• The Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery claims to be the oldest volunteer artillery unit of the British Army. It served coastal and siege guns in World War...
    38 KB (4,462 words) - 17:17, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Volunteer Force
    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...
    31 KB (3,660 words) - 04:33, 17 December 2024
  • day the 1st (Tynemouth) Volunteer Artillery became the Tynemouth Garrison Artillery, and the remainder, together with the volunteer artillery from County...
    35 KB (4,293 words) - 03:19, 20 September 2024
  • Suffolk Artillery Volunteer Corps 1st Suffolk and Harwich Volunteer Artillery 1st Sussex Artillery Volunteers Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery 1st Warwickshire...
    7 KB (949 words) - 13:52, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tynemouth
    Tynemouth (/ˈtaɪnmaʊθ/) is a coastal town in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, in Tyne and Wear, England. It is located on the north side of...
    41 KB (4,381 words) - 14:19, 24 December 2024
  • plans for the TF, the 1st Durham RGA was to combine with the Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery to form a Northumberland and Durham RGA (and spin off a battery...
    60 KB (7,594 words) - 13:20, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Royal Artillery batteries
    Headquarters (Tynemouth Volunteer) Battery, 101st (Northumbrian) Regiment Royal Artillery – formed as HQ Battery, later '(Tynemouth Volunteer)' subtitle...
    37 KB (1,935 words) - 12:53, 18 November 2024
  • Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of Northumberland; Chaplain to the Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery; and an Honorary Canon at Newcastle Cathedral. He was Rector...
    2 KB (245 words) - 10:44, 22 June 2021
  • Thumbnail for 1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall's) Artillery Volunteers
    (Duke of Cornwall's) Artillery Volunteers were formed in 1860 as a response to a French invasion threat. They served as a Coast Artillery unit during both...
    68 KB (8,873 words) - 05:19, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 5th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
    Northumberland Rifle Volunteer Corps, also referred to as the Tynemouth Rifles, was an infantry unit of Britain's part-time Volunteer Force, raised as part...
    36 KB (4,199 words) - 14:34, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Territorial Army units (2012)
    Auckland/Doncaster X Company, Newcastle upon Tyne/Tynemouth Z Company, Ashington/Alnwick The Royal Anglian Regiment 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment...
    34 KB (3,089 words) - 10:24, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Northern Division, Royal Artillery
    Northumberland Artillery Volunteers at Alnwick 3rd (The Tynemouth) Northumberland Artillery Volunteers at Tynemouth 1st East Riding Artillery Volunteers at Scarborough...
    9 KB (923 words) - 19:30, 1 September 2021
  • (MLRS). The origins of the Regiment can be traced back to 1860 when Artillery Volunteer units were raised in the United Kingdom, as a result of threats of...
    10 KB (669 words) - 16:08, 29 June 2024
  • the first time a higher organisation for the part-time Artillery Militia and Artillery Volunteers. In 1889 these divisions were reorganised into fewer,...
    22 KB (1,900 words) - 20:27, 27 October 2024
  • headquarters was at Tynemouth, but it moved to Newcastle upon Tyne in December 1854. In May 1860, while the Northumberland Artillery was embodied for service...
    12 KB (1,339 words) - 20:29, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Western Division, Royal Artillery
    Division, Royal Artillery, was an administrative grouping of garrison units of the Royal Artillery, Artillery Militia and Artillery Volunteers within the British...
    15 KB (1,680 words) - 14:05, 16 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of regiments of the Royal Artillery (1938–1947)
    Tynemouth Heavy Regiment July 1940, converted to 616th (Tynemouth) Infantry Regiment January 1945 509th (Tynemouth) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA)...
    158 KB (17,390 words) - 08:49, 21 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lochnagar mine
    Somme Archived 26 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine 1st Volunteer Artillery (Tynemouth) Association Skinner 2012, p. 195. "No. 61803". The London Gazette...
    30 KB (3,894 words) - 03:44, 21 December 2024
  • Staffordshire Volunteer Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel William Frederick Filter, the Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery (Western Division...
    33 KB (4,062 words) - 10:09, 8 September 2024
  • Army Group Royal Artillery Workshop (TEE), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) 537 Searchlight Regiment reformed at Tynemouth as part of 83...
    61 KB (8,221 words) - 20:46, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of current Army Reserve units of the British Army
    Artillery Volunteers) Regiment, Royal Artillery — Light gun regiment paired with 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery and 4th Regiment Royal Artillery Regimental...
    111 KB (8,489 words) - 20:17, 13 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2nd (Seaham) Durham Artillery Volunteer Corps
    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...
    55 KB (6,870 words) - 07:42, 8 August 2024
  • Uniacke Barracks Royal Artillery Fixed Defences, Northern Ports Royal Artillery Coast Defences, Northern Command, Tynemouth Castle Humber Fire Command...
    218 KB (22,502 words) - 14:50, 15 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for 44th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
    Royal Artillery. On the outbreak of war in August 1914, units of the part-time Territorial Force (TF) moved into their war stations. The Tynemouth Royal...
    16 KB (2,061 words) - 17:19, 27 October 2024
  • between Sunderland and Tynemouth Barracks in 1810–12. In October 1812 the regiment moved to Manchester, where it again volunteered for service in Ireland...
    52 KB (6,935 words) - 13:47, 25 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for 541st Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery
    disbanded at the end of the war. Despite the proliferation of artillery units of the Volunteer Force around the coasts of the United Kingdom in the 19th Century...
    10 KB (1,222 words) - 17:51, 22 January 2023
  • Volunteers) to take their place in the six Army Corps proposed by St John Brodrick as Secretary of State for War. Some batteries of Militia Artillery...
    27 KB (3,190 words) - 10:54, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clifford's Fort
    associated with the long-established nearby defences of Tynemouth Castle, and the Governor of Tynemouth had oversight of the Fort through until 1839. By the...
    11 KB (1,086 words) - 03:10, 2 September 2024
  • Dunbar on 7 May 1810, followed by Newcastle upon Tyne on 28 May 1810 and Tynemouth on 10 June 1811. The establishment was reduced to quota again on 17 September...
    32 KB (3,724 words) - 19:08, 9 September 2024
  • regiment moved to Sunderland with four companies detached to garrison Tynemouth. Another group of 86 men and one officer were supplied to the Regulars...
    42 KB (5,815 words) - 01:03, 1 December 2024