Artillery Volunteers

Essex

1860:		2nd Essex AVC(I) │	3rd Essex AVC(I) │
1860:		2nd Essex AVC(I) → 1st │	3rd Essex AVC(I) → 2nd(II) │
1861:		│ │	│ │	3rd Essex AVC(II) │
1863:		atached to 1st Norfolk AVC │	│ │ │	│ │ │
1864:		part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Norfolk Artillery Volunteers │	│ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │
	Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force
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1880:		No 5 Battery, 1st Norfolk (Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk) Artillery Volunteer Corps │	consolidated as 1st Essex Artillery Volunteer Corps │ │
1880:		this Harwich battery	│ │
	Creation of the Divisons, Royal Artillery
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1882:			volunteer brigade of Eastern Division │
1886:			2nd Volunteer (Essex) Brigade, Eastern Division, Royal Artillery │
	Regrouping into three large divisions
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1889:			1st Essex Artillery Volunteer Corps (Eastern Division, Royal Artillery) │
1891:			1st Essex Volunteer Artillery Corps (Eastern Division, Royal Artillery) │
1899:			│ │ │ │ │	two Harwich batteries to 1st Suffolk and Harwich Volunteer Artillery Corps (Eastern division, Royal Artillery)
	Transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery
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1899:			1st Essex Volunteer Artillery Corps (Eastern Division, Royal Garrison Artillery) │
	Division system abolished
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1902:			1st Essex Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)
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	Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908:	East Anglian (Essex) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (TF)		1st Essex Battery, 2nd Essex Battery, 3rd Essex Battery, II East Anglian Ammunition Column, II East Anglian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF)	five companies of Essex and Suffolk Royal Garrison Artillery (TF)
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1914:	1/1st East Anglian (Essex) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │	2/1st East Anglian (Essex) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │	1/II East Anglian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │ │	2/II East Anglian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │ │
1916:	│ │ │	│ │ │	CCLXXI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCCXLVI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │
1919:	suspended animation │	disbanded	suspended animation │	disbanded
	│ │ │ │ │	from 6th (Cyclist Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment (TF) │	│ │ │ │ │	from The Essex Royal Horse Artillery (TF) │
1920:	11th (Essex and Suffolk) Medium Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │		2nd East Anglian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │ │
	Creation of the Territorial Army
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1921:	58th (Essex and Suffolk) Medium Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TA)		85th (East Anglian) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TA)
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1924:	58th (Essex and Suffolk) Medium Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │		85th (East Anglian) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │ │
1932:	58th (Suffolk) Medium Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │		│ │ │
1938:	58th (Suffolk) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │		85th (East Anglian) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1939:	│ │ │	67th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	│ │ │	134th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1942:	│ │ │ │	67th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (Suffolk) (TA) │	│ │ │ │	134th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (East Anglian) (TA) │
1943:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	85th Mountain Regiment, Royal Artillery (East Anglian) │	134th Jungle Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (East Anglian) (TA) │
1944:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	134th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (East Anglian) (TA) │
1945:	│ │	│ │	suspended animation │	│ │
1946:	suspended animation │	suspended animation │	│ │	suspended animation │
	Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947:	358th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (Suffolk) (TA) │	disbanded	285th Airborne Light Regiment, Royal Artillery (Essex) (TA) │	disbanded
1950:	merged into 358th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Suffolk Yeomanry) (TA)		│ │ │ │ │
1951:			285th Airborne Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Essex) (TA) │
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1955:			285th (Essex) Parachute Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1956:			P Battery, 289th Parachute Light Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA)