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    The 1st Orkney Artillery Volunteers (OAV) was a part-time unit of Britain's Royal Artillery formed in the Orkney Islands in 1860 as a response to a French...
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  • Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery 1st Hampshire Artillery Volunteers 1st Inverness Artillery Volunteers 1st Kent Artillery Volunteers 1st Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteers...
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    together with the AVCs from Orkney and Ross-shire, were formed into the 1st Administrative Brigade, Caithness Artillery Volunteers, with its headquarters (HQ)...
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  • The 1st Durham Volunteer Artillery was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force and Territorial Army from 1860 to 1956. During World War I, it was the only...
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    the Volunteer movement in 1859 led to the creation of the 1st Orkney Artillery Volunteers) as a permanent part of the auxiliary forces of the Crown,...
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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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    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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    Aberdeenshire Artillery Volunteers at Aberdeen 1st Berwickshire Artillery Volunteers at Eyemouth 1st Inverness Artillery Volunteers at Inverness 1st Orkney Artillery...
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  • The 1st Kent Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery from 1860 to 1956. Primarily serving as coastal artillery defending...
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  • Highland Volunteers in March 1969. The unit was re-organised as two separate platoons in two different companies of 51st Highland Volunteers in 1981 and...
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    The 1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers (1st LAV), popularly known as 'Brown's Corps', was an auxiliary unit of the British Army raised in Liverpool in...
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    War Office proposed to convert the Lerwick-based Orkney & Shetland Rifle Volunteers into artillery, but this was never carried through. In 1926 it was...
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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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  • The Cheshire Artillery Volunteers was a brigade of Volunteer artillery units raised in the county of Cheshire in the mid-19th century. Their successors...
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  • The 1st Forfarshire Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery founded in Forfarshire (now Angus) in Scotland in...
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    The 1st Suffolk & Harwich Volunteer Artillery, later the Essex & Suffolk Royal Garrison Artillery was an auxiliary coastal artillery unit of the British...
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    The 2nd Devonshire Artillery Volunteers was a unit of the British Volunteer Force and Territorial Army. The unit and its successors defended Plymouth Dockyard...
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    Volunteers at Carlisle 1st Orkney Artillery Volunteers at Kirkwall 1st Shropshire & Staffordshire Artillery Volunteers at Stoke-on-Trent 1st Worcestershire (Worcester...
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    Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers). In 1938, it was renamed the South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) and on 1 July 1958 the regiment...
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  • Scottish artillery regiment. 19 Regiment RA is the local artillery regiment of the Highlands of Scotland, the Western Isles, Shetland and Orkney. The Regiment...
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    January 1945 533rd (Orkney) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) – converted from part of Orkney Heavy Regiment September 1940 534th (Orkney) Coast Regiment...
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  • making up an unofficial Manchester Brigade at the Volunteer reviews. The 1st Manchester Rifle Volunteers opened its headquarters (HQ) in Hopwood Avenue and...
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    The 4th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, later renamed to the 4th West Lancashire Brigade, known as 'The Old 4th', was a part-time unit of the British...
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    offered to send volunteers to reinforce the 1st Battalion South Lancashires fighting in the 2nd Boer War. Between them the two Volunteer battalions raised...
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    companies of the 1st Renfrew and Dumbarton RGA (Volunteers), part of the 1st Argyll and Bute RGA (Volunteers), and personnel from the 1st Edinburgh City...
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  • Street Barracks in Aberdeen 1st Volunteer Battalion (Volunteers, former 1st Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, became 1st VB in 1884), later became 4th...
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  • Battalion Lancashire Rifle Volunteers when it was formed in May 1860 (dates are of first commissions issued): 5th (Liverpool Volunteer Rifle Brigade) Lancashire...
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    The 2nd Glamorganshire Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army that defended the coast of South Wales from 1890 to 1942. Although...
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  • Volunteer Corps were attached to their local regiments. In 1883 the 8th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers (raised at Bury on 22 August 1859) became the 1st...
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  • Ross-shire, Sutherland, Orkney, Inverness-shire, Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, and Shetland. 1st Btn Regular, 2nd Btn, 51st Highland Volunteers re-designated as...
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