1859: | 1st Devonshire AVC 2nd Devonshire AVC 3rd Devonshire AVC │ │ |
1st Cornwall AVC 2nd Cornwall AVC 3rd Cornwall AVC 4th Cornwall AVC │ |
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1860: | 4th Devonshire AVC 5th Devonshire AVC 6th Devonshire AVC 7th Devonshire AVC 8rd Devonshire AVC 9th Devonshire AVC 10th Devonshire AVC 11th Devonshire AVC 12th Devonshire AVC │ all part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Devonshire Artillery Volunteers │ |
13th Devonshire AVC │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ |
5th Cornwall AVC 6th Cornwall AVC 6th Cornwall AVC absorbed by5th 7th Cornwall AVC 8th Cornwall AVC 9rd Cornwall AVC 10th Cornwall AVC 11th Cornwall AVC 12th Cornwall AVC │ all part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Cornwall Artillery Volunteers │ |
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1861: | 6th Devonshire AVC to → 10th Devonshire AVC to → │ │ │ │ |
→ 6th Devonshire AVC → 10th Devonshire AVC all part of 2nd Administrative Brigade of Devonshire Artillery Volunteers │ |
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1862: | 12th Devonshire AVC to → │ |
→ 12th Devonshire AVC │ |
13th Cornwall AVC │ |
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1863: | │ │ |
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9th Cornwall AVC disbanded │ |
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from 1st Administrative Brigade of Hampshire Artillery Volunteers │ |
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1866: | 1st Dorsetshire AVC ← 3rd Dorsetshire AVC ← 4th Dorsetshire AVC ← │ |
← 1st Dorsetshire AVC ← 3rd Dorsetshire AVC ← 4th Dorsetshire AVC |
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1868: | 5th Dorsetshire AVC │ |
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1869: | 6th Dorsetshire AVC │ |
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1871: | 2nd Devonshire AVC disbanded │ |
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1873: | 1st Dorsetshire AVC → 3rd Dorsetshire AVC → 4th Dorsetshire AVC → 5th Dorsetshire AVC → 6th Dorsetshire AVC → │ │ │ │ |
→ 1st Dorsetshire AVC → 3rd Dorsetshire AVC → 4th Dorsetshire AVC → 5th Dorsetshire AVC → 6th Dorsetshire AVC all part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Hampshire Artillery Volunteers |
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1875: | 14th Devonshire AVC │ |
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1878: | │ │ |
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11th Cornwall AVC disbanded │ |
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Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force | |||||||||
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1880: | consolidated as 1st Devonshire Artillery Volunteer Corps │ |
consolidated as 6th Devonshire Artillery Volunteer Corps │ |
consolidated as 1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall’s) Artillery Volunteer Corps │ |
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1880: | │ │ │ |
2nd Devonshire Artillery Volunteer Corps │ |
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Creation of the Divisons, Royal Artillery | |||||||||
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1886: | 1st Volunteer (Devonshire) Brigade, Western Division, Royal Artillery │ |
2nd Volunteer (Devonshire) Brigade, Western Division, Royal Artillery │ |
3rd Volunteer (Duke of Cornwall’s) Brigade, Western Division, Royal Artillery │ |
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Regrouping into three large divisions | |||||||||
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1889: | 1st Devonshire Artillery Volunteer Corps (Western Division, Royal Artillery) │ |
2nd Devonshire Artillery Volunteer Corps (Western Division, Royal Artillery) │ |
1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall’s) Artillery VolunteerCorps (Western Division, Royal Artillery) │ |
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1891: | 1st Devonshire Volunteer Artillery Corps (Western Division, Royal Artillery) │ |
2nd Devonshire Volunteer Artillery Corps (Western Division, Royal Artillery) │ |
1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall’s) Volunteer Artillery Corps (Western Division, Royal Artillery) │ |
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Transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery | |||||||||
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1899: | 1st Devonshire Volunteer Artillery Corps (Western Division, Royal Garrison Artillery) │ |
2nd Devonshire Volunteer Artillery Corps (Western Division, Royal Garrison Artillery) │ |
1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall’s) Volunteer Artillery Corps (Western Division, Royal Garrison Artillery) │ |
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Division system abolished | |||||||||
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1902: | 1st Devonshire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) |
2nd Devonshire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) |
1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall’s) Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) |
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Creation of the Territorial Force | |||||||||
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1908: | 1st Devonshire Battery, 2nd Devonshire Battery, 3rd Devonshire Battery, IV Wessex Ammunition Column, IV Wessex Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) |
Devonshire Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) |
Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall’s) Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) |
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1914: | 1/IV Wessex Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │ |
2/IV Wessex Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │ |
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1916: | CCXVIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │ |
CCXXVIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │ |
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1919: | suspended animation │ |
disbanded | suspended animation │ |
suspended animation │ |
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1920: | 4th Wessex Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │ |
Devon Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │ │ |
Cornwall Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │ |
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from part of 3rd Wessex Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │ |
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Creation of the Territorial Army | |||||||||
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1921: | 56th (Wessex) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TA) |
Devonshire Coast Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TA) |
Cornwall Coast Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TA) |
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1924: | 56th (Wessex) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
Devonshire Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
Cornwall Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
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1927: | 56th (Wessex) Army Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
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1928: | 56th (Devon) Army Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
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1932: | │ │ │ │ |
Devonshire and Cornwall Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
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1936: | │ │ │ |
Devonshire Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
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1938: | 56th (Devon) Army Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
Devonshire Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
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1938: | 51st (Devon) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
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1939: | │ │ │ │ |
55th (Devon) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
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1940: | │ │ │ |
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Cornwall Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery │ |
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1940: | │ │ │ |
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523rd (Cornwall) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery │ |
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1941: | │ │ │ |
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566th (Devon) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery │ |
567th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery │ |
568th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery │ |
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1943: | │ │ │ │ |
55th Light Anti-Aircraft/Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery │ |
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suspended animation │ │ │ |
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1944: | │ │ │ |
111th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery │ |
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suspended animation │ │ |
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1945: | │ │ │ │ |
suspended animation │ │ │ |
566th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (Devon and Cornwall) │ |
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1946: | │ │ |
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suspended animation │ |
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suspended animation │ |
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1947: | suspended animation │ |
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Resurrection of the Territorial Army | |||||||||
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1947: | 256th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Devon) (TA) │ |
disbanded | 407th/408th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (Devon) (TA) │ |
disbanded | 409th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (Cornwall) (TA) │ |
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1948: | │ │ │ │ |
407th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (Devon) (TA) │ |
408th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Devon) (TA) │ |
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1949: | 256th (Mixed) Light Anti-Aircraft/ Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery (Devon) (TA) │ |
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disbanded | │ │ │ │ │ |
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from 396th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Devon) (TA) │ |
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1950: | 256th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Devon) (TA) │ |
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from 668th (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Devon) (TA) │ |
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1954: | │ │ │ |
407th (Devonshire) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
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from 524th (Mixed) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (7th Bn, The Royal Hampshire Regiment) (TA) │ |
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1955: | Q (Devon) Battery, R (Devon) Battery, 256th (Wessex) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
P (Royal Hampshire) Battery, | │ │ │ │ │ │ |
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1956: | 256th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
409 (Cornwall) Independent Field Squadron, Royal Engineers (TA) │ |
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1961: | merged into 296th (Royal Devon Yeomanry) Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) |
571 Field Squadron, 116th (Devon and Cornwall) Engineer Regiment (TA) │ │ |
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Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve | |||||||||
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1967: | B (Devon Fortress Engineers) Squadron, The Devonshire Territorials (Royal Devon Yeomanry/ The 1st Rifle Volunteers) |
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