Empire in order to assure their loyalty (e.g. 7 British regiments, raised during the Flavian period (71-96), are attested as deployed in Dacia in the reign of Hadrian).

Frontinus

He subdued the Silures and other tribes of Wales hostile to Roman invasion, establishing a new base at Caerleon or Isca Augusta for Legio II Augusta and a network of smaller forts fifteen to twenty kilometres apart for his auxiliary units.