The Manchester Artillery is a Volunteer unit of the British Army first raised in the City of Manchester in 1860, whose successors continue to serve in...
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Gallipoli until 23/24 September, and the 1st/2nd East Lancs Brigade RFA (Manchester Artillery) arrived in Egypt in May from Britain and remained in Egypt. The...
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(Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery is part of the Army Reserve and primarily has sub-units throughout the Greater Manchester and Merseyside...
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accompanying Imperial Light Horse came under ineffectual artillery fire. The 1st Manchesters, along with the Gordon Highlanders and the Imperial Light...
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52nd (Manchester) Field Regiment was a Royal Artillery (RA) unit of Britain's part-time Territorial Army (TA) during World War II. It was descended from...
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conversion into an anti-aircraft unit of the Royal Artillery between the wars, it defended Manchester, Scapa Flow and Ceylon during the Second World War...
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Brigade (197th FAB), in Manchester, New Hampshire Headquarters Battery, in Manchester, New Hampshire 3rd Battalion, 197th Field Artillery Regiment (M142 HIMARS)...
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December 2006. 207 (Manchester) Field Hospital (Volunteers): 2 February 2011 209 (The Manchester Artillery) Battery 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment...
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of Bolton (/ˈboʊltən/ BOHL-tən) is a metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, named after its largest town, Bolton, but covering a larger...
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The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that...
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commission as a second lieutenant in the 7th Lancashire (The Manchester Artillery) Artillery Volunteers on 9 January 1892. He was promoted to lieutenant...
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Virginia Artillery 1st Regiment, Virginia Light Artillery (Pendleton's) 2nd Regiment, Virginia Artillery 5th Regiment, Virginia Artillery 1st Battalion...
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platoon). Former Batteries 213 (South Lancashire Artillery) Battery – amalgamated with 209 (Manchester and St Helens) Battery in 2001 to form 209/213 Bty...
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The Cheshire Artillery Volunteers was a brigade of Volunteer artillery units raised in the county of Cheshire in the mid-19th century. Their successors...
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granted the subtitle 'The Bolton Artillery', alongside the Manchester Artillery (II East Lancs) and Cumberland Artillery (IV East Lancs). The brigade formed...
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December at the Manchester Artillery Drill Hall in Hyde Road, Ardwick. On 10 December 1914 the 20th–23rd (S) Battalions of the Manchesters (5th–8th City...
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Isle of Man – formed in 2018 209 (Manchester Artillery) Battery, at Belle Vue Street Army Reserve Centre, Manchester 210 (Staffordshire) Battery, at Wolseley...
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into mounted brigades of three regiments each. Royal Horse Artillery units formed artillery support to the mounted brigades. Most of the batteries were...
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Lancashire (The Manchester Artillery) Artillery Volunteers at Manchester 8th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers at Liverpool 9th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers...
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The Royal Artillery Memorial is a First World War memorial located on Hyde Park Corner in London, England. Designed by Charles Sargeant Jagger, with architectural...
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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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Johnny Berry (category Royal Artillery personnel)
also listed as John James Berry, was an English footballer. Berry joined Manchester United from Birmingham City in 1951. Despite his diminutive stature, he...
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central Manchester, many of its buildings are listed. In 1745, during the Jacobite invasion of England, Charles Edward Stuart set up an artillery battery...
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1 January 1947, 5th Bn Manchester Regiment reformed at Wigan as 652 (Manchester) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery. It formed part of 94 (AA)...
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Richard Peacock (category History of Greater Manchester)
eldest son, Colonel Ralph Peacock VD (1838–1928) of the part-time Manchester Artillery Volunteers, succeeded him at Gorton Foundry. Of his daughters the...
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(Manchester) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) 53rd (Bolton) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) 55th (Wessex) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA)...
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and Saint Helens Artillery) Battery, Manchester/St Helens 216 (The Bolton Artillery) Battery, Bolton 104 Regiment, Royal Artillery - MUAS Regimental...
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brigades received official local subtitles – 'Manchester Artillery', 'Bolton Artillery', 'Cumberland Artillery' – the Blackburn-based unit did not, although...
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the bulk of the division. Additionally, the New Zealand Army supplied artillery contingents and an Indian medical unit was also attached. As with the...
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The 1996 Manchester bombing was an attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 15 June 1996. The IRA detonated a 1,500-kilogram...
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