Great Britain (Volunteers)

Lincolnshire

	Formation of the Volunteer Force
1859:	1st Lincolnshire RVC raised 2nd Lincolnshire RVC raised │
1860:	6th Lincolnshire RVC raised 7th Lincolnshire RVC raised 9th Lincolnshire RVC raised 11th Lincolnshire RVC raised 12th Lincolnshire RVC raised 19th Lincolnshire RVC raised 20th Lincolnshire RVC raised │ all part of 1st Administrative Battalion of Lincolnshire Rifle Volunteers │	3rd Lincolnshire RVC raised 5th Lincolnshire RVC raised 8th Lincolnshire RVC raised 15th Lincolnshire RVC raised 18th Lincolnshire RVC raised │ all part of 2nd Administrative Battalion of Lincolnshire Rifle Volunteers │ │ │	4th Lincolnshire RVC raised 13th Lincolnshire RVC raised 14th Lincolnshire RVC raised 16th Lincolnshire RVC raised 17th Lincolnshire RVC raised │ all part of 3rd Administrative Battalion of Lincolnshire Rifle Volunteers │ │ │
1861:	│ │	│ │	14th Lincolnshire RVC disbanded │
1862:	│ │ │ │ │	4th Lincolnshire RVC added 13th Lincolnshire RVC added 16th Lincolnshire RVC added 17th Lincolnshire RVC added │
1871:	│ │	16th Lincolnshire RVC disbanded │
1873:	│ │	15th Lincolnshire RVC disbanded │
	Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force
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1880:	consolidated as 1st Lincolnshire Rifle Volunteer Corps │	consolidated as 3rd Lincolnshire Rifle Volunteer Corps │
1880:	│ │ │	2nd Lincolnshire Rifle Volunteer Corps │
	The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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1881:	volunteer battalion of The Lincolnshire Regiment │	volunteer battalion of The Lincolnshire Regiment │
1883:	1st Volunteer Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment	2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
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1893:	│	│
1900:	│ │	│ │	3rd Volunteer Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
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	Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908:	4th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment (TF)		5th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment (TF)
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1914/ 1918:	1/4th Battalion, 2/4th Battalion, 3/4th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment │		1/5th Battalion, 2/5th Battalion, 3/5th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment │
	Creation of the Territorial Army
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1921:	4th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment (TA)		5th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment (TA)
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1936:	│ │ │ │		46th (Lincolnshire Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers │
1939:	│ │ │ │	6th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment (TA) │ │	│ │ │ │
1940:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	46th (Lincolnshire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery │
1944:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	46th Garrison Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lincolnshire Regiment) │
1945:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	606th Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lincolnshire Regiment) │
1946:	│ │	│ │	suspended animation │
	Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947:	4th Battalion, The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (TA)	6th Battalion, The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (TA)	581st (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (5th Bn, The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment) (TA)
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1950:	4th/6th Battalion, The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (TA) │		│ │ │
1955:	│ │ │ │ │ │		R (5th Bn, Royal Lincolnshire Regiment) Battery, 440th (Humber) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA)
1960:	transferred to 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester’s Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamtonshire) │
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 2nd (Duchess of Gloucester’s Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) Company, 5th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment and The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (Territorials)