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    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...
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  • Artillery Volunteers 1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers 1st Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers 1st (Hanover Square) Middlesex Artillery Volunteer Corps 1st Midlothian...
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  • 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...
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    Wainfleet in Lincolnshire was decommissioned in 2009. It had been in use since 1890 for artillery training by the 1st Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers. Bombing...
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    The 1st Warwickshire Volunteer Artillery, or 'Balsall Heath Artillery', was a part-time unit of Britain's Royal Artillery recruited from Birmingham. It...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, had been formed in June 1900 by detaching six companies from the regiment's 1st Volunteer Battalion...
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    by Ernest William Farebrother as the headquarters of the 1st Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers and completed in 1891. With the formation of the Territorial...
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    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...
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  • sub-division. Alongside the Rifle Volunteers, Artillery Volunteers were also formed: 1st Northumberland (Tynemouth) Artillery Volunteers. Formed in August 1859 in...
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    Suffolk) Norfolk Artillery Volunteers at Great Yarmouth 1st Essex Artillery Volunteers at Stratford 1st Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers at Grimsby On 1 July...
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    Regiment of Artillery Corps of Royal Engineers Royal Horse Artillery Grenadier Guards Coldstream Guards Scots Guards Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) 1st (The...
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  • Wainfleet in Lincolnshire was decommissioned in 2009. It had been in use since 1890 for artillery training, originally by the 1st Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers...
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    Gloucester's Own Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) Battalion – 1st Battalion, 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)...
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  • 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...
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    (North Riding) Artillery Volunteers at Middlesbrough 1st Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers at Grimsby 1st Berwick-on-Tweed Artillery Volunteers at Berwick-upon-Tweed...
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  • 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...
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  • Volunteer Force artillery corps was the 1st Northumberland Artillery Volunteer Corps formed on 2 August, 1859. The Exeter and South Devon Volunteers numbered...
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    Foot - Staffordshire Volunteers in 1802, 1 Battalion 81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) - Loyal Lincoln Volunteers in 1803, 2 Battalions...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 208 (3rd West Lancashire) Battery of 103 (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery in 1973) and the Yeomanry lineage discontinued. United...
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    later 1st Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry The Brothers – King's Own Scottish Borderers Brown's Corps – 1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, raised...
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  • Yorkshire Volunteers re-titled as 3rd (Yorkshire Volunteers) Btn, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment): 1st Btn, Yorkshire...
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    them and the Rifle Volunteers, and most were shortlived. Two such units were raised in Lancashire: 1st Lancashire Mounted Rifle Volunteer Corps, raised 22...
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    battalions: the 1st (Consolidated) Battalion, comprising all the RVCs in Hull, and the 2nd (Administrative) Battalion East York Rifle Volunteers incorporating...
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  • Highland Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers). The battery was equipped with four Ehrhardt 15-pounder guns and allocated as artillery support to the Highland...
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    Brigade (1776–1783) Detroit Volunteers (claimed descent from Roger's Rangers, later became 1st Battalion 119th Field Artillery Regiment, Michigan National...
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  • Volunteer Corps were attached to their local regiments. In 1883 the 8th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers (raised at Bury on 22 August 1859) became the 1st...
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