Great Britain (Volunteers)

Gloucestershire

The lineage of the 6^th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment is on the page The North Somerset Yeomanry / The Gloucestershire Regiment

	Formation of the Volunteer Force
1859:	1st Gloucestershire RVC raised │ │ │ │ │ │	2nd Gloucestershire RVC raised 3rd Gloucestershire RVC raised 4th Gloucestershire RVC raised 5th Gloucestershire RVC raised 6th Gloucestershire RVC raised 8th Gloucestershire RVC raised │	7th Gloucestershire RVC raised │ │ │ │ │ │
1860:	1st Gloucestershire (City of Bristol) Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │ │ │ │ │ │	9th Gloucestershire RVC raised 11th Gloucestershire RVC raised 12th Gloucestershire RVC raised 15th Gloucestershire RVC raised 16th Gloucestershire RVC raised │ all part of 1st Administrative Battalion of Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteers │	10th Gloucestershire RVC raised 13th Gloucestershire RVC raised 14th Gloucestershire RVC raised │ all part of 2nd Administrative Battalion of Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteers │ │ │
1861:	│ │	4th Gloucestershire RVC disbanded │	│ │
1864:	│ │ │ │ │ │ │	7th Gloucestershire RVC added 10th Gloucestershire RVC added 13th Gloucestershire RVC added 14th Gloucestershire RVC added 7th Gloucestershire RVC disbanded 14th Gloucestershire RVC disbanded │
1865:	│ │	6th Gloucestershire RVC absorbed by 5th │
1874:	│ │	13th Gloucestershire RVC disbanded │
1877:	│ │	8th Gloucestershire RVC disbanded │
	Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force
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1880:	│ │ │ │	consolidated as 2nd Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteer Corps │
	The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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1881:	volunteer battalion of The Gloucestershire Regiment │	volunteer battalion of The Gloucestershire Regiment │
1883:	1st (City of Bristol) Volunteer Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment	2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment │
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	Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908:	4th (City of Bristol) Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment (TF)	5th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment (TF)
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1914/ 1918:	1/4th (City of Bristol) Battalion, 2/4th (City of Bristol) Battalion, 3/4th (City of Bristol) Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment │	1/5th Battalion, 2/5th Battalion, 3/5th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment │
	Creation of the Territorial Army
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1921:	4th (City of Bristol) Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment (TA)	5th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment (TA)
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1938:	4th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment (66th Searchlight Regiment) (TA) │	│ │ │ │ │
1939:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	7th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment (TA) │
1940:	66th (Gloucesters) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │
1941:	│ │ │	48th Battalion, The Reconnaisance Corps │	│ │ │
1942:	│ │ │	43rd Battalion, The Reconnaisance Corps │	│ │ │
1942:	│ │ │	43rd Regiment, The Reconnaisance Corps │	│ │ │
1944:	│ │ │	43rd Reconnaisance Regiment, The Royal Armoured Corps │	│ │ │
1945:	suspended animation │	│ │	│ │
	Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947:	601st (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Gloucesters) (TA) │	5th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment (TA) │ │
1950:	601st (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (City of Bristol) (TA) │	│ │ │ │ │
1955:	R (City of Bristol) Battery, 311th (City of Bristol) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA)	│ │ │ │ │
	Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
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1967:	disbanded and formed A Company (Gloucestershire), The Wessex Volunteers and C Squadron, The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars (Territorials)