The 1st Dorsetshire Artillery Volunteers and its successors were part-time coast defence units of the British Army from 1859 to 1956. Although these units...
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Artillery 1st Devonshire Artillery Volunteers 1st Dorsetshire Artillery Volunteers 1st Durham Volunteer Artillery 1st East Riding Artillery Volunteers Edinburgh...
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The 1st Devonshire Artillery Volunteers and its successor units served in the British Army's Reserve Forces from 1859 to 1961. During World War I it carried...
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Dorset Regiment (redirect from Dorsetshire Rifle Volunteers)
1st Administrative Battalion, Dorsetshire Rifle Volunteers formed at Dorchester. Its first formation consisted of the following: The first volunteer corps...
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The 1st Hampshire Artillery Volunteers and its successors were part-time coast defence units of the British Army from 1860 to 1967. Although the units...
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Kincardine Artillery 6th Brigade – formerly Argyll and Bute Artillery Militia Artillery Volunteers: 1st Edinburgh; 1st Midlothian; 1st Banffshire; 1st Forfarshire;...
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Lancashire Artillery Volunteers at Bolton 1st Renfrew and Dumbarton Artillery Volunteers at Greenock 1st Dorsetshire Artillery Volunteers at Weymouth...
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The 1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall's) Artillery Volunteers were formed in 1860 as a response to a French invasion threat. They served as a Coast Artillery...
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Bristol) HAA Rgt. The 1st Dorsetshire Bty at Bridport was provided by No 4 Company of the 1st Dorsetshire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers), while 6th Hampshire...
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Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry (redirect from Dorsetshire Yeomanry)
yeomanry regiment of the British Army founded in 1794 as the Dorsetshire Regiment of Volunteer Yeomanry Cavalry in response to the growing threat of invasion...
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33rd (1st Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot - 1 Battalion 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1805-1817 35th (Dorsetshire) Regiment...
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Regiment 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot 80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot Dorsetshire Regiment 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of...
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5th (Prince of Wales's) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment (redirect from 1st Devonshire Light Horse Volunteers)
(Modbury) Devonshire Mounted Rifle Volunteers (MRV), raised on 20 April 1860; redesignated 3rd Devonshire Light Horse Volunteers 1865; disbanded February 1875...
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Horse Artillery. They marched along the coast and engaged the enemy at the Battle of Agagia on 26 February 1916. With the aid of the Dorsetshire Yeomanry's...
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Duke of Wellington's Regiment (redirect from 58th (Duke of Wellington's Regiment) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery)
Yorkshire Volunteers. The 1st Battalion was deployed to Korea in 1952, two years after the Korean War had broken out. They were part of the 1st Commonwealth...
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List of Provisional Battalions of the Territorial Force (redirect from 1st (Scottish) Provisional Battalion (Territorial Force))
Military Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-84342-197-9. Maj H.O. Lock, History of the Dorsetshire Regiment, 1914–1919, Part II: The Territorial Units, Dorchester: Henry...
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1889 1st Volunteer Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers – from 1st Denbighshire Volunteers' 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers – from 1st Flintshire...
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Dorsetshire Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) – reorganised as 522nd (Dorsetshire) Coast Regiment July 1940 Durham Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery...
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The Dorset Rifle Volunteers, (also known as the Dorsetshire Volunteer Rifle Battalion), was a unit of the Volunteer Force of the British Army located in...
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Battalion The Rifles (formed from the 1st Battalion, Light Infantry) 6th Battalion The Rifles (formed from the Rifle Volunteers) 7th Battalion The Rifles (formed...
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The Dorsetshire & Wiltshire Fortress Royal Engineers was a part-time unit of Britain's Royal Engineers formed in 1908. It helped to defend the naval base...
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Dorset Militia, and on 28 November, 1900, of the 1st Dorsetshire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers). Lord Digby married Emily Beryl Sissy Hood, daughter...
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Hampshire Yeomanry (redirect from 378th (Hampshire Royal Horse Artillery) Field Battery, Royal Artillery)
Battery at Southampton 310th AA Battery, formed 1 April 1939 at Parkstone, Dorsetshire (The two former Wessex batteries transferred to 57th (Wessex) AA Brigade...
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the 2nd Kent Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) split to form two brigades in the Royal Field Artillery: the headquarters and four companies at Lewisham...
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Somerset Light Infantry (redirect from 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot)
Militia) 1st Volunteer Battalion (formerly 1st Somersetshire Rifle Volunteer Corps) 2nd Volunteer Battalion (formerly 2nd Somersetshire Rifle Volunteer Corps)...
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Yorkshire Volunteers re-titled as 3rd (Yorkshire Volunteers) Btn, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment): 1st Btn, Yorkshire...
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previous volunteer artillery units in the Orkney Islands: the Kirkwall Gunners during the Napoleonic Wars, and the 1st Orkney Artillery Volunteers (OAV)...
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to practise law. He joined the army volunteer force as an officer in the 1st volunteer battalion in the Dorsetshire Regiment, and was promoted to captain...
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Volunteer Force artillery corps was the 1st Northumberland Artillery Volunteer Corps formed on 2 August, 1859. The Exeter and South Devon Volunteers numbered...
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Count Gleichen 1st The Norfolk Regiment 1st The Bedfordshire Regiment 1st The Cheshire Regiment 1st The Dorsetshire Regiment Artillery - Brigadier-General...
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