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The 1st Devonshire Artillery Volunteers and its successor units served in the British Army's Reserve Forces from 1859 to 1961. During World War I it carried...

The 2nd Devonshire Artillery Volunteers was a unit of the British Volunteer Force and Territorial Army. The unit and its successors defended Plymouth...

Cadet Corps was transferred to the 2nd VB from the 2nd Devonshire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers). An extra company (M) was formed in 1900, but the...

The 1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall's) Artillery Volunteers were formed in 1860 as a response to a French invasion threat. They served as a Coast Artillery...

in Devonshire, on the outskirts of Hamilton, it was called Prospect Camp. The camp housed other units, as well, including Royal Garrison Artillery detachments...

Brigade of the Royal Garrison Artillery; the 10th (Cyclist) Battalion briefly became the 1st (Linlithgow) Light Bridging Company, Royal Engineers, and...

South Devon Volunteers was the premier unit of Britain's Volunteer Force. Formed in 1852 it went on to become a battalion of the Devonshire Regiment. Both...

The 12th (Garrison) Battalion was created in November 1939 and formally came into existence on 18 January 1940 at Newton Abbot in Devonshire. Formed mainly...

The 1st Devonshire Engineer Volunteer Corps, later the Devonshire Fortress Royal Engineers, was a volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers whose history...

The 1st Sussex Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery from 1859 to 1961. Raised as coastal defence artillery, the...

The 1st Hampshire Artillery Volunteers and its successors were part-time coast defence units of the British Army from 1860 to 1967. Although the units...

form the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment which, in 2007, was amalgamated with the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, the Royal Green...

Regiment. A number of units, particularly those attached to the Royal Garrison Artillery and Royal Engineers, had their titles altered again in 1910. Yeomanry...

Groups Royal Artillery). 1st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Reg) 2nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Reg) 3rd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Reg)...

The 1st Dorsetshire Artillery Volunteers and its successors were part-time coast defence units of the British Army from 1859 to 1956. Although these units...

1889 1st Volunteer Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers – from 1st Denbighshire Volunteers' 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers – from 1st Flintshire...

Beckett. Spiers, pp. 163–8. Westlake, Rifle Volunteers, pp. 228–9. Beckett, Appendix VII. Volunteers at Queens Royal Surreys Haswell, pp. 122–4. Croydon at...

Own) based in Lancaster 4th (1st Royal Lancashire Militia) Battalion, from the 2nd Bn of the former Militia 1st Volunteer Battalion based in Ulverston...

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...

69th (3rd City of London) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery. For most of the Second World War, the 1st Battalion was part of the 17th Indian Infantry...