Great Britain (Volunteers)

Lancashire (Liverpool) - Isle of Man

The lineage of the 7^th Battalion, The King’s is on the page The King’s / The Manchester Regiment
The lineage of the 10^th Battalion, The King’s is on the page The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders / The Liverpool Scottish

	Formation of the Volunteer Force
1859:	1st Lancashire RVC raised │ │	13th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps │	5th Lancashire RVC raised 14th Lancashire RVC raised │
1860:	22nd Lancashire RVC raised 38th Lancashire RVC raised 45th Lancashire RVC raised 66th Lancashire RVC raised 69th Lancashire RVC raised │ all part of 1st Administrative Battalion of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	19th Lancashire RVC raised 39th Lancashire RVC raised 63rd Lancashire RVC raised 64th Lancashire RVC raised 68th Lancashire RVC raised 71st (Liverpool Highland) Lancashire RVC raised │ all part of 2nd Administrative Battalion of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers │	32nd Lancashire (Victoria Rifles) RVC raised 54th Lancashire RVC raised 73rd Lancashire RVC raised 74th Lancashire RVC raised │ 1862: 32nd Lancashire RVC absorbed by 5th 1862: 74th Lancashire RVC absorbed by 1st 1863: 73rd Lancashire RVC absorbed by 80th 1880: 54th Lancashire RVC absorbed by 13th		2nd Isle of Man Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
1861:	consolidated as 1st Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps │ absorbed 14th Lancashire RVC ← │	│ │ │ │ │ │	86th Lancashire RVC raised │ │ │ ← 14th Lancashire RVC absorbed by 1st │	79th Lancashire RVC raised │ 1862: 79th Lancashire RVC absorbed by 5th	80th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │
1862:	absorbed 74th Lancashire RVC ↙ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	consolidated as 5th Lancashire (The Liverpool Rifle Volunteer Brigade) Rifle Volunteer Corps │ absorbed 32nd Lancashire RVC ↙ absorbed 79th Lancashire RVC ↙ │	64th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │ │ │ │ │ │	80th Lancashire (Liverpool Press Guard) Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
1863:	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │	↘ absorbed 73rd Lancashire RVC │	│ │
1864:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	64th Lancashire (Liverpool Irish) Rifle Volunteer Corps │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │
	Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force
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1880:	│ │ │	absorbed 54th Lancashire RVC ↙ │ │	│ │ │	18th Lancashire (Liverpool Irish) Rifle Volunteer Corps	19th Lancashire (Liverpool Press Guard) Rifle Volunteer Corps	1st Isle of Man 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 King’s (Liverpool Regiment) │	volunteer battalion of The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) │	volunteer battalion of The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) │	volunteer battalion of The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) │	volunteer battalion of The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) │	volunteer battalion of The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) │
1888:	1st Volunteer Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)	3rd Volunteer Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)	2nd Volunteer Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)	5th (Irish) Volunteer Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)	6th Volunteer Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)	7th (Isle of Man) Volunteer Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)
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	Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908:	5th Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) (TF)	disbanded	6th (Rifle) Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) (TF)	8th (Irish) Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) (TF)	9th Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) (TF)	│ │ │
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1914/ 1918:	1/5th Battalion, 2/5th Battalion, 3/5th Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) │		1/6th (Rifle) Battalion, 2/6th (Rifle) Battalion, 3/6th (Rifle) Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) │	1/8th (Irish) Battalion, 2/8th (Irish) Battalion, 3/8th (Irish) Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) │	1/9th Battalion, 2/9th Battalion, 3/9th Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) │	│ │ │ │ │ │
	Creation of the Territorial Army
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1921:	5th Battalion, The King’s Regiment (Liverpool) (TA)		6th (Rifle) Battalion, The King’s Regiment (Liverpool) (TA)	disbanded	merged into 55th (West Lancashire) Division,	disbanded
	│		│		Royal Engineers (TA)
1936:	│ │ │ │		38th (The King’s Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers (TA) │
1937:	│		│
1939:	│ │ │	9th Battalion, The King’s Regiment (Liverpool) (TA)	│ │ │	8th (Irish) Battalion, The King’s Regiment (Liverpool) (TA)
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1940:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	38th (The King’s Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery │	│ │ │ │
1945:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	635th Regiment, Royal Artillery (The King’s Regiment) │	│ │ │ │
1945:	│ │	│ │	suspended animation │	│ │
	Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947:	│ │ │ │		573rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (The King’s Regiment) (TA) │	626th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery (Liverpool Irish) (TA) │
1951:	│ │ │ │ │		573rd (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (The King’s Regiment) (TA) │	│ │ │ │ │
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1955:	│ │ │ │ │ │		Q (King’s) Battery, 287th (1st West Lancashire) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA)	Q (Liverpool Irish) Battery, 470th (3rd West Lancashire) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA)
1958:	trandferred to The King’s Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool) │
	Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
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1967:	disbanded and formed B (King’s) Company, The Lancastrian Volunteers