Great Britain (Volunteers)

Kent

	Formation of the Volunteer Force
1859:		1st Kent AVC raised 2nd Kent AVC raised 3rd Kent AVC raised │
1860:		3nd Kent AVC becomes 1st Cinque Ports AVC(Ⅱ) 4th Kent AVC raised 5th Kent AVC raised 9th Kent AVC raised 11th Kent AVC raised 12th Kent AVC raised 13th Kent AVC raised │ all part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Kent Artillery Volunteers │
1866:		4th Kent AVC absorbed by 13th │
1870:			9th Kent AVC → │	9th Kent Artillery Volunteer Corps
	Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force
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1880:		consolidated as 1st Kent Artillery Volunteer Corps │
	Creation of the Divisons, Royal Artillery
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1882:		volunteer brigade of Cinque Ports Division │
1897:		3rd Volunteer (Kent) Brigade, Cinque Ports Division, Royal Artillery │
	Regrouping into three large divisions
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1889:		1st Kent Artillery Volunteer Corps (Eastern Division, Royal Artillery) │
1891:		1st Kent Volunteer Artillery Corps (Eastern Division, Royal Artillery) │
	Transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery
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1899:		1st Kent Volunteer Artillery Corps (Eastern Division, Royal Garrison Artillery) │
	Division system abolished
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1902:		1st Kent Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)
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			│ │ │ │ │			two companies from 1st Sussex Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) │
	Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908:	1st Kent (Howitzer) Battery, 2nd Kent (Howitzer) Battery, IV Home Counties Ammunition Column, IV Home Counties (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery		seven companies → Home Counties (Kent) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (TF)		Kent and Sussex Royal Garrison Artillery (TF)
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1910:	│ │		│ │		Kent Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │	Sussex Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │
1914:	1/IV Home Counties (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	2/IV Home Counties (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	1/1st Home Counties (Kent) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │	2/1st Home Counties (Kent) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │
1916:	CCXXIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCCXXXVIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	│ │ │	│ │ │	│ │ │	│ │ │
1916:	│ │	broken up	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │
1919:	suspended animation │		suspended animation │	disbanded	suspended animation │	suspended animation │
1920:	13th (Kent) Medium Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │		← 205th (Chatham and Faversham) Battery,		Kent Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │ │	Sussex Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │ │
	Creation of the Territorial Army
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1921:	52nd (Kent) Medium Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TA)				Kent Coast Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TA)	Sussex Coast Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TA)
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1924:	52nd (Kent) Medium Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │				Kent Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │	Sussex Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1932:	│ │ │ │			two batteries to Thames and Medway Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA)	Kent and Sussex Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │ │
1935:	58th (Kent) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │				│ │ │
1938:	58th (Kent) Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	73rd (Kent Fortress) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers (TA)			Kent and Sussex Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
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1940:	58th (Kent) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery	73rd Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery		519th (Kent and Sussex) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery	520th (Kent and Sussex) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery	521st (Kent and Sussex) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery
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1944:	│ │	suspended animation │		│ │	│ │	│ │
1945:	suspended animation │	│ │		│ │	│ │	suspended animation │
1946:	│ │	│ │		suspended animation │	suspended animation │	│ │
	Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947:	458th (Mixed) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Kent) (TA) │	608th (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Kent) (TA) │		410th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (Kent) (TA) │ │	disbanded	411th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (Sussex) (TA) │ │
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	│ │ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │	from 564th (Mixed) Light Anti-Aircraft/ Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │		│ │ │ │ │ │ │
1955:	P Battery,	HQ Battery, S Battery,	Q Battery, R Battery,	│ │		│ │
	458th (Kent) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │			│ │ │ │		│ │ │ │
1956:	│ │ │ │			5th Battalion, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) (TA)		reorganised as part of Port and Travel Control Group
1961:	P (Kent) Battery, 265th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA)