Artillery Volunteers

Lancashire

1859:	6th Lancashire AVC │ │ │	1st Lancashire AVC 2nd Lancashire AVC(I) 7th Lancashire AVC │
1860:	│ │ │ │ │ │	8th Lancashire AVC │ all part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Lancashire Artillery Volunteers │		25th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │ │ │ │	19th Lancashire AVC │ │ │ │ │
1860:	│ │ │	13th Lancashire AVC(I) 14th Lancashire AVC │		│ │ │	│ │ │
1860:	│ │ │ │	consolidated as 1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteer Corps │		│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │
1860:	20th Lancashire AVC │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	consolidation undone 1st Lancashire AVC 2nd Lancashire AVC(I) 7th Lancashire AVC 8th Lancashire AVC 13th Lancashire AVC(I) 14th Lancashire AVC │ all part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Lancashire Artillery Volunteers │		│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
1860:	│ │ │	8th Lancashire AVC → │ │	→ 8th Lancashire Artillery Volunteer Corps │	│ │ │	│ │ │
1861:	20th Lancashire AVC absorbed by 6th	│	│	│	│
		6th Lancashire AVC 13th Lancashire AVC(I) absorbed by 6th │	│ │ │	│ │ │	19th Lancashire Artillery Volunteer Corps │
1861:		14th Lancashire AVC absorbed by 1st │	│ │	│ │	│ │
1862:		13th Lancashire AVC(II) │	│ │	│ │	│ │
1863:		13th Lancashire AVC(II) disbanded 6th Lancashire AVC disbanded │	│ │ │	│ │ │	│ │ │
1864:		2nd Lancashire AVC(I) disbanded │	│ │		│ │
1869:		7th Lancashire AVC disbanded │ 1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteer Corps │	│ │ │ │ │		│ │ │ │ │
	Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force
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1880:		│ │ │	│ │ │		7th Lancashire Artillery Volunteer Corps │
	Creation of the Divisons, Royal Artillery
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1882:		volunteer brigade of Lancashire Division │	volunteer brigade of Lancashire Division │		volunteer brigade of Lancashire Division │
	Regrouping into three large divisions
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1889:		part of Southern Division │	part of Southern Division │		part of Southern Division │
1891:		1st Lancashire Volunteer Artillery Corps │	8th Lancashire Volunteer Artillery Corps │		7th Lancashire Volunteer Artillery Corps │
	Transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery
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1899:		│ │	│ │		│ │
	Division system abolished
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1902:		1st Lancashire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)	8th Lancashire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)		7th Lancashire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)
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	Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908:		Lancashire and Cheshire Royal Garrison Artillery (TF)	East Lancashire Heavy Battery, West Lancashire Heavy Battery, The Lancashire Heavy Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TF)		15th Lancashire Battery, 16th Lancashire Battery, 17th Lancashire Battery, II East Lancashire Ammunition Column, II East Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF)
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1909:		│ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │		II East Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (The Manchester Artillery) (TF) │
1910:		│ │ │ │ │	1st Lancashire (Liverpool) Heavy Battery, 2nd Lancashire (Liverpool) Heavy Battery, The Lancashire Heavy Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │		│ │ │ │ │
1914:		│ │ │ │ │	1/1st Lancashire (Liverpool) Heavy Battery, 1/2nd Lancashire (Liverpool) Heavy Battery, 1/1st Lancashire Heavy Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery │	2/1st Lancashire (Liverpool) Heavy Battery, 2/2nd Lancashire (Liverpool) Heavy Battery, 2/1st Lancashire Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery │	1/II East Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (The Manchester Artillery) (TF) │	2/II East Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (The Manchester Artillery) (TF) │
1916:		│ │ │	│ │ │	│ │ │	CCXII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCCXXXII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │
1917:		│ │	│ │	│ │	broken up	│ │
1919:		suspended animation │	suspended animation │	disbanded		disbanded
1920:		Lancashire and Cheshire Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │ │ │	part of 4th West Lancashire Medium Brigade, Royal Artillery (TF)		2nd East Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │ │
	Creation of the Territorial Army
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1921:		Lancashire and Cheshire Coast Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TA)			52nd (East Lancashire) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TA)
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1922:		│ │ │			52nd (Manchester) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TA) │
1924:		Lancashire and Cheshire Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │			52nd (Manchester) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1938:		Lancashire and Cheshire Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │			52nd (Manchester) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1939:		│ │ │		110th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	│ │ │
1940:		524th (Lancashire and Cheshire) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery │		│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │
1942:		│ │ │ │		110th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Manchester) (TA) │	│ │ │ │
1945:		619th Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lancashire and Cheshire) │		│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │
1945:		suspended animation │		suspended animation │	suspended animation │
	Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947:		420th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lancashire and Cheshire) (TA) │		310th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Manchester (TA) │	252nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Manchester (TA) │
1953:		│ │ │ │		│ │ │ │	252nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (The Manchester Artillery) (TA) │
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		│ │ │ │ │ │ │	from 634th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (8th Bn, The Lancashire Fusiliers) (TA) │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │
1954:		│ │ │ │ │		310th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (8th Bn, The Lancashire Fusiliers) (TA) │	│ │ │ │ │
1955:		│ │ │ │ │		merged into Q (Salford) Battery, 314th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	│ │ │ │ │
1956:		converted to engineers		│ │	│ │
				│ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │	from part of 314th Heavy Anti-Airctaft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1961:				this battery merged into 253rd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (The Bolton Artillery) (TA)	252nd Regiment, Royal Artillery (The Manchester Artillery) (TA) │ │
1964:					252nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (The Manchester Artillery) (TA) │
	Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
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1967:					disbanded and formed part of 209 (The Manchester Artillery) Battery, 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Light Air Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery