Artillery Volunteers

Ayrshire - Wigtownshire - Kirkcudbrightshire - Lanarkshire

1859:	1st Ayrshire AVC │ │ │ │ │ │			1st Lanarkshire AVC 2nd Lanarkshire AVC 3rd Lanarkshire AVC 4th Lanarkshire AVC 5th Lanarkshire AVC 6th Lanarkshire AVC │
1860:	2nd Ayrshire AVC 3rd Ayrshire AVC 4th Ayrshire AVC 5th Ayrshire AVC │ all part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Ayrshire Artillery Volunteers │ │ │ │ │ │ │	1st Wigtownshire AVC │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	1st Kirkcudbrightshire AVC │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	7th Lanarkshire AVC 8th Lanarkshire AVC 9th Lanarkshire AVC 10th Lanarkshire AVC 11th Lanarkshire AVC │ all part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteers │ 12th Lanarkshire AVC 13th Lanarkshire AVC 14th Lanarkshire AVC 15th Lanarkshire AVC │
1862:	│ │ │ │	2nd Wigtownshire AVC │ │ │	│ │ │ │	consolidated as 1st Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteer Corps │
1863:	│ │			│ │
1867:	3rd Wigtownshire AVC │			│ │
	Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force
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1880:	consolidated as 1st Ayrshire and Galloway Artillery Volunteer Corps │			│ │ │ │
	Creation of the Divisons, Royal Artillery
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1882:	volunteer brigade of Scottish Division │			volunteer brigade of Scottish Division │
	Regrouping into three large divisions
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1889:	part of Southern Division │			part of Southern Division │
1891:	1st Ayrshire and Galloway Volunteer Artillery Corps │			1st Lanarkshire Volunteer Artillery Corps │
	Transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery
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1899:	│ │			│ │
	Division system abolished
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1902:	1st Ayrshire and Galloway Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)			1st Lanarkshire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)
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	Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908:	1st Ayrshire Battery, 2nd Ayrshire Battery, Kirkcudbrightshire Battery, II Lowland Ammunition Column, II Lowland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF)		1st City of Glasgow Battery, 2nd City of Glasgow Battery, 3rd City of Glasgow Battery, III Lowland Ammunition Column, III Lowland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF)		4th City of Glasgow (Howitzer) Battery, 5th City of Glasgow (Howitzer) Battery, IV Lowland Ammunition Column, IV Lowland (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF)
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1914:	1/II Lowland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │	2/II Lowland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │	1/III Lowland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │	2/III Lowland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │	1/IV Lowland (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │	2/IV Lowland (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │
1916:	CCLX Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCCXXVI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCLXI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCCXXVII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCLXII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCCXXVIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │
1916:	CCLXI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	│ │ │	CCLXII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	│ │ │	CCLXIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	│ │ │
1918:	│ │	│ │	│ │	disbanded	│ │	disbanded
1919:	│ │	disbanded	suspended animation │		suspended animation │
1920:	2nd Lowland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │			3rd Lowland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │
	Creation of the Territorial Army
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1921:	79th (Lowland) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TA)			80th (Lowland) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TA)
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1924:	79th (Lowland) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │			80th (Lowland) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1937:	│ │ │			80th (Lowland - City of Glasgow) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1938:	79th (Lowland) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │			80th (Lowland - City of Glasgow) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1939:	│ │ │		130th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	│ │ │		131st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1942:	│ │ │ │		130th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lowland) │	│ │ │ │		131st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lowland - City of Glasgow) │
1946:	suspended animation │		suspended animation │	suspended animation │		suspended animation │
	Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947:	279th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lowland) (TA) │		330th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lowland) (TA) │	280th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lowland - City of Glasgow) (TA) │		disbanded
	│ │ │ │ │	from 328th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lowland) (TA) │	│ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │
1950:	│ │ │ │		330th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lowland) (TA) │	280th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lowland - City of Glasgow) (TA) │
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1955:	279th (Ayrshire) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │ │			280th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (City of Glasgow Artillery) (TA) │
1961:	Q (Ayrshire) Battery, 279th (City of Glasgow and Ayrshire) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │			P (City of Glasgow) Battery, R (City of Glasgow) Battery,
	Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
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1967:	disbanded and formed S (Ayrshire) Battery, T (Glasgow) Battery, The Lowland Regiment Royal Artillery (Territorials)