Berkshire Trained Bands

• Berkshire Trained Band
• Sir Richard Neville's Reading Auxiliary Regiment of Foot
• Berkshire Trained Band Horse

The Berkshire Trained Bands of 1638 consisted of 1100 men armed with 680 muskets and 420 corslets (body armour, signifying pikemen). They also mustered 90 horse consisting of 59 cuirassiers and 31 harquebusiers.

In April 1644 the Royalist Sir Richard Neville raised an Auxiliary regiment to garrison Reading

In August 1651 the Berkshire militia were ordered to rendezvous at Oxford.