Great Britain (Volunteers)

South Lancashire

	Formation of the Volunteer Force
1859:	9th Lancashire RVC raised │
1860:		49th Lancashire RVC raised │ │	48th Lancashire RVC raised │ │	47st Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps │
1865:		all part of 9th Administrative Battalion of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │
	Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force
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1880:	consolidated as 9th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps │			│ │ │ │
1880:	│ │ │			21st Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps │
	The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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1881:	volunteer battalion of The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) │			volunteer battalion of The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) │
1886:	1st Volunteer Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)			2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
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	Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908:	4th Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) (TF)			5th Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) (TF)
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1914/ 1918:	1/4th Battalion, 2/4th Battalion, 3/4th Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) │			1/5th Battalion, 2/5th Battalion, 3/5th Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) │
	Creation of the Territorial Army
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1921:	4th Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire) (TA)			5th Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire) (TA)
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1938:	4th Battalion, The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) (TA) │ │			5th Battalion, The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) (61st Searchlight Regiment) (TA) │
1939:	1/4th Battalion, The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) (TA) │		2/4th Battalion, The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) (TA) │	│ │ │ │ │
1940:	│ │ │ │ │		│ │ │ │ │	61st (5th Bn, The South Lancashire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery │
1943:	│ │ │		13th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment │	│ │ │
1944:	│ │ │ │		│ │ │ │	61th Garrison Regiment, Royal Artillery (The South Lancashire Regiment) │
1945:	│ │ │ │		2/4th Battalion, The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) │	612th Regiment, Royal Artillery (The South Lancashire Regiment) │
1945:	│ │		│ │	suspended animation │
	Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947:	4th Battalion, The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) (TA) │		644th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (The South Lancashire Regiment) (TA) │	596th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (The South Lancashire Regiment) (TA) │
1949:	│ │ │ │ │ │		644th Light Anti-Aircraft/ Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery (The South Lancashire Regiment) (TA) │	│ │ │ │ │ │
1953:	│ │ │ │ │		644th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (The South Lancashire Regiment) (TA) │	│ │ │ │ │
1955:	│ │		R Battery,	P Battery, Q Battery,
	│ │ │ │		436th (South Lancashire Artillery) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1958:	tranferred to The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) │		│ │ │ │
1961:	│ │ │ │		436th (South Lancashire Artillery) Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1964:	│ │ │ │		436th (South Lancashire Artillery) Light Air Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
	Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
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1967:	disbanded and formed elements of		disbanded and formed
	HQ Company (Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers)),	R Battery (South Lancashire Regiment),	P Battery (South Lancashire Artillery), Q Battery (South Lancashire Artillery),	C (South Lancashire Artillery) Troop, 208th (3rd West Lancashire) LAD Battery,
	The Lancastrian Volunteers	The South Lancashire Territorials (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) Royal Artillery │		103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Light Air Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery
1969:		reduced to cadre │
1975:		disbanded