Great Britain (Volunteers)

West Lancashire

	Formation of the Volunteer Force
1860:	3rd Lancashire AVC raised 9th Lancashire AVC(Ⅰ) raised 12th Lancashire AVC raised │ 3rd Lancashire AVC becomes 2nd(Ⅱ) 9th Lancashire AVC raised(Ⅰ) absorbed by 2nd(Ⅱ) │ 17th Lancashire AVC raised │ 2nd Lancashire AVC(Ⅱ) becomes 9th(II) │ all part of 2nd Administrative Brigade of Lancashire Artillery Volunteers │		10th Lancashire AVC raised 21st Lancashire AVC raised │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
1863:	9th Lancashire AVC(Ⅱ) absorbed by 12th │ │ │		all part of 4th Administrative Brigade of Lancashire Artillery Volunteers │
1865:	│ │ │		24th Lancashire AVC(Ⅱ) raised 25th Lancashire AVC(Ⅱ) raised │
1867:	│ │ │ │		│ │ │ │
1870:	│ │		27th Lancashire AVC raised │
1875:	│ │		27th Lancashire AVC disbanded │
	Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force
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1880:	consolidated as 12th Lancashire Artillery Volunteer Corps │		consolidated as 10th Lancashire Artillery Volunteer Corps │
1880:	2nd Lancashire Artillery Volunteer Corps │		5th 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 │
	Regrouping into three large divisions
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1889:	part of Southern Division │		part of Southern Division │
1891:	2nd Lancashire Volunteer Artillery Corps │		5th Lancashire Volunteer Artillery Corps │
	Transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery
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1899:	│ │		│ │
	Division system abolished
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1902:	2nd Lancashire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)		5th Lancashire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)
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	Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908:	1st Lancashire Battery, 2nd Lancashire Battery, 3rd Lancashire Battery, I West Lancashire Ammunition Column, I West Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF)		9th Lancashire Battery, 10th Lancashire Battery, 11th Lancashire Battery, II West Lancashire Ammunition Column, II West Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF)
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1914:	1/I West Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │	2/I West Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │	1/II West Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │	2/II West Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │
1916:	CCLXXV Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCLXXXV Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCLXXVI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCLXXXVI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │
1919:	suspended animation │	disbanded	suspended animation │	disbanded
1920:	1st West Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │ │		2nd West Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │ │
	Creation of the Territorial Army
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1921:	87th (1st West Lancashire) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TA)		88th (2nd West Lancashire) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TA)
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1924:	87th (1st West Lancashire) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │		88th (2nd West Lancashire) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1938:	87th (1st West Lancashire) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │		88th (2nd West Lancashire) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1939:	│ │ │	136th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	│ │ │	137th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1945:	│ │	│ │	captured │	captured │
1942:	│ │ │ │	136th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (1st West Lancashire) │	│ │ │ │	137th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (2nd West Lancashire) │
1945:	suspended animation │	│ │	│ │	│ │
1946:	│ │	suspended animation │	│ │	│ │
	Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947:	287th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (1st West Lancashire) (TA) │	336th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (1st West Lancashire) (TA) │	288th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (2nd West Lancashire) (TA) │	337th Heavi Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (2nd West Lancashire) (TA) │
	│ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │	from 597th Light Anti-Aircraft/ Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery (The Loyal) (TA) │
1950:	│ │ │		│ │ │	P Battery, Q Battery, │	R (Loyal) Battery,
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	│ │ │ │ │ │	from 573rd (The King’s Regiment) Heavy Anti-AirCraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	│ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │
1955:	P Battery, R Battery, │	Q (King’s) Battery),	P Battery, Q Battery, │	R (Blackpool) Battery,
	│ │ │ │ │ │	from 306th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lancashire Hussars) (TA) │	│ │ │ │ │ │
1956:	Q (1st West Lancashire) Battery, R (King’s) Battery, 287th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	P (Lancashire Hussars) Battery,	│ │ │ │ │
	│ │ │ │ │	from Q (Wirral) Battery, 441st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	│ │ │ │ │	from 380th Light Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1961:	HQ (Kings) Battery, P (Lancashire Hussars) Battery, Q (1st West Lancashire) Battery,	R (The Wirral) Battery,	│ │ │
	287th (1st West Lancashire) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │		│ │ │ │
1961:	287th (1st West Lancashire) Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │		288th (2nd West Lancashire) Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1964:	287th (1st West Lancashire) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │		288th (2nd West Lancashire) Light Air Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
	Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
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1967:	disbanded and formed P (1st West Lancashire) Battery, The West Lancashire Regiment Royal Artillery (Territorials)		disbanded and formed C (2nd West Lancashire) Company, 4th/5th (Territorial) Battalion, The King’s Own Royal Regiment