Great Britain (Volunteers)

Cheshire - Shropshire - Anglesey - Isle of Man - Staffordshire - Carnarvonshire

	Formation of the Volunteer Force
1859:			1st Cheshire AVC raised │
1860:	9th Shropshire RVC becomes 1st Shropshire AVC │ │ │ │ │ │ │	1st Staffordshire AVC raised │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	2nd Cheshire AVC raised 3rd Cheshire AVC raised 4th Cheshire AVC raised 5th Cheshire AVC raised │ all part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Cheshire Artillery Volunteers │	1st Anglesey AVC raised 2nd Anglesey AVC raised 3rd Anglesey AVC raised │ │ │ │ │ │
1861:	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │		1st Isle of Man AVC raised │
1862:	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │	1st Carnarvonshire AVC raised │	│ │
1863:			1st Shropshire AVC added 1st Staffordshire AVC added │ │ │ │	1st Carnarvonshire AVC added │ all part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Anglesey Artillery Volunteers │		│ │ │ │ │ │
1864:			│ │	│ │		2nd Isle of Man AVC raised │
1865:			1st Worcestershire AVC raised │	│ │		│ │
1866:		1st Shropshire AVC 1st Staffordshire AVC 1st Worcestershire AVC │ all part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Staffordshire Artillery Volunteers │	← 1st Shropshire AVC ← 1st Staffordshire AVC ← 1st Worcestershire AVC │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │		│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
1867:			1st Shropshire AVC added 1st Staffordshire AVC added 1st Worcestershire AVC added │	│ │ │ │		│ │ │ │
1868:			│ │	2nd Anglesey AVC disbanded │		│ │
1869:	1st Shropshire AVC 1st Staffordshire AVC 1st Worcestershire AVC │ all part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Shropshire Artillery Volunteers │		← 1st Shropshire AVC ← 1st Staffordshire AVC ← 1st Worcestershire AVC 5th Cheshire AVC disbanded │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │		│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
1872:	│ │		│ │	│ │		2nd Isle of Man AVC disbanded │
1873:	1st Worcestershire AVC → │ │ │ │ │	1st Worcestershire AVC part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Monmouthshire Artillery Volunteers	1st Anglesey AVC added 3rd Anglesey AVC added 1st Carnarvonshire AVC added 1st Isle of Man AVC added 1st Cheshire AVC disbanded │
1875:	│ │ │		1st Anglesey AVC disbanded 1st Isle of Man AVC disbanded │
1878:	│ │ │		3rd Anglesey AVC becomes 2nd Carnarvonshire AVC │
	Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force
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1880:	consolidated as 1st Shropshire Artillery Volunteer Corps │		consolidated as 2nd Cheshire Artillery Volunteer Corps │
1880:	1st Shropshire (Shropshire and Stafford) Artillery Volunteer Corps │		1st Cheshire and Carnarvonshire Artillery Volunteer Corps │ │
	Creation of the Divisons, Royal Artillery
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1882:	volunteer brigade of Southern Division │		volunteer brigade of Lancashire Division │
	Regrouping into three large divisions
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1889:	1st Shropshire and Staffordshire Artillery Volunteer Corps part of Southern Division │		part of Southern Division │ │ │
1891:	1st Shropshire and Staffordshire Volunteer Artillery Corps │		1st Cheshire and Carnarvonshire Volunteer Artillery Corps │
	Transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery
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1899:	│ │		│ │
	Division system abolished
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1902:	1st Shropshire and Staffordshire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)				1st Cheshire and Carnarvonshire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)
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1904:	│ │ │ │				1st Cheshire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) │	1st Carnarvonshire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)
	Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908:	1st Staffordshire Battery, 2nd Staffordshire Battery, 3rd Staffordshire Battery, II North Midland Ammunition Column, II North Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF)		The Shropshire Royal Horse Artillery		1st Cheshire Battery, 2nd Cheshire Battery, Flintshire Battery, III Welsh Ammunition Column, III Welsh Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF)
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1909:	│ │ │		│ │ │		│ │ │
1913:	│ │ │		│ │ │		The Cheshire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │
1914:	1/II North Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │	2/II North Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │	1/1st Shropshire Royal Horse Artillery │ │	2/1st Shropshire Royal Horse Artillery │ │	1/1st Cheshire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │	2/1st Cheshire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │
1916:	CCXXXI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCXCVI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	│ │ │	│ │ │	CCLXVII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCCXLII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │
1917:	│ │ │	│ │ │	│ │ │	│ │ │	CCLXV Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	│ │ │
1919:	suspended animation │	disbanded	suspended animation │	disbanded	suspended animation │	disbanded
	│ │ │ │ │		│ │ │ │ │		│ │ │ │ │	from 6th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment │
1920:	2nd North Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │ │				6th (Cheshire and Shropshire) Medium Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │
	Creation of the Territorial Army
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1921:	61st (North Midland) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TA)				60th (6th Cheshire and Shropshire) Medium Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TA)
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1922:	│ │ │ │				│ │ │ │
1924:	61st (North Midland) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │ │				60th (6th Cheshire and Shropshire) Medium Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1938:	61st (North Midland) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │				81st Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1939:	│ │ │	116th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │			│ │ │
1940:	│ │ │	│ │ │			81st Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery │
1942:	│ │ │ │	116th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (North Midland) │			│ │ │ │
1944:	61st Super Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery (North Midland) │	│ │ │ │			│ │ │ │
1944:	│ │	│ │			suspended animation │
1945:	│ │	suspended animation │			│ │
1946:	suspended animation │	│ │			│ │
	Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947:	261st Observation Regiment, Royal Artillery (North Midland) (TA) │	disbanded			360st (Mobile) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1951:	261st Locating Regiment, Royal Artillery (North Midland) (TA) │				│ │ │ │
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1955:	│ │ │ │				R (Stockport) Battery, 314th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA)
1956:	887th (North Midland) Locating Battery, Royal Artillery │
	Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
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1967:	disbanded and formed B (887th Locating Bty) Squadron, The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen’s Own Royal Regiment) (Territorials)