Artillery Volunteers

Caithness-shire - Ross-shire - Orkney - Sutherland

1860:	1st Sutherland AVC │ │	1st Caithness-shire AVC 2nd Caithness-shire AVC │	1st Ross-shire AVC │ │	1st Orkney AVC │ │
1861:	│ │	3rd Caithness-shire AVC │	│ │	│ │
1863:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	2nd Orkney AVC 3rd Orkney AVC 4th Orkney AVC │
	│ │ │ │	all part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Caithness-shire Artillery Volunteers │
1865:	│ │	5th Orkney AVC │
1866:	│ │ │ │	4th Caithness-shire AVC 5th Caithness-shire AVC 6th Orkney AVC │	2nd Ross-shire AVC attached to 1st Inverness-shire AVC
1867:	2nd Sutherland AVC │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	1st Orkney AVC → 2nd Orkney AVC → 3rd Orkney AVC → 4th Orkney AVC → 5th Orkney AVC → 6th Orkney AVC → 1st Ross-shire AVC to → │ │ │	→ 1st Ross-shire AVC attached to 1st Inverness-shire AVC	→ 1st Orkney AVC → 2nd Orkney AVC → 3rd Orkney AVC → 4rd Orkney AVC → 5rd Orkney AVC → 6th Orkney AVC all part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Orkney Artillery Volunteers │
1867:		6th Caithness-shire AVC 1st Sutherland AVC 2nd Sutherland AVC │		│ │ │ │
1868:		│ │		7th Orkney AVC │
1870:		│ │		8th Orkney AVC │
1873:		3rd Caithness-shire AVC disbanded │		│ │
1874:		│ │		9th Orkney AVC │
1877:		│ │		7th Orkney AVC disbanded │
1878:		6th Caithness-shire AVC disbanded │		10th Orkney AVC │
	Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force
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1880:		consolidated as 1st Caithness-shire (Caithness and Sutherland) Artillery Volunteer Corps │		consolidated as 1st Orkney Artillery Volunteer Corps │ │
	Creation of the Divisons, Royal Artillery
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1882:		volunteer brigade of Scottish Division │		volunteer brigade of Scottish Division │
	Regrouping into three large divisions
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1889:		part of Southern Division │		part of Southern Division │
1891:		1st Caithness-shire (Caithness and Sutherland) Volunteer Artillery Corps │		1st Orkney Volunteer Artillery Corps │ │
	Transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery
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1899:		│ │		│ │
	Division system abolished
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1902:		1st Caithness-shire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)		1st Orkney Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)
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	Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908:		disbanded		Orkney Royal Garrison Artillery (TF)
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1918:				suspended animation │
1920:				Orkney Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │
	Creation of the Territorial Army
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1921:				Orkney Coast Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TA)
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1922:				suspended animation │
1938:				Orkney Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1940:			533rd (Orkney) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	534th (Orkney) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	535th (Orkney) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1945:			│ │	suspended animation │	suspended animation │
1946:			suspended animation │	│ │	│ │
	Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947:			430th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (Orkney) (TA) │	disbanded	disbanded
1951:			430th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (Orkney and Zetland) (TA) │
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1956:		861st (Independent) Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery (TA) (Orkney and Zetland) │
1961:		Q (Orkney and Zetland) Battery, 540th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery (TA) (Lovat Scouts)