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...
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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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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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Suffolk Artillery Volunteer Corps 1st Suffolk and Harwich Volunteer Artillery 1st Sussex Artillery Volunteers Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery 1st Warwickshire...
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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...
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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...
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Headquarters (Tynemouth Volunteer) Battery, 101st (Northumbrian) Regiment Royal Artillery – formed as HQ Battery, later '(Tynemouth Volunteer)' subtitle...
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Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of Northumberland; Chaplain to the Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery; and an Honorary Canon at Newcastle Cathedral. He was Rector...
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(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...
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5th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (redirect from 1st (Tynemouth) Northumberland Rifle Volunteer Corps)
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...
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Auckland/Doncaster X Company, Newcastle upon Tyne/Tynemouth Z Company, Ashington/Alnwick The Royal Anglian Regiment 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment...
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Northumberland Artillery Volunteers at Alnwick 3rd (The Tynemouth) Northumberland Artillery Volunteers at Tynemouth 1st East Riding Artillery Volunteers at Scarborough...
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(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...
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the first time a higher organisation for the part-time Artillery Militia and Artillery Volunteers. In 1889 these divisions were reorganised into fewer,...
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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...
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Division, Royal Artillery, was an administrative grouping of garrison units of the Royal Artillery, Artillery Militia and Artillery Volunteers within the British...
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Tynemouth Heavy Regiment July 1940, converted to 616th (Tynemouth) Infantry Regiment January 1945 509th (Tynemouth) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA)...
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Somme Archived 26 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine 1st Volunteer Artillery (Tynemouth) Association Skinner 2012, p. 195. "No. 61803". The London Gazette...
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Staffordshire Volunteer Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel William Frederick Filter, the Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery (Western Division...
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Tyne Electrical Engineers (redirect from 537th Searchlight Regiment (Tyne Electrical Engineers), Royal Artillery)
Army Group Royal Artillery Workshop (TEE), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) 537 Searchlight Regiment reformed at Tynemouth as part of 83...
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Artillery Volunteers) Regiment, Royal Artillery — Light gun regiment paired with 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery and 4th Regiment Royal Artillery Regimental...
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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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Uniacke Barracks Royal Artillery Fixed Defences, Northern Ports Royal Artillery Coast Defences, Northern Command, Tynemouth Castle Humber Fire Command...
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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...
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Royal Carmarthen Militia (redirect from Royal Carmarthen Artillery)
between Sunderland and Tynemouth Barracks in 1810–12. In October 1812 the regiment moved to Manchester, where it again volunteered for service in Ireland...
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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...
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Berwickshire, Haddington, Linlithgow and Peebles Militia (redirect from Haddington Artillery (Southern Division) Royal Artillery)
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...
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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...
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Forfar and Kincardine Militia (redirect from Forfar and Kincardine Artillery (Southern Division), Royal Artillery)
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...
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regiment moved to Sunderland with four companies detached to garrison Tynemouth. Another group of 86 men and one officer were supplied to the Regulars...
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