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The 1st Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army first raised from the Cinque Ports of Kent and Sussex in 1859. It later...

Volunteers, at Dover: 1st Administrative Brigade, Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers 1st A Cinque Ports AVC – raised at Dover as 1st Cinque Ports AVC 6 January...

Cinque Ports), and in September 1862 these artillery volunteer corps (AVCs) were brought together to form the 1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers at...

the Cinque Ports of Sussex and Kent were organised in their own numerical sequence and admin battalions): 1st Administrative Battalion, Sussex Rifle Volunteer...

Sussex Volunteer Regiment in October 1916, having previously volunteered with the 1st Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers and the Inns of Court Volunteer Rifles...

South Devon Volunteers, formed in 1852, who became the 1st Devonshire Rifle Volunteers (and were often referred to as the 1st Rifle Volunteer Corps), and...

the 1st Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers out of the Hastings Rifle Club, which in all but name was the successor of the old Cinque Ports Volunteers of about...

from the regular army in 1880. He was Colonel commanding the 1st Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers and was a JP for Sussex. At the 1885 general election, Brookfield...

The 1st Sussex Rifle Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army first raised from the county of Sussex in 1859. It later became the 6th (Cyclist)...

formed at Folkestone on 7 November 1859 (transferred to the 1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers in April 1860) 4th Kent AVC formed at Sheerness Dockyard...

Lieutenant (Sussex); in politics a Unionist; a subaltern in 1st Cinque Port Rifle Volunteers, and during the First World War he was a Major in the Sussex...

1st Sussex was assigned to the Cinque Ports Division of the Royal Artillery (RA) in 1882, transferring to the Eastern Division after the Cinque Ports...

became a Volunteer Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, but without changing its title or its scarlet uniform faced with blue. When the Volunteers were assigned...

2nd Hampshire Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC) in 1863, and both came under the 4th Administrative Battalion of Hampshire Rifle Volunteers in 1865. In 1870...

Royal Sussex Light Infantry Militia and the Cinque Ports and Sussex units of the Volunteer Force. The 1st Battalion was sent to Egypt as part of General...

viceregal tenure, Willingdon was installed as the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and was elevated in the peerage as the Marquess of Willingdon. After...

Cameron Highlanders), the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps and the Bermuda Militia Infantry. A contingent of volunteers for overseas service from the Bermuda...

regiments. In addition, the various corps of county rifle volunteers were to be designated as volunteer battalions. Each of these regiments was associated...

perceived threat of invasion by France in the late 1850s. Organised as "rifle volunteer corps", they were independent of the British Army and composed primarily...

Artillery, Erith 75th (Home Counties) (Cinque Ports) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, Dover 89th (Cinque Ports) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal...