The Bolton Artillery, under various titles, has been a Volunteer unit of the British Army based in Bolton, Lancashire, since 1889. In the First World...
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Bolton Wanderers Football Club (/ˈboʊltən/ BOHL-tən) is a professional association football club based in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. The team...
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Metropolitan Borough of Bolton (/ˈboʊltən/ BOHL-tən) is a metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, named after its largest town, Bolton, but covering...
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53rd (Bolton) Field Regiment was a Royal Artillery (RA) unit of Britain's part-time Territorial Army (TA) during World War II. It was descended from the...
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Zealand troops manning guardposts. The 20th Battery (Bolton Artillery) fired the division's first artillery rounds of the Great War, and the first of the Territorial...
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missile air-defense weapon. Then, in 1986, 216 (The Bolton Artillery) Battery was formed at Bolton and joined the regiment. In 1992, as a result of the...
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111th (Bolton) Field Regiment was a Royal Artillery (RA) unit of Britain's part-time Territorial Army (TA) formed just before World War II. It was descended...
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15 Bolton professionals, led by their captain Harry Goslin, volunteered for active service in 1939 and were enlisted in the 53rd Bolton Artillery regiment...
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Regiment (The Bolton Artillery). Since the reduction of the TA in 1967, the Bolton Artillery has existed as a battery of 103 (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers)...
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did not arrive until September 1/III East Lancashire Brigade (The Bolton Artillery), RFA (1/18th, 1/19th, 1/20th East Lancashire Btys) – 1/19th & 1/20th...
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103 (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery – Equipped with L118 light gun. Has batteries in St Helens, Bolton, Liverpool, Manchester...
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renumbered CCXII (exchanging numbers with the former 1/III East Lancs (Bolton Artillery)) and was reorganised, with C Bty being split between A and B to bring...
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Francis John Bolton (1831–1887) was a British Army officer, known also as a telegraphic and electrical engineer. The son of Dr. Thomas Wilson Bolton, surgeon...
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7th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers (redirect from 39th (The Lancashire Fusiliers) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery)
Regiment (The Bolton Artillery). Since the reduction of the TA in 1967, the Bolton Artillery has existed as a battery of 103 (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers)...
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Regiment of Artillery is an Arm of the British Army. The Regiment is made up of two distinct arms; the Royal Horse Artillery and the Royal Artillery. Somewhat...
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Artillery Association is an association of serving and former soldiers (officers and other ranks) of the British Army's Royal Regiment of Artillery (or...
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Barracks, Saint Helens Lancashire Artillery Volunteers Band, at Nelson Street Army Reserve Centre, Bolton Lancashire Artillery Pipes and Drums 208 (3rd West...
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and Saint Helens Artillery) Battery, Manchester/St Helens 216 (The Bolton Artillery) Battery, Bolton 104 Regiment, Royal Artillery - MUAS Regimental...
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Joseph Nall (category Royal Artillery officers)
Company, carriers and railway cartage agents. In 1906 he joined the Bolton Artillery, a unit of the Volunteer Force. He continued his connection with the...
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5th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment (redirect from 436th (South Lancashire Artillery) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery)
In 1961 the regiment absorbed Q Bty from 253 Field Regiment (The Bolton Artillery), which became Q/436 Bty, and in 1964 the regiment was redesignated...
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Illinois Light Artillery, Co. E Letters of James Bolton Rice to his wife, Vol 1: 1860-62 Letter of December 8, 1862. Letters of James Bolton Rice to his...
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received official local subtitles – 'Manchester Artillery', 'Bolton Artillery', 'Cumberland Artillery' – the Blackburn-based unit did not, although it...
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into mounted brigades of three regiments each. Royal Horse Artillery units formed artillery support to the mounted brigades. Most of the batteries were...
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with 252nd (The Manchester Artillery) Field Rgt and 253rd (The Bolton Artillery) Field Rgt to form 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Rgt, RA, in which...
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Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry (redirect from Bolton Light Horse Volunteers)
Bolton le Moors Cavalry (also known as Bolton Volunteer Cavalry), one troop reformed 3 August 1802; disbanded 1813, reformed 6 January 1820 as Bolton...
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aircraftman in the RAF. Harry Goslin – played for Bolton Wanderers (1930–1939). Served with the Bolton Artillery, rising to Lieutenant and being awarded MC....
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Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) 53rd (Bolton) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) 55th (Wessex) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) 57th (Home Counties)...
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Cecil Hamilton Bolton (October 7, 1908 – January 22, 1965) was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the...
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Robert Wilson (British Army officer, born 1911) (redirect from Robert Wilson (Royal Artillery officer))
the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 2 September 1939. He served in the Battle of France with the 3rd Survey Regiment, Royal Artillery before being evacuated...
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Tommy Sinclair (Scottish footballer) (category Bolton Wanderers F.C. players)
Football League for Bolton Wanderers as an inside right. Sinclair served as a sergeant in 53rd (Bolton) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, during the Second...
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