The 3rd West Lancashire Artillery (3rd West Lancs Artillery) was a volunteer unit of Britain's Territorial Force recruited from Liverpool that saw action...
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West Lancashire Artillery 3rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment 3rd Field Artillery Regiment (United States) 3rd Continental Artillery Regiment 3rd Massachusetts...
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The 3rd Lancashire Artillery Volunteers was a unit of Britain's part-time Volunteer Force recruited from Blackburn and the surrounding area in 1860. It...
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left for overseas service December 1915 Artillery 1st West Lancashire Divisional Artillery Royal Field Artillery (RFA) (four brigades) – joined April 1915;...
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(Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Light Air Defence Regiment Royal Artillery (Volunteers). Its units were Headquarters Battery at Liverpool, 208 (3rd West...
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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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Lancashire Militia (Rifles), raised in 1855 and recruited from Bury, Manchester and Salford. This formed the 3rd and 4th Battalions of the Lancashire...
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(3rd Durham Volunteer Artillery) Battery – formed following Army 2020 Refine at Marne Barracks, Catterick Garrison Isle of Man Troop, 208 (3rd West Lancashire...
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Lancs Brigade RFA (Manchester Artillery) arrived in Egypt in May from Britain and remained in Egypt. The 125th (Lancashire Fusiliers) Brigade landed in...
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(RFC). Tipton's received his first commission was with the 3rd West Lancashire Artillery. Then in May 1915, he transferred to the RFC gaining his wings...
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the 7th Lancashire (The Manchester Artillery) Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers). 'Position artillery' was redesignated 'heavy artillery' in May 1902...
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Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) – S/A January 1945 70th (3rd West Lancashire) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) – converted to battery...
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transferred to the Royal Artillery before the war and converted into the 61st (South Lancashire) Searchlight Regiment. It served in North West England, in Orkney...
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their own right and 3rd-Line battalions were created to train reserves. During the winter of 1914-15 the battalions of the West Lancashire Division began to...
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The 9th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers was raised in 1889 from Bolton personnel serving with the Blackburn-based 3rd Lancashire Artillery Volunteers...
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amalgamation of the 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot, 81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers), 3rd Royal Lancashire Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's...
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Troops' in 55th (West Lancashire) Divisional Area. In 1938 it was retitled as the 106th (Lancashire Yeomanry) Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery. At the start...
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Preston Rifles (redirect from 11th (1st Preston) Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps)
Preston) Lancashire RVC, formed at Preston, Lancashire, on 4 October 1859 under the command of Henry Newsham Pedder, late of the 3rd Royal Lancashire Militia...
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The 7th Royal Lancashire Militia (Rifles) (7th RLM) was an auxiliary regiment raised in the county of Lancashire in North West England just before the...
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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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Honourable Artillery Company (1944–1945) Royal Norfolk Regiment (1944-45)[citation needed] East Lancashire Regiment (1944–1945) South Lancashire Regiment...
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The Lancashire Militia was an auxiliary military force in Lancashire in North West England. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in 1558 and...
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207 (East Lancashire) Batteries 208 (East Lancashire) Battery (Howitzer) The brigade was once again part of 42nd (EL) Divisional Artillery. In 1924 the...
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Royal Lancashire Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's Own Light Infantry) was an auxiliary regiment raised in the county of Lancashire in North West England...
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Brigade – formerly Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery Artillery Volunteers: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Lancashire; 1st Cheshire and Carnarvonshire;...
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Brigade (The Cumberland Artillery), RFA (1/1st, 1/2nd Cumberland (H) Btys) 1/1st & 1/2nd East Lancashire, 1/2nd West Lancashire Field Companies, RE 52nd...
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changing its title, but on 1 March 1886 it transferred to the Lancashire Fusiliers as its 3rd Volunteer Battalion. In December 1899 the Cross Lane drill...
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Woolton 70th (3rd West Lancashire) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, Liverpool 81st Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, Stockport...
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The 55th (West Lancashire) Division was an infantry division of the British Army's Territorial Force (TF) that saw extensive combat during the First World...
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heavy artillery to higher formations within the British Army. The First World War had been the first artillery war, in which the British Royal Artillery (RA)...
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