Great Britain (Volunteers)

Aberdeenshire - Kincardineshire - Banffshire

	Formation of the Volunteer Force
1860:	1st Aberdeenshire RVC raised 17th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅰ) raised 18th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅰ) raised 1st Aberdeenshire RVC becomes 2nd 17th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅰ) becomes 5th 18th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅰ) becomes 6th(Ⅱ) 12th Aberdeenshire RVC raised(Ⅱ) 13th Aberdeenshire RVC raised(Ⅱ) 15th Aberdeenshire RVC raised 16th Aberdeenshire RVC raised │ │ │ │ │ │	21st Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅰ) raised 21st Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅰ) becomes 9th(Ⅱ) 17th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅱ) raised │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	1st Kincardineshire RVC raised 2nd Kincardineshire RVC raised 3rd Kincardineshire RVC raised 4th Kincardineshire RVC raised 5th Kincardineshire RVC raised 6th Kincardineshire RVC raised │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	3rd Aberdeenshire RVC raised 4th Aberdeenshire RVC raised 19th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅰ) raised 20th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅰ) raised 22nd Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅰ) raised 23rd Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅰ) raised 19th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅰ) becomes 7th(Ⅱ) 20th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅰ) becomes 8th(Ⅱ) 22nd Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅰ) becomes 10th 23rd Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅰ) becomes 11th(Ⅱ) 14th Aberdeenshire RVC raised │ all part of 1st Administrative Battalion of Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteers │		1st Banffshire RVC(Ⅰ) raised 2nd Banffshire RVC(Ⅰ) raised 3rd Banffshire RVC(Ⅰ) raised 4th Banffshire RVC raised │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
1861:	all part of 2nd Administrative Battalion of Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteers │ │ │	20th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅱ) raised │ │ │ │ │	7th Kincardineshire RVC raised │ all part of 1st Administrative Battalion of Kincardineshire Rifle Volunteers │	│ │ │ │ │ │	21st Aberdeenshire (Marquis of Huntly’s Highland) RVC(Ⅱ) raised │ │ │ │	all part of 1st Administrative Battalion of Banffshire Rifle Volunteers │ │ │
1862:	5th Aberdeenshire RVC to → │ │ │ │ │	→ 5th Aberdeenshire RVC │ all part of 3rd Administrative Battalion of Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteers │	│ │ │ │ │ │	22nd Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅱ) raised │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │	1st Banffshire RVC(Ⅰ) disbanded 2nd Banffshire RVC(Ⅰ) becomes 1st(Ⅱ) 3rd Banffshire RVC(Ⅰ) becomes 2nd(Ⅱ) 3rd Banffshire RVC(Ⅱ) raised │ │
1863:	12th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅱ) disbanded │	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │	5th Banffshire RVC raised │
1864:	12th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅲ) raised │	│ │	│ │	23rd Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅱ) raised │	│ │	│ │
1866:	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │	4th Banffshire RVC abdorbed by 3rd(Ⅱ) │
1867:	18th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅱ) raised │	24th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅰ) raised │	│ │	19th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅱ) raised │	│ │	6th Banffshire RVC raised │
1868:	│ │ │ │ │ │	25th Aberdeenshire RVC raised │ 3rd Administrative Battalion of Aberdeenshire (The Buchan) Rifle Volunteers │	│ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │	7th Banffshire RVC raised │ │ │ │ │
1869:	│ │	│ │	8th Kincardineshire RVC raised │	│ │	│ │	│ │
1870:	│ │	│ │	1st Kincardineshire RVC disbanded │	│ │	│ │	│ │
1871:	│ │ │	│ │ │	4th Kincardineshire RVC absorbed by 5th │ │	21st Aberdeenshire (Marquis of Huntly’s Highland) RVC(Ⅱ) added │		│ │ │
1872:	│ │	26th Aberdeenshire RVC raised │	│ │	│ │		│ │
1873:	│ │	│ │	3rd Kincardineshire RVC absorbed by 5th │	│ │		│ │
1875:	│ │ │	24th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅰ) absorbed by 9th 24th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅱ) raised │	│ │ │	│ │ │		│ │ │
1876:	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	8th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅱ) ← 14th Aberdeenshire RVC← 21st Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅱ) ← 23rd Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅱ) ← │ 1st Administrative Battalion of Kincardineshire (Deeside Highland) Rifle Volunteers │	← 8th Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅱ) to ← 14th Aberdeenshire RVC to ← 21st Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅱ) to ← 23rd Aberdeenshire RVC(Ⅱ) to │ │ │ │ │		│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
	Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force
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1880:	consolidated as 2nd Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │	consolidated as 5th Aberdeenshire (The Buchan) Rifle Volunteer Corps │	consolidated as 2nd Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire (Deeside Highland) Rifle Volunteer Corps │	consolidated as 3rd Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │		consolidated as 1st Banffshire Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │
1880:	│ │ │	3rd Aberdeenshire (The Buchan) Rifle Volunteer Corps	1st Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire (Deeside Highland) Rifle Volunteer Corps	4th Aberdeenshire 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 Gordon Highlanders │	volunteer battalion of The Gordon Highlanders │	volunteer battalion of The Gordon Highlanders │	volunteer battalion of The Gordon Highlanders │		volunteer battalion of The Gordon Highlanders │
1884:	2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders │	3rd (The Buchan) Volunteer Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders	5th (Deeside Highland) Volunteer Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders	4th Volunteer Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders		6th Volunteer Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders
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1893:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	4th (Donside Highland) Volunteer Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders │		│ │ │ │
	Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908:	5th (Buchan and Formartin) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders (TF)		7th (Deeside) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders (TF)	6th (Banff and Donside) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders (TF)
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1914/ 1918:	1/5th (Buchnan and Formartin) Battalion, 2/5th (Buchnan and Formartin) Battalion, 3/5th (Buchnan and Formartin) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders) │		1/7th (Deeside Highland) Battalion, 2/7th (Deeside Highland) Battalion, 3/7th (Deeside Highland) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders) │	1/6th (Banff and Donside) Battalion, 2/6th (Banff and Donside) Battalion, 3/6th (Banff and Donside) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders) │
	Creation of the Territorial Army
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1921:	5th/7th Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders (TA) │ │			6th (Banff and Donside) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders (TA) │ │
1937:	5th/7th (Buchan, Mar and Mearns) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders (TA) │			│ │ │
1939:	5th (Bucham and Formartin) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders (TA) │ │		7th (Mar and Mearns) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders (TA) │ │	6th (Banffshire) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders (TA) │ │		9th (Donside) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders (TA) │ │
1940:	5th (Strathbogie, Garioch and Strathdon) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders (TA) │		│ │ │	│ │ │		│ │ │
1941:		5th/9th (Strathbogie, Garioch and Strathdon) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders	│ │ │	│ │ │		← merged with the 5th Bn
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1942:		116th Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps	│ │	│ │
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1944:		│ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │
1946:		disbanded	5th/7th (Buchan, Marn and Mearns) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders │	│ │ │ │
	Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947:		merged into 4th/7th Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders (TA)	5th/6th (Banff, Buchan and Donside) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders (TA) │ │
1961:			merged into 3rd Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders (TA)