The 2nd (Seaham) Durham Artillery Volunteer Corps was a part-time unit of Britain's Royal Artillery raised in County Durham by the Vane-Tempest family...
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Durham AVC (Sunderland) 2nd (Seaham) Durham Artillery Volunteer Corps (Seaham) 3rd Durham AVC (South Shields) 4th Durham AVC (Hartlepool) Some of the...
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the unit passed to Lt-Col Edwin Vaux. The 2nd (Seaham) Corps was initially the largest of the four Durham AVCs, and the other three were attached to...
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independent in 1886. The 3rd Durham AVC absorbed the 6th Durham Rifle Volunteers at South Shields in 1863. After leaving the 2nd (Seaham) AVC in 1873 the 3rd...
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officers (NCO)s and men of the 2nd (Seaham) Durham Artillery Volunteer Corps, a part-time unit of the Royal Artillery who were recruited from workers...
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Artillery Volunteers 2nd (Seaham) Durham Artillery Volunteer Corps 2nd East Riding Artillery Volunteers 2nd Glamorganshire Artillery Volunteers 2nd Kent...
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Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry (category Deputy Lieutenants of Durham)
the 2nd (Seaham) Durham Artillery Volunteer Corps a part-time unit commanded by his father and recruited mainly from the family's Seaham Colliery. (On the...
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Rifle and Artillery volunteers at Tynemouth, formal enrolment for the 1st Northumberland Artillery Volunteers opened on 2 August, and the corps was formally...
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Lord Adolphus Vane-Tempest (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the City of Durham)
with the 2nd (Seaham) Durham Artillery Volunteer Corps formed at the family's Seaham Colliery, Lord Adolphus raised and commanded an infantry corps, the Sunderland...
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The 2nd East Riding Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of Britain's Royal Artillery based at Hull and along the Humber Estuary. Its successor units...
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George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry (category Lord-Lieutenants of Durham)
County Durham, a post he held until his death four years later. He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the 2nd (Seaham) Durham Artillery Volunteer...
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to the 1950s. Beginning from small independent corps of the Volunteer Force recruited in County Durham and Teesside, it became part of the Territorial...
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Sunderland Rifles (redirect from 3rd (Sunderland) Durham Rifle Volunteer Corps)
Regular British Army in case of need. The 3rd (The Sunderland) Durham Rifle Volunteer Corps was one such unit, with the first officers' commissions being...
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Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (category Chancellors of Durham University)
lieutenant in the 2nd (Seaham) Durham Artillery Volunteer Corps, a corps within the Volunteer Force attached to the Royal Garrison Artillery (Western Division)...
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the Durham Light Infantry (DLI) in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, seven pre-existing militia and volunteer battalions...
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1st Durham Artillery Volunteers at Hartlepool – independent from 1st Northumberland 1887 2nd (Seaham) Durham Artillery Volunteers at Seaham 3rd Durham Artillery...
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200 adult volunteers in 41 detachments and four companies, including a band and bugle corps. In 1863, along with the formation of the Volunteer Force, the...
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Berwick-upon-Tweed 1st Durham Artillery Volunteers at Sunderland 2nd Durham (Seaham) Artillery Volunteers at Seaham 3rd Durham Artillery Volunteers at South Shields...
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50th (Northumbrian) Division (category Military units and formations in County Durham)
Durham' and 'Durham Light Infantry (DLI)' Brigades. Each brigade was composed of four infantry battalions, descendants of the local Volunteer corps....
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1st Newcastle Engineers (redirect from 1st Newcastle Engineer Volunteer Corps)
Rifle Volunteer Corps. In 1874 the Newcastle company was united with the larger (8 companies) 1st Durham EV at Jarrow on the opposite (County Durham) bank...
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List of Army Cadet Force units (section Durham ACF)
Sulgrave, Sunderland South, and Washington C Company - Durham, Horden, Houghton-le-Spring, Ryhope, Seaham, Shotton Hall, and Ushaw Moor D Company - Barnard...
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HMS Euryalus, RN: 1981. 205 (3rd Durham Volunteer Artillery) Battery Royal Artillery: 2007. South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade: 11 May 2017. 256 (City...
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Lanarkshire Volunteer Rifle Corps. Colonel the Most Honourable Charles Stewart, Marquis of Londonderry, K.G., G.C.V.O., A.D.C., 2nd Durham (Seaham) Eoyal Garrison...
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Thomas Stanley Hepplewhite, Fore-Overman, Seaham Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board. (Seaham.) Alfred Higham, JP, Surface Foreman, Astley...
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of Parliament for Linlithgow 1922–1924 and 1928–1931; for the Seaham Division of Durham, 1935–1950 and for Easington since 1950. Minister of Fuel and...
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London Transport. May Barker, National Savings Group Collector, Seaham, Co. Durham. John Harrison Barnes, Senior Civil Foreman, Port of Tyne Authority...
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Thomas Ward, Fore-Overman, Vane Tempest Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board. (Seaham). William Noel Warren, Inspector, Metropolitan Police...
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Authority. Miss Freda Knaggs College, Headteacher, Seaham Secondary School, Seaham, County Durham. Annie Elizabeth, Mrs. Collins. For services to the...
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