The Dorset Rifle Volunteers, (also known as the Dorsetshire Volunteer Rifle Battalion), was a unit of the Volunteer Force of the British Army located...

The Rifle Volunteers was a regiment of the British Territorial Army. In 2007, it was re-designated as 6th Battalion, The Rifles. The Rifle Volunteers were...

Rifles. The Territorials in Dorset trace their origins to the 1st Administrative Battalion, Dorsetshire Rifle Volunteers formed at Dorchester. Its first...

and Dorset Light Infantry', and in 2007 The Rifle Volunteers became 6th Battalion, The Rifles. The uniform of the Exeter & South Devon Volunteers was...

Battalion, Wessex Volunteers upon formation of the 2nd Battalion, before renaming as the 1st Battalion, Wessex Regiment (Rifle Volunteers) the next year;...

in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. 7th Battalion – redesignation of the Royal Rifle Volunteers, minus the Princess...

July 1999, the Royal Rifle Volunteers (RRV) was formed through the amalgamation of the following battalions: 6th/7th (Volunteer) Battalion, Princess of...

The 1st Durham Rifle Volunteers, later the 5th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry (5th DLI), was a part-time unit of the British Army from 1860 to the 1950s...

Retrieved 12 March 2021. "Rifle Volunteers - British Army units from 1945 on". Retrieved 12 April 2021. "Royal Rifle Volunteers - British Army units from...

(Modbury) Devonshire Mounted Rifle Volunteers (MRV), raised on 20 April 1860; redesignated 3rd Devonshire Light Horse Volunteers 1865; disbanded February...

(Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot Dorset Militia at Dorchester 1st Administrative Battalion, Dorsetshire Rifle Volunteers, at Dorchester The militia now...

Society for Army Historical Research, 1936 Ray Westlake. Tracing the Rifle Volunteers: A Guide for Military and Family Historians, Casemate Publishers, 2010...

The 2nd Sussex Rifle Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army first raised from the county of Sussex in 1859. It later became the 4th Battalion...

The 1st Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army first raised from the Cinque Ports of Kent and Sussex in 1859. It later...

use as the headquarters of the Dorsetshire Rifle Volunteers. This unit evolved to become the 1st Volunteer Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment in 1887...

Devonshire) Regiment of Foot. The DCLI also incorporated the militia and rifle volunteers of Cornwall. In 1959 the regiment merged with the Somerset Light Infantry...

of Monmouth Rifle Volunteers at Newport 2nd Administrative Battalion of Monmouth Rifle Volunteers at Pontypool 2nd Monmouth Rifle Volunteers at Pontypool...

year. When the Volunteers were consolidated in 1880, the Dorsetshire units became part of the 1st Hants & Dorset Artillery Volunteers: No 15 Company at...

The 1st Isle of Wight Rifle Volunteers, later the 8th (Isle of Wight, 'Princess Beatrice's Own') Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, but known informally as...

Antrim Royal Rifle Regiment of Militia. On 16 March 1860, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the 2nd (South Middlesex) Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC). He...

The Queen's Edinburgh Rifles was a brigade of Rifle Volunteers raised in the county of city of Edinburgh in 1859. It later formed two battalions of the...

Camp Canada (Mechanised Infantry (Wheeled)) 4th (Volunteer) Battalion (1st Rifle Volunteers), The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (V), HQ at Wyvern Barracks, Exeter...

The 4th (Glasgow, 1st Northern) Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps was a Scottish Volunteer unit of the British Army. Originally raised in Glasgow in 1859...

Brigade: Gloucestershire Regiment, Royal Hampshire Regiment, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment. Lancastrian Brigade: The Loyal...

as part of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, preceded the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (BVRC), raised in 1894. Today, the Royal Bermuda Regiment, an...

156-170. Date accessed: 17 April 2013. Ray Westlake, Tracing the Rifle Volunteers, Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84884-211-3, p. 113. Army...

Jackets (43rd and 52nd) 2nd Green Jackets, the King's Royal Rifle Corps 3rd Green Jackets, the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own). There were also two Territorial...

1971. On 1 July 1999 it amalgamated to form two companies of the new Rifle Volunteers. The 7th Battalion was formed in Durham and Yorkshire on 1 April 1975...

riots of April 1801. Service in the Volunteers conferred immunity from conscription into the Militia. Volunteers also received pay while on service: a...

Chesil Beach (also known as Chesil Bank) in Dorset, England is one of three major shingle beach structures in Britain. Its name is derived from the Old...