Great Britain (Volunteers)

Essex

	Formation of the Volunteer Force
1859:		2nd Essex RVC raised 3rd Essex RVC raised 4th Essex RVC raised 6th Essex RVC raised │
1860:	15th Essex RVC raised 18th Essex RVC raised 19th Essex RVC raised 21st Essex RVC raised │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	1st Essex RVC raised 7th Essex RVC raised 10th Essex RVC raised 11th Essex RVC raised 12th Essex RVC raised 13th Essex (Stour Valley) RVC raised 14th Essex RVC raised 16th Essex RVC raised 20th Essex RVC raised 23rd Essex RVC raised │ all part of 1st Administrative Battalion of Essex Rifle Volunteers │	5th Essex RVC raised 9th Essex RVC raised │ all part of 2nd Administrative Battalion of Essex Rifle Volunteers │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │		8th Essex RVC raised │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
1861:	1st Essex RVC ← 2nd Essex RVC ← 3rd Essex RVC ← 7th Essex RVC ← 24th Essex RVC raised │ all part of 3rd Administrative Battalion of Essex Rifle Volunteers │	← 1st Essex RVC to ← 2nd Essex RVC to ← 3rd Essex RVC to ← 7th Essex RVC to │ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │		│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
1862:	│ │	14th Essex RVC disbanded │	│ │		│ │
1863:	│ │	11th Essex RVC disbanded │	│ │		│ │
1864:	│ │	│ │	8th Essex RVC added │
1865:	│ │	│ │	8th Essex RVC disbanded │
1866:	│ │ │	│ │ │	5th Essex Rifle Volunteer Corps │		9th Essex Rifle Volunteer Corps │
1870:	│ │	13th Essex (Stour Valley) RVC disbanded │	│ │		│ │
1871:	│ │	20th Essex RVC disbanded │	│ │		│ │
1872:	19th Essex RVC disbanded 21st Essex RVC absorbed by 3rd 24th Essex RVC disbanded │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │		│ │ │ │
1875:	│ │	16th Essex RVC disbanded │	│ │		│ │
1877:	7th Essex RVC disbanded │	│ │	│ │		│ │
	Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force
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1880:	consolidated as 1st Essex Rifle Volunteer Corps │	consolidated as 4th Essex Rifle Volunteer Corps │	│ │ │ │		│ │ │ │
1880:	│ │	2nd Essex Rifle Volunteer Corps	3rd Essex Rifle Volunteer Corps		4th Essex Rifle Volunteer Corps
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	The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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1881:	volunteer battalion of The Essex Regiment │	volunteer battalion of The Essex Regiment │	volunteer battalion of The Essex Regiment │		volunteer battalion of The Essex Regiment │
1883:	1st Volunteer Battalion, The Essex Regiment	2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Essex Regiment	3rd Volunteer Battalion, The Essex Regiment		4th Volunteer Battalion, The Essex Regiment
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	Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908:	4th Battalion, The Essex Regiment (TF)	5th Battalion, The Essex Regiment (TF)	6th Battalion, The Essex Regiment (TF)		7th Battalion, The Essex Regiment (TF)
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	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │		│ │ │ │	from part of The Essex and Suffolk Cyclist Battalion (TF) │
1910:	│ │	│ │	│ │		│ │	8th (Cyclist) Battalion, The Essex Regiment (TF)
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1914/ 1918:	1/4th Battalion, 2/4th Battalion, 3/4th Battalion, The Essex Regiment │	1/5th Battalion, 2/5th Battalion, 3/5th Battalion, The Essex Regiment │	1/6th Battalion, 2/6th Battalion, 3/6th Battalion, The Essex Regiment │		1/7th Battalion, 2/7th Battalion, 3/7th Battalion, The Essex Regiment │	1/8th (Cyclist) Battalion, 2/8th (Cyclist) Battalion, 3/8th (Cyclist) Battalion, The Essex Regiment │
	Creation of the Territorial Army
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1921:	4th Battalion, The Essex Regiment (TA)	5th Battalion, The Essex Regiment (TA)	6th Battalion, The Essex Regiment (TA)		7th Battalion, The Essex Regiment (TA)	disbanded
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1935:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │		59th (The Essex Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1938:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	6th Battalion, The Essex Regiment (64th Searchlight Regiment) (TA) │		│ │ │ │	82nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │ │
1939:	1/4th Battalion, 2/4th Battalion, The Essex Regiment │	1/5th Battalion, 2/5th Battalion, The Essex Regiment │	1/6th Battalion, The Essex Regiment (64th Searchlight Regiment) (TA) │	2/6th Battalion, The Essex Regiment (65th Searchlight Regiment) (TA) │	59th (The Essex Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	82nd Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │ │
1940:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	64th (Essex Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery │	65th (Essex Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery │	59th (The Essex Regiment) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery │	82nd (Essex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1944:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	65th Garrison Regiment, Royal Artillery (Essex Regiment) │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │
1945:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	639th Regiment, Royal Artillery (Essex Regiment) │	607th Regiment, Royal Artillery (Essex Regiment) │	suspended animation │ │ │	│ │ │ │
1946:	│ │	│ │	suspended animation │	suspended animation │	│ │	│ │
1947:	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │	suspended animation │
	Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947:	4th Battalion, The Essex Regiment (TA) │ │ │	646th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (5th Bn, The Essex Regiment) (TA) │ │	599th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Essex Regiment) (TA) │ │	600th (Mobile) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Essex Regiment) (TA) │	459th (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (The Essex Regiment) (TA) │	482nd (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Essex) (TA) │
1948:	│ │ │ │	646th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (5th Essex) (TA) │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │
1955:	│	HQ Battery,	Q Battery,	P Battery,		R Battery,
	│ │ │ │	517th (5th Essex) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA)			459th (Essex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1958:	transferred to 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) │				│ │ │ │ │
1961:	4th/5th Battalion, The Essex Regiment (TA) │ │				P Battery, 300th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery (TA)
1964:	transferred to The Royal Anglian Regiment │
	Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
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1967:	disbanded and formed elements of 3rd (16th/44th Foot) Company, 5th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment and The Essex Regiment (Territorials)