1852: | Exeter and South Devon Rifle Corps │ |
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1859: | 1st Devonshire (Exeter and South Devon) Rifle Volunteer Corps │ |
2nd Devonshire RVC 3rd Devonshire RVC │ │ |
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1860: | 24th Devonshire RVC │ 24th Devonshire RVC absorbed by 1st │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ |
5th Devonshire RVC 8th Devonshire RVC 11th Devonshire RVC 13th Devonshire RVC 14rd Devonshire RVC 20th Devonshire RVC 25th Devonshire RVC 27th Devonshire RVC │ all part of 2nd Administrative Battalion of Devonshire Rifle Volunteers │ |
16th Devonshire RVC │ all part of 1st Administrative Battalion of Devonshire Rifle Volunteers │ 22th Devonshire RVC │ 3rd Administrative Battalion of Devonshire Rifle Volunteers │ │ │ |
9th Devonshire RVC 10th Devonshire RVC 17th Devonshire RVC 23rd Devonshire RVC 26th Devonshire RVC │ all part of 5th Administrative Battalion of Devonshire Rifle Volunteers │ │ │ │ |
4th Devonshire RVC 6th Devonshire RVC 18th Devonshire RVC 21st Devonshire RVC │ all part of 4th Administrative Battalion of Devonshire Rifle Volunteers │ │ │ │ │ |
19th Devonshire RVC │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ |
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1861: | │ │ │ |
1st Administrative Battalion of Devonshire Rifle Volunteers │ |
2nd Administrative Battalion of Devonshire Rifle Volunteers │ |
4th Administrative Battalion of Devonshire Rifle Volunteers │ |
3rd Administrative Battalion of Devonshire Rifle Volunteers │ |
28th Devonshire RVC(I) 19th Devonshire RVC disbanded │ |
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28th Devonshire RVC(I) │ |
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1865: | │ │ |
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28th Devonshire RVC(I) disbanded │ |
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1868: | │ │ |
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28th Devonshire RVC(II) │ |
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1872: | │ │ |
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4th Devonshire RVC disbanded │ |
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1874: | │ │ |
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16th Devonshire RVC absorbed by 2nd │ |
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1875: | │ │ |
20th Devonshire RVC disbanded │ |
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28th Devonshire RVC(II) disbanded │ |
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1876: | │ │ |
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28th Devonshire RVC(III) │ |
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Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force | ||||||||||
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1880: | │ │ │ │ │ |
consolidated as 5th Devonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │ |
consolidated as 2nd Devonshire (Prince of Wales’s) Rifle Volunteer Corps │ |
consolidated as 9th Devonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │ |
consolidated as 6th Devonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │ |
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1880: | │ │ │ │ |
3rd Devonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │ |
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5th Devonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │ |
4th Devonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │ |
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The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms | ||||||||||
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1885: | 1st (Exeter and South Devon) Volunteer Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment |
3rd Volunteer Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment |
2nd (Prince of Wales’s) Volunteer Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment |
5th (The Hay Tor) Volunteer Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment |
4th Volunteer Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment │ |
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Creation of the Territorial Force | ||||||||||
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1908: | 4th Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment (TF) |
5th (Prince of Wales’s) Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment (TF) |
6th Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment (TF) |
7th (Cyclist) Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment (TF) |
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1914/ 1918: |
1/4th Battalion, 2/4th Battalion, 3/4th Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment │ |
1/5th (Prince of Wales’s) Battalion, 2/5th (Prince of Wales’s) Battalion, 3/5th (Prince of Wales’s) Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment │ |
1/6th Battalion, 2/6th Battalion, 3/6th Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment │ |
1/7th (Cyclist) Battalion, 2/7th (Cyclist) Battalion, 3/7th (Cyclist) Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment │ |
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Creation of the Territorial Army | ||||||||||
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1921: | 4th Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment (TA) |
5th (Prince of Wales’s) Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment (TA) |
6th Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment (TA) |
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1939: | │ │ │ |
8th Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment (TA) │ |
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7th (Haytor) Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment (TA) │ |
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9th Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment (TA) │ |
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1941: | │ │ │ |
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86th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery │ |
87th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery │ |
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1944: | │ │ |
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suspended animation │ |
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1946: | │ │ |
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suspended animation │ |
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Resurrection of the Territorial Army | ||||||||||
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1947: | 4th Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment (TA) │ │ |
5th (Prince of Wales’s) Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment (TA) │ │ |
396th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Devon) (TA) │ |
628th Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │ │ |
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1950: | │ │ │ │ |
merged into 256th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Devon) (TA) |
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1958: | 4th Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment (1st Rifle Volunteers) (TA) │ |
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1958: | The Devonshire Regiment (TA) │ |
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1965: | The Devonshire Regiment (1st Rifle Volunteers) (TA) │ |
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Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve | ||||||||||
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1967: | disbanded and formed HQ Company (Devon), The Wessex Volunteers and C Squadron, The Devonshire Territorials (Royal Devon Yeomanry / 1st Rifle Volunteers) |
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