• 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...
    75 KB (10,250 words) - 22:48, 14 January 2024
  • Artillery Volunteers 1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers 1st Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers 1st (Hanover Square) Middlesex Artillery Volunteer Corps 1st Midlothian...
    7 KB (949 words) - 13:52, 2 July 2024
  • 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...
    88 KB (12,146 words) - 17:27, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bombing range
    Wainfleet in Lincolnshire was decommissioned in 2009. It had been in use since 1890 for artillery training by the 1st Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers. Bombing...
    5 KB (551 words) - 19:01, 1 March 2022
  • Thumbnail for Royal Lincolnshire Regiment
    the 1st and 2nd Lincolnshire Rifle Volunteer Corps became the 1st and 2nd Volunteer Battalions (a 3rd Volunteer Battalion was added in 1900). The 1st Battalion...
    59 KB (6,597 words) - 10:18, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1st Warwickshire Volunteer Artillery
    The 1st Warwickshire Volunteer Artillery, or 'Balsall Heath Artillery', was a part-time unit of Britain's Royal Artillery recruited from Birmingham. It...
    96 KB (13,375 words) - 19:35, 16 November 2024
  • formerly Suffolk Artillery Militia Artillery Volunteers: 1st Norfolk; 1st Essex; 1st Lincolnshire HQ at Dover 1st Brigade HQ at Dover 1st–9th Btys and Depot...
    22 KB (1,900 words) - 20:27, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lincolnshire Yeomanry
    The Lincolnshire Yeomanry was a volunteer cavalry unit of the British Army formed in 1794. It saw action in the Second Boer War and the First World War...
    15 KB (1,475 words) - 01:00, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
    the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, had been formed in June 1900 by detaching six companies from the regiment's 1st Volunteer Battalion...
    60 KB (7,907 words) - 08:56, 14 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for Victoria Street North drill hall, Grimsby
    by Ernest William Farebrother as the headquarters of the 1st Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers and completed in 1891. With the formation of the Territorial...
    4 KB (331 words) - 11:08, 26 December 2023
  • sub-division. Alongside the Rifle Volunteers, Artillery Volunteers were also formed: 1st Northumberland (Tynemouth) Artillery Volunteers. Formed in August 1859 in...
    35 KB (4,293 words) - 03:19, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eastern Division, Royal Artillery
    Suffolk) Norfolk Artillery Volunteers at Great Yarmouth 1st Essex Artillery Volunteers at Stratford 1st Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers at Grimsby On 1 July...
    13 KB (1,618 words) - 08:13, 8 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for List of British Army regiments (1881)
    Regiment of Artillery Corps of Royal Engineers Royal Horse Artillery Grenadier Guards Coldstream Guards Scots Guards Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) 1st (The...
    11 KB (1,295 words) - 10:06, 3 October 2024
  • Wainfleet in Lincolnshire was decommissioned in 2009. It had been in use since 1890 for artillery training, originally by the 1st Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers...
    11 KB (919 words) - 18:19, 7 June 2024
  • 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...
    16 KB (1,414 words) - 16:12, 12 August 2023
  • Okehampton Camp, and then to join a scratch '1st Infantry Brigade' formed by the Royal Artillery at Bourne, Lincolnshire. Detachments were sent to the Sussex...
    68 KB (8,496 words) - 09:57, 6 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal Anglian Regiment
    Gloucester's Own Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) Battalion – 1st Battalion, 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)...
    47 KB (4,253 words) - 23:21, 2 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Western Division, Royal Artillery
    (North Riding) Artillery Volunteers at Middlesbrough 1st Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers at Grimsby 1st Berwick-on-Tweed Artillery Volunteers at Berwick-upon-Tweed...
    15 KB (1,680 words) - 14:05, 16 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of British Army Regiments (1800)
    Foot - Staffordshire Volunteers in 1802, 1 Battalion 81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) - Loyal Lincoln Volunteers in 1803, 2 Battalions...
    15 KB (1,672 words) - 00:48, 24 April 2024
  • Volunteer Force artillery corps was the 1st Northumberland Artillery Volunteer Corps formed on 2 August, 1859. The Exeter and South Devon Volunteers numbered...
    26 KB (2,485 words) - 13:12, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Provisional Battalions of the Territorial Force
    train the mass of volunteer recruits coming forward. From 31 August these reserve units were termed '2nd Line', distinguished from their 1st Line parents by...
    21 KB (949 words) - 13:28, 9 June 2024
  • 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...
    65 KB (8,499 words) - 01:54, 27 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of nicknames of British Army regiments
    later 1st Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry The Brothers – King's Own Scottish Borderers Brown's Corps – 1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, raised...
    71 KB (7,375 words) - 22:19, 12 December 2024
  • 208 (3rd West Lancashire) Battery of 103 (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery in 1973) and the Yeomanry lineage discontinued. United...
    18 KB (2,037 words) - 16:58, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry
    them and the Rifle Volunteers, and most were shortlived. Two such units were raised in Lancashire: 1st Lancashire Mounted Rifle Volunteer Corps, raised 22...
    54 KB (6,369 words) - 20:44, 7 March 2024
  • Yorkshire Volunteers re-titled as 3rd (Yorkshire Volunteers) Btn, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment): 1st Btn, Yorkshire...
    23 KB (2,633 words) - 13:11, 11 December 2024
  • detachments of volunteers to serve alongside the Regulars during the Second Boer War, earning the Battle honour South Africa 1900–1902. When the Volunteer Force...
    52 KB (6,470 words) - 07:25, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of British units in the American Revolutionary War
    Brigade (1776–1783) Detroit Volunteers (claimed descent from Roger's Rangers, later became 1st Battalion 119th Field Artillery Regiment, Michigan National...
    24 KB (2,514 words) - 10:57, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for 5th (Cyclist) Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
    battalions: the 1st (Consolidated) Battalion, comprising all the RVCs in Hull, and the 2nd (Administrative) Battalion East York Rifle Volunteers incorporating...
    18 KB (2,214 words) - 13:09, 8 May 2021
  • Highland Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers). The battery was equipped with four Ehrhardt 15-pounder guns and allocated as artillery support to the Highland...
    18 KB (1,712 words) - 23:23, 11 February 2024