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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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    103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery is part of the Army Reserve and primarily has sub-units throughout the Greater Manchester...
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    The 8th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers was a unit of the British Volunteer Force raised in Liverpool, Lancashire, in 1860. Later it transferred to the...
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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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  • Artillery Volunteers 1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers 1st Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers 1st (Hanover Square) Middlesex Artillery Volunteer Corps 1st Midlothian...
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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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  • Garrison Artillery, and when the Territorial Force was created in 1908 they formed a Royal Field Artillery howitzer brigade for the East Lancashire Division...
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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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    formerly Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery (6 btys) 1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers at Liverpool 2nd Lancashire Artillery Volunteers at Liverpool 3rd...
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    was amalgamated with the East Lancashire Regiment to form the Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers). The 1st Battalion was in Ranikhet, India...
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  • Thumbnail for 1st Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers
    The 1st Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers were formed in 1860 as a response to a French invasion threat. They fought on the Western Front during World...
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  • The Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery was a part-time reserve unit of Britain's Royal Artillery based in Lancashire from 1853 to 1909. The long-standing...
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    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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    later 1st Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry The Brothers – King's Own Scottish Borderers Brown's Corps – 1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, raised...
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    1867. The 1st (Manchester) Lancashire Light Horse Volunteers (formed on 22 March 1860 as the 1st Lancashire (Manchester) Mounted Rifle Volunteers) was also...
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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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  • The 1st Banffshire Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery founded in Banffshire in Scotland in 1859. Through various...
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  • 2020. "The Lancashire Rifle Volunteers". Retrieved 20 July 2020. "5th Battalion, The South Lancashire Regiment and South Lancashire Artillery, RA". Archived...
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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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    The 1st Glamorganshire Artillery Volunteers was formed in 1859 in response to a French invasion threat. Raised as a coast artillery unit, it later became...
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    The 1st Staffordshire Artillery Volunteers, later 2nd North Midland Brigade, was a Volunteer unit of the Royal Artillery of the British Army recruiting...
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    and the 1st/2nd East Lancs Brigade RFA (Manchester Artillery) arrived in Egypt in May from Britain and remained in Egypt. The 125th (Lancashire Fusiliers)...
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    9th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers was raised in 1889 from Bolton personnel serving with the Blackburn-based 3rd Lancashire Artillery Volunteers. (In...
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  • Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery Artillery Volunteers: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Lancashire; 1st Cheshire and Carnarvonshire; 1st Shropshire...
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    and decimal currency. In 1856 he raised and equipped the 1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, in which he served as lieutenant-colonel. In 1860 he opened...
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  • cadre (absorbed into 208 (3rd West Lancashire) Battery of 103 (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery in 1973) and the Yeomanry lineage...
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    Battery Headquarters (King's) Battery, 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery – formed as HQ Battery, subtitle '(King's)' added...
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  • The 1st Worcestershire Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of Britain's Royal Artillery dating back to 1865. As part of the Territorial Force it...
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    Artillery Volunteers at Dundee 1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers at Liverpool 2nd Lancashire Artillery Volunteers at Liverpool 3rd Lancashire Artillery Volunteers...
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  • The 1st Lancashire Engineer Volunteer Corps was a Volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers, first raised in 1860. It went on to spin off a unit of...
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