• 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 Militia and Volunteers of County Durham are those military units raised in the County independent of the regular Army. The "modern" militia dates...
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  • Artillery 1st Devonshire Artillery Volunteers 1st Dorsetshire Artillery Volunteers 1st Durham Volunteer Artillery 1st East Riding Artillery Volunteers Edinburgh...
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  • 205 (3rd Durham Volunteer Artillery) Battery Royal Artillery is part of the 101st (Northumbrian) Regiment Royal Artillery and is equipped with the M270...
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  • The 1st Durham Rifle Volunteers, later the 5th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry (5th DLI), was a part-time unit of the British Army from 1860 to the 1950s...
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    The 1st Newcastle upon Tyne Artillery Volunteer Corps was a unit of the Volunteer Force raised to supplement the British Army at a time of a perceived...
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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 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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    The 1st Essex Artillery Volunteers was a unit of Britain's part-time auxiliary forces raised in Essex in 1860 in response to an invasion scare. It served...
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    The 1st East Yorkshire Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of Britain's Royal Artillery based in the East Riding of Yorkshire, which also contained...
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  • first artillery unit formed amid the enthusiasm that created the British Volunteer Force in the mid-19th Century was the 1st Northumberland Artillery Volunteer...
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    The 1st Warwickshire Volunteer Artillery, or 'Balsall Heath Artillery', was a part-time unit of Britain's Royal Artillery recruited from Birmingham. It...
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    Riding) Artillery Volunteer Corps but for almost 50 years it had been brigaded as part of the 1st East Riding Artillery Volunteers, later the 1st East Riding...
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  • Hope Battery Garrison Artillery) No. 2 Company (Port Hope, Ontario) (first raised on 22 January 1862 as the Port Hope Volunteer Militia Rifle Company)...
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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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    Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiments and was redesignated as the 1st Georgia Composite Infantry Regiment. It surrendered on April 26, 1865, near Durham, North...
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  • The Durham Artillery Militia was a part-time reserve unit of Britain's Royal Artillery based in County Durham from 1853 to 1909. Volunteers from the unit...
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  • day the 1st (Tynemouth) Volunteer Artillery became the Tynemouth Garrison Artillery, and the remainder, together with the volunteer artillery from County...
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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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    (Seaham) Durham Artillery Volunteers at Seaham 3rd Durham Artillery Volunteers at South Shields 4th Durham Artillery Volunteers at West Hartlepool 1st West...
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    in 1967 in 211 (South Wales) Battery Catterick Troop, 205 (3rd Durham Volunteer Artillery) Battery – formed following Army 2020 Refine at Marne Barracks...
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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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  • When the Volunteers were subsumed into the new Territorial Force (TF) under the Haldane Reforms of 1908, the 1st Nottinghamshire Volunteer Rifle Corps...
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    young man Durham served as a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards and later became Honorary Colonel of the Durham Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, the 6th...
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    Durham City. The five Volunteer Force battalions of Durham Rifle Volunteers – the 1st to 4th Administrative battalions of the Durham Rifle Volunteers...
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  • from those men who had not volunteered for, or were not fit for, overseas service, together with new volunteers, while the 1st Line went overseas to supplement...
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    Sir Hedworth Williamson, 8th Baronet (category People from County Durham)
    He was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Durham and Captain Commandant of the 1st Durham Volunteer Artillery for 28 years from its formation in 1860,...
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  • upon Tyne Hexham Troop, at Dare Wilson Barracks, Hexham 205 (3rd Durham Volunteer Artillery) Battery, at Northfield Gardens, South Shields Catterick Troop...
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    The 1st Durham Engineers, later Durham Fortress Engineers, was a Volunteer unit of the British Army's Royal Engineers. First founded in 1868 it was sometimes...
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    The Metropolitan Artillery Volunteers (popularly known as 'Truro's Tigers') was a part-time unit of the British Volunteer Force formed in the London area...
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