Great Britain (Volunteers)

East Lancashire - Cumberland

	Formation of the Volunteer Force
1860:	1st Cumberland AVC raised 2nd Cumberland AVC raised 3rd Cumberland AVC raised 4th Cumberland AVC raised 5th Cumberland AVC raised │ all part of 1st Administrative Brigade of Cumberland Artillery Volunteers │		5th Lancashire AVC raised 22nd Lancashire AVC raised 23rd Lancashire AVC raised │ all part of 3rd Administrative Brigade of Lancashire Artillery Volunteers │ │ │	18th Lancashire AVC raised │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
1861:	│ │ │		18th Lancashire AVC added │ │
1865:	│ │		26th Lancashire AVC raised │
1866:	4th Cumberland AVC disbanded │		│ │
1869:	│ │		22nd Lancashire AVC absorbed by 5th │
1876:	5th Cumberland AVC disbanded │		│ │
	Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force
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1880:	consolidated as 1st Cumberland Artillery Volunteer Corps │		consolidated as 5th Lancashire Artillery Volunteer Corps │
1880:	│ │ │		3rd Lancashire Artillery Volunteer Corps │
	Creation of the Divisons, Royal Artillery
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1882:	volunteer brigade of Northern Division │		volunteer brigade of Lancashire Division │
1889:	│ │ │		│ │ │		9th Lancashire Artillery Volunteer Corps │
	Regrouping into three large divisions
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1889:	part of Eastern Division │		part of Southern Division │		part of Southern Division │
1891:	1st Cumberland Volunteer Artillery Corps │		3rd Lancashire Volunteer Artillery Corps │		9th Lancashire Volunteer Artillery Corps │
	Transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery
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1899:	│ │		│ │		│ │
	Division system abolished
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1902:	1st Cumberland Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)		3rd Lancashire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)		9th Lancashire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)
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	Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908:	1st Cumberland (Howitzer) Battery, 2nd Cumberland (Howitzer) Battery, IV East Lancashire Ammunition Column, IV East Lancashire (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF)		5th Lancashire Battery, 6th Lancashire Battery, 7th Lancashire Battery, I East Lancashire Ammunition Column, I East Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF)		18th Lancashire Battery, 19th Lancashire Battery, 20th Lancashire Battery, III East Lancashire Ammunition Column, III East Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF)
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1909:	IV East Lancashire (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (The Cumberland Artillery) (TF) │		│ │ │ │ │		III East Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (The Bolton Artillery) (TF) │
1914:	1/IV East Lancashire (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (The Cumberland Artillery) (TF) │	2/IV East Lancashire (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (The Cumberland Artillery) (TF) │	1/I East Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │ │	2/I East Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │ │	1/III East Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (The Bolton Artillery) (TF) │	2/III East Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (The Bolton Artillery) (TF) │
1916:	CCXIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCCXXXIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCX Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCCXXX Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCXI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │	CCCXXXI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery │
1916:	broken up	broken up	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │
1917:			│ │	│ │	│ │	broken up
1919:	│ │		suspended animation │	disbanded	suspended animation │
1920:			1st East Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │ │		3rd East Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF) │ │
	Creation of the Territorial Army
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1921:			51st (East Lancashire) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TA)		53rd (East Lancashire) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TA)
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1922:			51st (East Lancashire and Cumberland) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TA) │		53rd (Bolton) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TA) │ │
1923:		Cumberland batteries merged into 51st (Westmoreland and Cumberland) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TA)	93rd (East Lancashire) Army Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TA) │ │		│ │ │ │ │
1924:			93rd (East Lancashire) Army Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │		53rd (Bolton) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1938:			93rd (East Lancashire) Army Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │		53rd (Bolton) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1938:			52nd (East Lancashire) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │		│ │ │ │
1939:			│ │ │	56th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	│ │ │	111th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1942:			│ │ │ │	56th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (East Lancashire) │	│ │ │ │	111th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Bolton) │
1945:			│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	53rd (Field) Holding Regiment, Royal Artillery (Bolton) │	│ │ │ │
1945:			suspended animation │	suspended animation │	suspended animation │	suspended animation │
	Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947:			293rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (East Lancashire) (TA) │	556th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (East Lancashire) (TA) │	253rd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Bolton) (TA) │	disbanded
1953:			│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	253rd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (The Bolton Artillery) (TA) │
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1955:			Q (Burnley) Battery, 380th Light Regiment, Royal Artillery	P (Church) Battery, 380th Light Regiment, Royal Artillery	│ │ │ │
					│ │ │ │ │ │	from Q (Salford) Battery, 314th Heavy Anti-Airctaft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
1961:					│ │
					Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
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1967:					disbanded and formed part of 209 (The Manchester Artillery) Battery, 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Light Air Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery and D Company (The Bolton Artillery), 4th (Territorial) Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment

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