Great Britain (Volunteers)

Renfrewshire - Argyllshire - Dumbartonshire - Buteshire

	Formation of the Volunteer Force
1860:	1st Renfrewshire AVC raised 2nd Renfrewshire AVC raised 3rd Renfrewshire AVC raised │ │	1st Dumbartonshire AVC raised 2nd Dumbartonshire AVC raised 3rd Dumbartonshire AVC raised │ │			1st Argyllshire AVC raised 2nd Argyllshire AVC raised 3rd Argyllshire AVC raised 4th Argyllshire AVC raised │
1861:	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │			5th Argyllshire AVC raised 6th Argyllshire AVC raised 7th Argyllshire AVC raised 8th Argyllshire AVC raised │ all part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Argyllshire Artillery Volunteers │
1862:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │			9th Argyllshire AVC raised 10th Argyllshire AVC raised 2nd Argyllshire AVC disbanded │	1st Buteshire AVC raised │ │ │
1863:	all part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Renfrewshire Artillery Volunteers │				1st Buteshire AVC added │ │ │
1864:	2nd Renfrewshire AVC absorbed by 1st 3rd Renfrewshire AVC absorbed by 1st │				│ │ │
1865:	│ │				5th Argyllshire AVC disbanded │
1866:	│ │				11th Argyllshire AVC raised │
1867:	│ │ │				12th Argyllshire AVC raised 2th Buteshire AVC raised │
1872:	2nd Dumbartonshire AVC disbanded │				│ │
1874:	│ │				4th Argyllshire AVC disbanded │
	Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force
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1880:	consolidated as 1st Renfrewshire (Renfrew and Dumbarton) Artillery Volunteer Corps │				consolidated as 1st Argyllshire (Argyll and Bute) Artillery Volunteer Corps │ │
1880:	1st Renfrew and Dumbarton Artillery Volunteer Corps │				1st Argyll and Bute Artillery Volunteer Corps │
	Creation of the Divisons, Royal Artillery
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1882:	volunteer brigade of Scottish Division │				volunteer brigade of Scottish Division │
	Regrouping into three large divisions
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1889:	part of Southern Division │				part of Southern Division │
1891:	1st Renfrew and Dumbarton Volunteer Artillery Corps │				1st Argyll and Bute Volunteer Artillery Corps │
	Transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery
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1899:	│ │				│ │
	Division system abolished
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1902:	1st Renfrew and Dumbarton Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)				1st Argyll and Bute Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)
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	Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908:	two companies → 1st Renfrewshire (Howitzer) Battery, 2nd Renfrewshire (Howitzer) Battery, III Highland Ammunition Column, III Highland (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF)		→ ← Forth and Clyde Royal Garrison Artillery (TF)		← one company     Argyllshire Battery,     Ross and Cromarty Battery, ← Bute Battery, IV Highland Ammunition Column, IV Highland Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TF)
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1909:	│ │ │		│ │ │		IV Highland (Mountain) Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │
1910:	│ │ │		Clyde Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │	Forth Royal Garrison Artillery (TF)	│ │ │
1914:	1/III Highland (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │	2/III Highland (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │	│ │ │		│ │ │
1916:	CCLVIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │	CCCXXIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │	│ │ │		│ │ │
1916:	│ │	broken up	│ │		│ │
1919:	suspended animation │		suspended animation │		suspended animation │
1920:	3rd Highland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │		Clyde Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │		1st Highland Mountain Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TF) │
	Creation of the Territorial Army
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1921:	77th (Highland) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TA)		Clyde Coast Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TA)		│ │
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1922:	│ │ │		│ │ │		26th (Highland) Pack Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery (TA) │
1924:	77th (Highland) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │		Clyde Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │		13th (Highland) Pack Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1927:	│ │ │		│ │ │		13th (Highland) Light Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1936:	│ │ │ │		│ │ │ │		54th (West Highland) Army Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1938:	77th (Highland) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │ │		Clyde Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │ │		54th (West Highland) Army Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1938:	│ │ │ │		│ │ │ │		51st (West Highland) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1939:	│ │ │	128st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	│ │ │		│ │ │	61st Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1940:	│ │ │	│ │ │	538th (Clyde) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery │		204 (Oban) Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery │	│ │ │
1942:	│ │ │ │	128st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Highland) (TA) │	│ │ │ │		2 (Oban) Air-Landing Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery │ │	61st Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery (West Highland) │
1945:	│ │	│ │	│ │		suspended animation │	│ │
1946:	suspended animation │	suspended animation │	suspended animation │		│ │	suspended animation │
	Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947:	277th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Highland) (TA) │	328th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (Highland) (TA) │	416th (Mixed) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (Clyde) (TA) │	417th (Mixed) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (Dumbartonshire) (TA) │	254th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery (West Highland) (TA) │	disbanded
1948:	│ │ │ │ │	328th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lowland) (TA) │ │	│ │ │ │ │	417th (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Dumbartonshire) (TA) │	│ │ │ │ │
1950:	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	merged into 279th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lowland) (TA) one battery forms 888th Locating Battery, Royal Artillery (TA) │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	254th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (West Highland) (TA) │ │ │ │ │ │
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1954:	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │		254th (West Highland) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1955:	│ │	│ │	│ │	←
1956:	│ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │	R (Clyde) Battery, 357th (Lowland) Light Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA)
	│ │ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │ │	from R (Clyde) Battery, 357th (Lowland) Light Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	from 402nd Light Regiment, Royal Artillery (5th/6th Bn, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) (TA) │
1961:	277th (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1961:	277th (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1964:	277th (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
	Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
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1967:	disbanded and formed R (Paisley, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) Battery, The Lowland Regiment Royal Artillery (Territorials)

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