Great Britain (Volunteers)

Sussex - Cinque Ports

	Formation of the Volunteer Force
1859:			1st Cinque Ports RVC raised 2nd Cinque Ports RVC(Ⅰ) raised │		1st Sussex RVC raised 2nd Sussex RVC raised │
1860:	6th Sussex RVC raised 7th Sussex RVC raised 13th Sussex RVC raised 14th Sussex RVC raised 18th Sussex RVC raised │ all part of 2nd Administrative Battalion of Sussex Rifle Volunteers │ │ │ │	8th Sussex RVC raised 9th Sussex RVC raised 10th Sussex RVC raised 11th Sussex RVC raised 12th Sussex RVC raised 15th Sussex RVC raised │ all part of 1st Administrative Battalion of Sussex Rifle Volunteers │ │ │	2nd Kent RVC raised 2nd Cinque Ports RVC(Ⅰ) becomes 3rd 2nd Kent RVC becomes 2nd(Ⅱ) 4th Cinque Ports RVC raised 5th Cinque Ports RVC raised 6th Cinque Ports RVC raised 7th Cinque Ports RVC raised 8th Cinque Ports RVC raised │ all part of 1st Administrative Battalion of Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers │		4th Sussex RVC raised 5th Sussex RVC raised 16th Sussex RVC raised 19th Sussex RVC raised │ all part of 3rd Administrative Battalion of Sussex Rifle Volunteers │ │ │ │ │
1861:	8th Sussex RVC ← │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	← 8th Sussex RVC to │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	17th Sussex RVC raised │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 16th Sussex RVC ← 19th Sussex RVC ← │	2nd Cinque Ports RVC(Ⅱ) 4th Cinque Ports RVC 5th Cinque Ports RVC 6th Cinque Ports RVC 7th Cinque Ports RVC 8th Cinque Ports RVC │ all part of 2nd Administrative Battalion of Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ← 16th Sussex RVC to ← 19th Sussex RVC to │
	│ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │	3rd Cinque Ports RVC │ part of 5th Administrative Battalion of Kent Rifle Volunteers	│ │ │ │ │
1863:	│ │ 5th Sussex RVC ← 14th Sussex RVC disbanded │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │	2nd Sussex RVC ← 4th Sussex RVC ← │ │ │ │ │		← 2nd Sussex RVC to ← 4th Sussex RVC to ← 5th Sussex RVC to │ 1st Sussex Rifle Volunteer Corps │
1865:	│ │	15th Sussex RVC disbanded │	9th Cinque Ports RVC raised │		│ │
1869:	│ │	│ │	19th Sussex RVC disbanded │		│ │
1870:	2nd Sussex RVC ← │ │	│ │ │	← 2nd Sussex RVC to 20th Sussex RVC raised │		│ │ │
1874:		2nd Sussex RVC added 5th Sussex RVC added 6th Sussex RVC added 7th Sussex RVC added 8th Sussex RVC added 13th Sussex RVC added 18th Sussex RVC added │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │		│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
1876:		8th Sussex RVC disbanded │ │ │ │	9th Cinque Ports RVC absorbed by 1st 16th Sussex RVC absorbed by 1st 17th Sussex RVC absorbed by 1st 20th Sussex RVC absorbed by 1st │		│ │ │ │ │
	Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force
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1880:		consolidated as 2nd Sussex Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │	consolidated as 1st Cinque Ports (Cinque Ports and Sussex) Rifle Volunteer Corps │		│ │ │ │ │
	The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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1881:		volunteer battalion of The Royal Sussex Regiment │	volunteer battalion of The Royal Sussex Regiment │		volunteer battalion of The Royal Sussex Regiment │
1887:		2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment	│ │		1st Volunteer Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment
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1891:		│ │ │ │	1st Cinque Ports (Cinque Ports and Sussex) Volunteer Rifle Corps │		│ │ │ │
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	Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908:		4th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment (TF)	5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment (TF)		6th (Cyclist) Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment (TF)
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1914/ 1918:		1/4th Battalion, 2/4th Battalion, 3/4th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment │	1/5th (Cinque Posrts) Battalion, 2/5th (Cinque Posrts) Battalion, 3/5th (Cinque Posrts) Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment │		1/6th (Cyclist) Battalion, 2/6th (Cyclist) Battalion, 3/6th (Cyclist) Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment │
1919:		│ │	│ │		disbanded
	Creation of the Territorial Army
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1921:		4th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment (TA) │	5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment (TA) │
1939:	6th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment (TA) │	│ │ │	│ │ │	7th (Cinque Ports) Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment (TA) │
1942:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	109th Light Ant-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Royal Sussex Regiment) │
1943:	│ │ │	4th/5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment │		│ │ │
1946:	│ │	│ │		suspended animation │
	Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947:		4th/5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment(TA) │		disbanded
1966:		transferred to The Queen’s Regiment │
	Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
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1967:		disbanded and formed elements of C Company (Cinque Ports), 5th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen’s Regiment and A Company, 9th (Territorial) Battalion, The Queen’s Regiment (Royal Sussex)