1818 33 83 I mean the Militia Service and other compulsory military and naval service.
1824 W. J. Burchell II. 111 The master himself was at this time absent on the Commando, or militia-service, against the Caffres in the Zuureveld.
1987 M. S. Anderson (ed. 3) 219 In France the more well-to-do cultivators (those who paid 50 livres or more in taille) were exempt from militia service.