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    The Volunteer Corps was a British voluntary part-time organization for the purpose of home defence in the event of invasion, during the French Revolutionary...
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    The Volunteer Force was a citizen army of part-time rifle, artillery and engineer corps, created as a popular movement throughout the British Empire in...
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  • Volunteer Corps may refer to: British Volunteer Corps – a British voluntary part-time organization for the purpose of home defence in the event of invasion...
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    men in strength. The idea for the British Free Corps came from John Amery, a British fascist, son of the serving British Secretary of State for India, Leo...
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  • Singapore Volunteer Corps or the Singapore Special Constabulary, was a militia unit established in 1854 as the Singapore Volunteer Rifle Corps. The Corps underwent...
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  • The Singapore Armed Forces Volunteer Corps (SAFVC) is a uniformed volunteer auxiliary branch of the Singapore Armed Forces. It was established on 13 October...
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    Volunteer Fighting Corps (国民義勇戦闘隊, Kokumin Giyū Sentōtai) were armed civil defense units planned in 1945 in the Empire of Japan as a last desperate measure...
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  • The Volunteer Cadet Corps (VCC) is a national youth organisation managed by the United Kingdom's Royal Navy and sponsored by the UK's Ministry of Defence...
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    The Shanghai Volunteer Corps was created on 12 April 1853 during the Small Swords Society's uprising. It saw action alongside British and American military...
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    The Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (BVRC) was created in 1894 as a reserve for the Regular Army infantry component of the Bermuda Garrison. Renamed the...
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    Volunteer Defence Corps defence of Hong Kong during 1941, the Corps was awarded the battle honour "Hong Kong". The colours of the Hong Kong Volunteer...
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    The Volunteer Training Corps was a voluntary home defence reserve force in the United Kingdom during World War I. After war had been declared in August...
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  • The Volunteer Force was a British part-time citizen army extant from 1859–1908. Volunteer force may also refer to: British Volunteer Corps, 1794–1803 Isle...
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    The Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) was an Australian part-time volunteer military force of World War II modelled on the British Home Guard. The VDC was...
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  • ancestry 1778–84 Irish Volunteers Irish Volunteers (18th century), formed to support the Irish Patriot Party 1778–85 British Volunteer Corps, a home defence...
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    The Peace Corps is an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development...
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  • The Serbian Volunteer Corps (Serbian Cyrillic: Српски добровољачки корпус, Serbian: Srpski dobrovoljački korpus, SDK for short; German: Serbisches Freiwilligenkorps)...
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  • units in the 19th century British Empire Sar-El, national project for volunteers for Israel SAF Volunteer Corps, volunteer scheme for the Singapore Armed...
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    The Rangers was a volunteer unit of the British Army, originally formed in 1860. It provided a detachment for service in the Second Boer War, saw intensive...
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  • From the creation of the British Regular Army in 1660, it has been supplemented by part-time volunteer units raised on a local basis. Northamptonshire...
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    The Exeter & South Devon Volunteers was the premier unit of Britain's Volunteer Force. Formed in 1852 it went on to become a battalion of the Devonshire...
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  • to supplement the Regular British Army in time of need. The Welsh island of Anglesey formed three artillery volunteer corps (AVCs) on 14 December 1860:...
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  • Inverness-shire Artillery Volunteers, later the Highland Artillery Volunteers, was a Scottish auxiliary unit of the British Army from 1860 to 1908. With...
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    many Rifle, Artillery and Engineer Volunteer Corps composed of part-time soldiers eager to supplement the Regular British Army in time of need. A public meeting...
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  • Marines Band Service and British Army line infantry bands. Field Music directly reflects the British military volunteer Corps of Drums. Valley Forge Military...
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  • The 1st Gloucestershire Engineer Volunteer Corps was a Volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers, serving from 1861 to 1908. A detachment of the unit...
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  • Wars and were part of the British Volunteer Corps. Raised in 1794 in response to the Volunteer Act 1794, the Leeds Volunteer Corps served for 'the express...
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  • The British Army is listed according to an order of precedence for the purposes of parading. This is the order in which the various corps of the army...
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    became numbered Militia or Volunteer battalions of regular British Army corps or regiments. In 1908, the Yeomanry and Volunteer Force were merged to create...
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  • Regiment (Princess Louise's) is a unit of the British Army, which originated in the Volunteer Rifle Corps' movement of the 1850s. In 1908 it became a battalion...
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