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1860.05.24 |
1st Administrative Brigade, Cornwall
Artillery Volunteers
formed to control all corps in the county: |
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- 1st Cornwall Artillery Volunteer Corps
at Padstow, raised 27 Sep. 1859
- 2nd Cornwall Artillery Volunteer Corps
at Looe, raised 17 Oct. 1859
- 3rd Cornwall Artillery Volunteer Corps
at Fowey, raised 17 Oct. 1859 and expanded to bty 25 Nov. 1859
- 4th Cornwall Artillery Volunteer Corps
at Charlestown, raised 30 Oct. 1859
- 5th Cornwall Artillery Volunteer Corps
at Par, raised 23 Dec. 1859
- 6th Cornwall Artillery Volunteer Corps
at Par Harbour, raised 4 Feb. 1860; disbanded by 1880
- 7th Cornwall Artillery Volunteer Corps at
Polruan, raised 27 Feb. 1860
- 8th Cornwall Artillery Volunteer Corps
at Hayle, raised 2 Apr. 1860
- 9th Cornwall Artillery Volunteer Corps
at Fowey Consols Mine, raised 2 Apr. 1860; disbanded Nov. 1863
- 10th Cornwall Artillery Volunteer Corps at
Buryan, raised 5 Nov. 1860; moved to Newlyn Oct. 1868; moved to
Penzance July 1877
- 11th Cornwall Artillery Volunteer Corps at
St. Ives, raised 8 Nov. 1860; disbanded June 1878
- 12th Cornwall Artillery Volunteer Corps
at Marazion, raised 3 Apr. 1861
- 13th Cornwall Artillery Volunteer Corps at
St. Just, raised 26 Sep. 1862
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1861.09.06 |
The Duke of Cornwall's Artillery Volunteers |
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1880.05.11 |
1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall's) Artillery
Volunteers |
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- No. 1 Battery at Padstow (former 1st
AVC)
- No. 2 Battery at Looe (former 2nd AVC)
- No. 3 Battery at Fooey (former 3rd
AVC)
- No. 4 Battery at Charlestown (former
4th AVC)
- No. 5 Battery at Par (former 5th AVC)
- No. 6 Battery at Polruan (half battery),
former 7th AVC
- No. 7 Battery at Hayle (former 8th
AVC)
- No. 8 Battery at Penzance (former 10th
AVC)
- No. 9 Battery at Marazion (former 12th
AVC)
- No. 10 Battery at St. Just (former
13th AVC)
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1882.04.01 |
assigned to Western Division
RA |
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1886.09.01 |
3rd Volunteer (Duke of Cornwall's) Brigade,
Western Division RA |
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1889.09.01 |
1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall's) Artillery
Volunteers
HQ at Falmouth (batteries unchanged) |
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18uu |
eleventh battery raised |
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1891.11 |
1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall's) Volunteer
Artillery |
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189u |
battery at Polruan disbanded;
new No. 6 Battery raised at Hayle;
batteries 7-10 renumbered 6-9; No. 10 Battery raised
a Falmouth and Truro; No. 11 Battery raised at Buryan
and Newbridge |
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1902.01.01 |
1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall's) RGA
(Volunteers)
divisional organisation abolished
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190u |
twelfth and thirteenth
batteries raised |
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1908.05.30 |
Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall's) RGA
reorganised in T.F. for Defended Ports with
HQ at Falmouth: |
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- 1st Heavy Battery at Padstow; redesignated
1918 as 134 (Cornwall) HB
- 2nd Heavy Battery at Penzance
- 3rd Company at Looe; absorbed Oct.
1918 in 1 (Cornwall) Fire Command
- 4th Company at Marazion; absorbed Oct.
1918 in 1 (Cornwall) Fire Command
- 5th Company at St. Ives; disbanded
by 1918
- 6th Company at Falmouth
- 7th Company at Truro
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1920.02.07 |
Cornwall Coast Brigade, RGA
(T.A.)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Falmouth (batteries
at Redruth and Falmouth) |
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1921 |
batteries renumbered: |
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- 164 Battery at Redruth; moved later
to Devonport
- 165 Battery at Falmouth; moved later
to Redruth
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1924.06.01 |
Cornwall Heavy Brigade, RA
(T.A.) |
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1932.10.01 |
164 (Cornwall) Battery,
Devonshire and Cornwall Heavy Brigade, RA
at Devonport (amalgamated with Devonshire Heavy
Brigade RA, less 165 Bty
which transferred as 165 (Cornwall) Bty, 56 AA Brigade) |
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1940.01.01 |
Cornwall Heavy Regiment, RA
(T.A.)
newly raised without predecessor Cornwall batteries |
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1940.07.14 |
523rd (Cornwall) Coast Regiment, RA
(T.A.) |
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1946.03.03 |
suspended animation (completed 27 Apr.
1946) |
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1947.01.01 |
409th (Cornwall) Coast Regiment, RA
(T.A.)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Falmouth |
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1956.10.31 |
409 (Cornwall) Independent
Field Squadron, RE |
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1967.04.01 |
B (Devon Fortress Engineers)
Squadron, The Devonshire
Territorials (Royal Devon Yeomanry/The 1st Rifle Volunteers)
Cornwall artillery lineage discontinued |
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