Infantry Volunteers

Aberdeenshire - Kincardineshire - Banffshire

1860:	1st Aberdeenshire RVC 17th Aberdeenshire RVC(I) 18th Aberdeenshire RVC(I) 1st Aberdeenshire RVC becomes 2nd 17th Aberdeenshire RVC(I) becomes 5th 18th Aberdeenshire RVC(I) becomes 6th(II) 12th Aberdeenshire RVC(II) 13th Aberdeenshire RVC(II) 15th Aberdeenshire RVC 16th Aberdeenshire RVC │ │ │ │ │ │	21st Aberdeenshire RVC(I) 21st Aberdeenshire RVC(I) becomes 9th(II) 17th Aberdeenshire RVC(II) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	1st Kincardineshire RVC 2nd Kincardineshire RVC 3rd Kincardineshire RVC 4th Kincardineshire RVC 5th Kincardineshire RVC 6th Kincardineshire RVC │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	3rd Aberdeenshire RVC 4th Aberdeenshire RVC 19th Aberdeenshire RVC(I) 20th Aberdeenshire RVC(I) 22nd Aberdeenshire RVC(I) 23rd Aberdeenshire RVC(I) 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 │ all part of 1st Administrative Battalion of Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteers │		1st Banffshire RVC(I) 2nd Banffshire RVC(I) 3rd Banffshire RVC(I) 4th Banffshire RVC │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
1861:	all part of 2nd Administrative Battalion of Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteers │ │ │	20th Aberdeenshire RVC(II) │ │ │ │ │	7th Kincardineshire RVC │ all part of 1st Administrative Battalion of Kincardineshire Rifle Volunteers │	│ │ │ │ │ │	21st Aberdeenshire (Marquis of Huntly’s Highland) RVC(II) │ │ │ │	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) │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │	1st Banffshire RVC(I) disbanded 2nd Banffshire RVC(I) becomes 1st(II) 3rd Banffshire RVC(I) becomes 2nd(II) 3rd Banffshire RVC(II) │ │
1863:	12th Aberdeenshire RVC(II) disbanded │	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │	5th Banffshire RVC │
1864:	12th Aberdeenshire RVC(III) │	│ │	│ │	23rd Aberdeenshire RVC(II) │	│ │	│ │
1866:	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │	4th Banffshire RVC abdorbed by 3rd(II) │
1867:	18th Aberdeenshire RVC(II) │	24th Aberdeenshire RVC(I) │	│ │	19th Aberdeenshire RVC(II) │	│ │	6th Banffshire RVC │
1868:	│ │ │ │ │ │	25th Aberdeenshire RVC │ 3rd Administrative Battalion of Aberdeenshire (The Buchan) Rifle Volunteers │	│ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │	7th Banffshire RVC │ │ │ │ │
1869:	│ │	│ │	8th Kincardineshire RVC │	│ │	│ │	│ │
1870:	│ │	│ │	1st Kincardineshire RVC disbanded │	│ │	│ │	│ │
1871:	│ │	│ │	4th Kincardineshire RVC absorbed by 5th │	│ │		│ │
1872:	│ │	26th Aberdeenshire RVC │	│ │	│ │		│ │
1873:	│ │	│ │	3rd Kincardineshire RVC absorbed by 5th │	│ │		│ │
1875:	│ │ │	24th Aberdeenshire RVC(I) absorbed by 9th 24th Aberdeenshire RVC(II) │	│ │ │	│ │ │		│ │ │
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 │ │		│ │ │ │
	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 Higlanders │ │	3rd (The Buchan) Volunteer Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders │	5th (Deeside Highland) Volunteer Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders │	4th Volunteer Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders │ │		6th Volunteer Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders │ │
1893:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	4th (Donside Highland) Volunteer Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders │		│ │ │ │
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1900:	│ │ │	│ │ │	│ │ │	│ │ │		│ │ │
	Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908:	5th (Buchan and Formartin) Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders (TF)		7th (Deeside) Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders (TF)	6th (Banff and Donside) Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders (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 Higlanders (TA) │ │			6th (Banff and Donside) Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders (TA) │ │
1937:	5th/7th (Buchan, Mar and Mearns) Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders (TA) │			│ │ │
1939:	5th (Bucham and Formartin) Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders (TA) │ │		7th (Mar and Mearns) Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders (TA) │ │	6th (Banffshire) Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders (TA) │ │		9th (Donside) Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders (TA) │ │
1940:	5th (Strathbogie, Garioch and Strathdon) Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders (TA) │		│ │ │	│ │ │		│ │ │
1941:		5th/9th (Strathbogie, Garioch and Strathdon) Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders	│ │ │	│ │ │		← 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 Higlanders │	│ │ │ │
	Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947:		merged into 4th/7th Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders (TA)	5th/6th (Banff, Buchan and Donside) Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders (TA) │ │
1961:			merged into 3rd Battalion, The Gordon Higlanders (TA)