1st Argyll and Bute Artillery Volunteers
The 1st Argyll & Bute Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery formed in Scotland in 1860 in response to a French invasion threat. It 1908 it became the only Mountain Artillery unit in the Territorial Force, and saw action at Gallipoli and Salonika during World War I. Before World War II it became the first Territorial Anti-Tank unit. One of its successor units was captured at Saint-Valery-en-Caux during the Battle of France, but others saw action in the campaigns in North Africa and Sicily, and in North West Europe from D Day to VE Day, including Arnhem and the Rhine Crossing. It continued in the postwar Territorial Army until 1955.
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10th (Irish) Division10th (Lochgilphead) Argyllshire Artillery Volunteer Corps11th (Northern) Division11th (Tarbert) Argyllshire Artillery Volunteer Corps12th (Inveraray) Argyllshire Artillery Volunteer Corps13th (Highland) Light Brigade, Royal Artillery13th (Highland) Pack Brigade, Royal Artillery1st (Easdale) Argyllshire Artillery Volunteer Corps1st (Rothesay) Buteshire Artillery Volunteer Corps1st Administrative Brigade, Argyllshire Artillery Volunteer Corps1st Airborne Division (United Kingdom)1st Argyll and Bute Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)1st Armoured Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)1st Devonshire Artillery Volunteers1st Renfrew and Dumbarton Artillery Volunteers204 (Oban) Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery254th (West Highland) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery254th (West Highland) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery26th (Highland) Pack Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery26th Division (United Kingdom)27th Division (United Kingdom)28th Division (United Kingdom)29th Division (United Kingdom)29th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)2 (Oban) Air-Landing Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery2nd (Millport) Buteshire Artillery Volunteer Corps2nd (Tarbert) Argyllshire Artillery Volunteer Corps3rd (Oban) Argyllshire Artillery Volunteer Corps4th (West Tarbert) Argyllshire Artillery Volunteer Corps4th Highland (Mountain) Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery51st (Highland) Division51st (West Highland) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division54th (West Highland) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery56th (King's Own) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery5th (Ardgour) Argyllshire Artillery Volunteer Corps61st (West Highland) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery64th (2nd Highland) Division6th (Campbeltown) Argyllshire Artillery Volunteer Corps7th (Port Ellen) Argyllshire Artillery Volunteer Corps
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1st Argyll and Bute Artillery Volunteers
The 1st Argyll & Bute Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery formed in Scotland in 1860 in response to a French invasion threat. It 1908 it became the only Mountain Artillery unit in the Territorial Force, and saw action at Gallipoli and Salonika during World War I. Before World War II it became the first Territorial Anti-Tank unit. One of its successor units was captured at Saint-Valery-en-Caux during the Battle of France, but others saw action in the campaigns in North Africa and Sicily, and in North West Europe from D Day to VE Day, including Arnhem and the Rhine Crossing. It continued in the postwar Territorial Army until 1955.
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51st (West Highland) Anti-Tank Regiment
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