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The term auxiliaries comes from the Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 auxilia (help).

It is generally used to describe people employed in an organisation, often pre-existing as a reserve force, acting in support of a main military force.

The phrase auxiliary force(s) may also be used.

The term auxiliaries or auxiliary forces may refer to organizations where the word auxiliary does not necessarily form part of the formal title.

The term auxiliaries has other discrete uses in specific contexts.

Auxiliaries may also be locally recruited people who serve as an adjunct to regular military forces, especially in the form of colonial troops
Colonial troops

File:Affiche-troupes-coloniales-IMG 0929.jpgColonial troops or colonial army refers to various military units recruited from, or used as garrison troops in, colonial territories....
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The term auxiliaries comes from the Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 auxilia (help).

It is generally used to describe people employed in an organisation, often pre-existing as a reserve force, acting in support of a main military force.

The phrase auxiliary force(s) may also be used.

The term auxiliaries or auxiliary forces may refer to organizations where the word auxiliary does not necessarily form part of the formal title.

The term auxiliaries has other discrete uses in specific contexts.

Auxiliaries may also be locally recruited people who serve as an adjunct to regular military forces, especially in the form of colonial troops
Colonial troops

File:Affiche-troupes-coloniales-IMG 0929.jpgColonial troops or colonial army refers to various military units recruited from, or used as garrison troops in, colonial territories....
.

Organizations


Contemporary Usage

  • United Kingdom:
    • The Merchant Navy
    • Royal Auxiliary Air Force
      Royal Auxiliary Air Force

      The Royal Auxiliary Air Force is the volunteer active duty reserve element of the Royal Air Force, providing a primary reinforcement capability for the regular service....
    • Royal Fleet Auxiliary
      Royal Fleet Auxiliary

      The Royal Fleet Auxiliary is a component of the Naval Service that keeps the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom running around the world. Its main function is to supply the Royal Navy with fuel and supplies....
    • Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service
      Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service

      The Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service was a United Kingdom British Government agency which ran a variety of civilian manned support vessels for the Royal Navy....
    • The Auxiliary police
      Auxiliary police

      Auxiliary police are usually the part-time reserves of a regular police force. They may be armed or unarmed. They may be unpaid volunteers or paid members of the police service with which they are affiliated....
  • United States:
    • Air Force:
      • Civil Air Patrol
        Civil Air Patrol

        The Civil Air Patrol is a United States Congress chartered, federally supported, Non-profit organization corporation that serves as the official Auxiliaries of the United States Air Force ....
    • Navy:
      • Merchant Marine
        United States Merchant Marine

        The United States Merchant Marine refers to the fleet of United States of America civilian-owned merchant ships, operated by either the government or the private sector, that are engaged in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United States....
         and Maritime Service
        United States Maritime Service

        The United States Maritime Service was established in 1938 under the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. The mission of the organization was to train officers and other men to become United States Merchant Marine....
    • Coast Guard:
      • Coast Guard Auxiliary
        United States Coast Guard Auxiliary

        The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary was established on June 23, 1939 by an act of Congress as the United States Coast Guard Reserve and re-designated as the Auxiliary on February 19, 1941....
    • Inter-service:
      • Military Affiliate Radio System
        Military Affiliate Radio System

        The Military Affiliate Radio System is a United States Department of Defense sponsored program, established as a separately managed and operated program by the United States Army, United States Navy, and United States Air Force....


Historical Usage

  • Auxiliary Division
    Auxiliary Division

    The Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary , generally known as the Auxiliaries or Auxies, was a paramilitary organization within the RIC during the Irish War of Independence....
    , British paramilitary
    Paramilitary

    A paramilitary is a force whose function and organisation are similar to those of a professional military force, but which is not regarded as having the same status....
     police force raised during the Irish War of Independence
    Irish War of Independence

    The Irish War of Independence from January 1919 to July 1921 was a guerrilla warfare mounted against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Ireland by the Irish Republican Army ....
     1919–21
  • Colonial Auxiliary Forces
  • Hilfspolizei, or Schutzmannschaft
    Schutzmannschaft

    File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-B10160, Wilna, Juden, litauischer Polizist.jpgSchutzmannschaft or Hilfspolizei were the collaborationist auxiliary police battalions of Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Belarusian, or Ukrainian policemen, which was create to fight the resistance during World War II mostly in the Eastern European countries oc...
    , Nazi German paramilitary
    Paramilitary

    A paramilitary is a force whose function and organisation are similar to those of a professional military force, but which is not regarded as having the same status....
     police force raised during the World War II
    World War II

    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
     1939–45
  • Roman auxiliaries
    Auxiliaries (Roman military)

    Auxiliaries formed the standing non-citizen corps of the Roman army of the Principate , alongside the citizen Roman legion. By the 2nd century, the auxilia contained the same number of infantry as the legions and in addition provided almost all the Roman army's Roman cavalry and more specialised troops ....
    , non-citizen troops supporting the Roman legion
    Roman legion

    The Roman Legion is a term that can apply both as a translation of legio to the entire Roman army and also, more narrowly , to the heavy infantry that was the basic military unit of the Roman army in the period of the late Roman Republic and the Roman Empire....
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Linguistics

  • Auxiliaries can also be used to refer to auxiliary verb
    Auxiliary verb

    In linguistics, an auxiliary is a verb functioning to give further semantics or syntax information about the main or full verb following it....
    s in linguistic
    Linguistics

    Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
     contexts.


See also

  • Chiral auxiliaries
    Chiral auxiliary

    A chiral auxiliary is a chemical compound or unit that is temporarily incorporated into an organic synthesis so that it can be carried out asymmetrically with the selective formation of one of two enantiomers...
     are chemical compound
    Chemical compound

    A chemical compound is a Chemical substance consisting of two or more different chemical element Chemical bond together in a fixed mass ratio that can be split into simpler substances....
    s used in chiral synthesis
    Chiral synthesis

    Asymmetric synthesis, also called chiral synthesis, enantioselective synthesis or stereoselective synthesis, is organic synthesis which introduces one or more new and desired elements of chirality....