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corps would be deemed lawfully formed. Existing corps were to continue under the new Act, although the power was given to the Crown to disband any corps. The constitution of a permanent staff consisting of an adjutant and serjeant instructors was permitted for each corps. The grouping of two or more corps into administrative regiments was recognised, and a permanent staff could be provided for the grouping. However the individual corps were to continue to exist. As in the earlier legislation, a volunteer could resign with fourteen days notice, with the addition that if a commanding officer refused to remove a volunteer from the roll of the corps, then he could appeal to two justices of the peace of the county. An annual inspection by an officer of the regular army was instituted, and efficiency standards were to be set by
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sitting, or declared in council and notified by proclamation if parliament is not sitting.)" As well as being entitled to pay and billets, relief was also to be given to the wives and families of volunteers. A bounty of one guinea was to be paid to volunteers on release from actual military service, such release being notified in order by writing by the lord-lieutenant. If disabled on service, officers and volunteers were to receive a pension.
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Troop shortages and patriotic zest during the imperial crises and expansion of the
British Empire in the second half of the 19th century prompted the creation of other volunteer and yeomanry units, such as the Volunteer Force, with a far less distinct role, as well as the permanent embodiment of the
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was re-organised as the
Special Reserve, which provided a body of trained men available for drafting to regular battalions as required during wartime). The total cost of the TF was to be met in future by central government. In addition to the introduction of terms of service for volunteers, most of
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Part V dealt with the process of acquiring land for shooting ranges. Apart from the corps taking ownership of the land, a municipal corporation or private company could grant a licence to the volunteers to use their land for the purpose. Justices of the peace were given the power to close rights of
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The commission found that many of the drill instructors employed by the volunteer corps were of poor quality, and recommended the establishment of school of drill instructors. They also suggested that wherever possible volunteers should be united with troops of the line for exercise and instruction
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The large number of small independent corps proved difficult to administer, and, by 1861, most had been formed into battalion-sized units, either by "consolidation": increasing an existing corps to battalion size (usually in large urban areas), or by forming administrative battalions or brigades by
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Part II of the Act dealt with "Actual
Military Service". The terms for calling out of the force were altered: this would now happen in "the case of actual or apprehended invasion of any part of the United Kingdom (the occasion being first communicated to both Houses of Parliament if parliament is
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The costs of setting up the volunteer corps had largely been met by public subscription and assistance from honorary members. However the uniforms and equipment were reaching the end of their lives, and the cost of replacement would have to be met by the volunteers themselves, which was likely to
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Part I of the Act dealt with the organisation of the
Volunteer Force. It became lawful for "Her Majesty to accept the services of persons desiring to be formed under the Act into a Volunteer Corps, and offering their services to Her Majesty through the Lieutenant of a County". On acceptance, the
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Corps that received the grant were to be entitled to spend it on headquarters, drill grounds and halls, transport, maintenance of arms, uniforms and accoutrements. Where the money was to be spent on uniforms, the material used was to be of sealed pattern, and the lord-lieutenant could compel all
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In order to rectify this problem the commission proposed a government grant of 20 shillings per man (30 shillings in the case of artillery), but only on production of a certificate that he had satisfactorily attended a prescribed number of drills in the previous twelve months, had gone through a
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Originally corps were to consist of approximately 100 all ranks under the command of a captain, with some localities having subdivisions of thirty men under a lieutenant. The purpose of the rifle corps was to harass the invading enemy's flanks, while artillery corps were to man coastal guns and
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of 1881 which nominated rifle volunteer corps as volunteer battalions of the new "county" infantry regiments, which also consisted of regular and militia battalions within a defined regimental district. Over the next few years many of the rifle volunteer corps adopted the "volunteer battalion"
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By 1907, when its civilian administration teetered on the brink of insolvency, the
Volunteer Force had become indispensable to British defence planning, as well as an enabler of the Regular Army's drawing its own forces away from home defence stations. Consequently, the government passed the
257:, and rifle clubs were encouraged as the backbone against which the Volunteer force might be re-raised. The Militia and Volunteer Force were both re-organised in the 1850s. These forces were originally local-service, embodied during wartime or emergency, and placed under the control of
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that, with half of the
British Army dispositioned around the Empire on garrison duty, it had insufficient forces available to quickly compose and despatch an effective expeditionary force to a new area of conflict, unless it was to reduce the British Isles' own defences. During the
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in
England, Wales and Scotland, authorising the formation of volunteer rifle corps (VRC, a.k.a. corps of rifle volunteers and rifle volunteer corps), and of artillery corps in defended coastal towns. Volunteer corps were to be raised under the provisions of the
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862:, as were regulations for governing the Force. The lord-lieutenant of a county, or the commanding officer of a corps or administrative regiment was empowered to appoint a court of inquiry into any corps, officer, non-commissioned officer or volunteer.
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course of musketry or gunnery instruction, and was present at the annual inspection by a general officer. Grants were not to be made where, on inspection, the volunteer was clearly inefficient, or where his rifle had not been properly maintained.
504:, formed in 1803) who became the 1st Middlesex Rifle Volunteers. An order of precedence was established for ninety-two other counties, depending upon the date of establishment of the first corps in the county.
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compared with the linear tactics of the standing army. Many units initially favoured green and grey (colours until then used by
British and German rifle units in the army) rifleman uniforms as opposed to the
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The yeomanry, a mounted force drawn from the upper classes, was created at the peak of the fear of French invasion and used extensively in support of the civil authority to put down riots and disturbances.
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the grouping of smaller corps (in rural areas). An official book of drill and rifle instructions for the Corps of Rifle
Volunteers and volunteer regulations were published in 1859 and 1861 respectively.
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were separate counties, with the
Governor of the Isle of Wight, the Constable of the Tower of London and the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports commissioning officers in place of the lord-lieutenant. The
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The force was liable to be called out "in case of actual invasion, or of appearance of an enemy in force on the coast, or in case of rebellion arising in either of these emergencies."
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Initially, there were attempts at class distinction with the middle class seeing the formation of rifle units as a contrast with the strict class divide between the officers of the
189:, stores and supply departments, all of which, with barracks and other departments, were absorbed into the British Army when the Board of Ordnance was abolished in 1855). and the
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designation and the uniform of their parent regiment. This was far from universal, however, with some corps retaining their original names and distinctive dress until 1908.
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Members were not permitted to quit the force during actual military service, and at other times had to give fourteen days notice before being permitted to leave the corps.
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was such that, even without sending a third of the army to another Crimea, Britain's military defences had already been stretched invitingly thin. On 29 April 1859
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the units lost their unique identities, becoming numbered territorial battalions of the local army regiment, albeit with distinctive badges or dress distinctions.
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stating "Neither Standards nor Colours are to be carried by Corps on parade, as the Volunteer Force is composed of Arms to which their use is not appropriate".
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was appointed "to inquire into the condition of the volunteer force in Great Britain and into the probability of its continuance at its existing strength".
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The number of officers and private men in each county and corps was to be settled by the War Office, based on the lord-lieutenant's recommendation.
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The members of the corps were to provide their own arms and equipment, and were to defray all costs except when assembled for actual service.
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of the infantry and engineers of the army and militia. In turn, the army was glad not to have amateur volunteers wear the scarlet of the
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for port defence. Stretcher-bearers attached to the rifle corps subsequently formed volunteer medical detachments affiliated to the
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removed the Lord-Lieutenant as head of the county reserve forces and they were increasingly integrated with the British Army.
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An Act to declare the Effect of the Provisions of the Volunteer Act, 1863, with respect to Rules for Volunteer Corps.
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The Act concluded by defining the counties to which the corps were to belong: for the purposes of the Act the
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continued to serve as the only remaining unit of the Volunteer Force until disbandment in 1922. (1868–1922)
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forts. Although not mentioned in the circular letter, engineer corps were also formed, principally to place
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According to the report, as of 1 April 1862, the Volunteer Force had a strength of 162,681 consisting of:
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From 1860 Cadet Corps were also formed, consisting of school-age boys, which were the forerunners of the
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in 1859. Originally highly autonomous, the units of volunteers became increasingly integrated with the
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often made and presented by the women of the community. These were unauthorised, however, with the
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An act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to the Volunteer Force in Great Britain.
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during the early 1850s became the two senior rifle corps of the new force. These were the
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Their report made a number of recommendations and observations on funding and training:
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Part III dealt with discipline and part IV with the rules and property of the corps.
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was a citizen army of part-time rifle, artillery and engineer corps, created as a
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and the standing army. Some also compared the initiative, small unit tactics and
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Force (made up of mounted units, organised similarly to the Volunteer Force),
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was also to dealt with as if it were a county of England, with the
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leading the Volunteer gathering in Brighton, 1863, depicted in the
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and the other ranks of the working class and farm labourers of the
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Riflemen Form: A Study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement, 1859–1908
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units of the same arm within the county to adopt a common uniform.
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Members of the corps were to swear an oath of allegiance before a
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Officers were to hold their commissions from the lord-lieutenant
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The Volunteer Force: A Social and Political History, 1859–1908
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on 9 May 1859. As a basis for the units, many communities had
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on 14 January 1858. It emerged that the would-be assassin,
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Officer of the Exeter & South Devon Volunteers in 1852
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Standards, colours and Guidons of the Commonwealth Forces
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units are directly descended from Volunteer Force units.
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Unlike regular rifle regiments, the volunteer units had
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Two volunteer units whose services had been accepted by
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captured the spirit of the time by publishing his poem
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performing the same role as a county lord-lieutenant.
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The volunteers finally saw active service during the
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Volunteer military formations of the United Kingdom
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2006:History, esp Inspector-General of Auxiliary Forces
1693:Records of the Scottish volunteer force, 1859–1908
1252:Category:Rifle Volunteer Corps of the British Army
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2044:Military units and formations established in 1859
2029:Military units and formations of the British Army
1518:"ARMY—AUXILIARY FORCES—THE MILITIA.—OBSERVATIONS"
2020:
1730:The county lieutenancies and the army, 1803–1814
1414:"THE HONORABLE THE BOARD OF ORDNANCE. 1299—1855"
1710:War Office Circular, 12 May 1859, published in
1959:Grierson, James Moncrieff, Lt Gen Gen, 1909.
1597:(1 May 1900). "The British Volunteer System".
307:but were stood down afterwards. Following the
245:and many colonies. Known collectively as the
122:in 1908. Most of the regiments of the present
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1352:The Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers)
185:though not including the originally civilian
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2039:1859 establishments in the United Kingdom
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563:Thomas Heron Jones, 7th Viscount Ranelagh
320:, the War Office had been forced to send
229:, and originally an infantry force), the
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16:Former citizen army of the British Empire
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951:Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907
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1463:MILITIA BILL. (Hansard, 23 April 1852)
1306:Volunteer Training Corps (World War I)
241:. Equivalents were also raised in the
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975:7th (Isle of Man) Volunteer Battalion
904:In 1872, under the provisions of the
740:Text of statute as originally enacted
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477:. In a handful of counties, units of
351:had travelled to England to have the
1582:militia in vulnerable British towns.
118:in 1881, before forming part of the
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969:The 1907 act did not extend to the
355:used in the attack manufactured in
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502:Duke of Cumberland's Sharpshooters
373:Second Italian War of Independence
47:it lacks sufficient corresponding
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1830:: Osprey Publishing. p. 63.
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906:Regulation of the Forces Act 1871
494:Exeter and South Devon Volunteers
367:broke out between France and the
294:Regulation of the Forces Act 1871
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776:Parliament of the United Kingdom
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379:Creation of the Volunteer Force
1969:Collecting Volunteer Militaria
1654:"The British Volunteer System"
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1316:Honourable Artillery Company
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1341:Halifax Volunteer Battalion
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910:Secretary of State for War
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385:Secretary of State for War
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1291:1st Middlesex Volunteers
873:way adjacent to ranges.
706:Territorial extent
593:Royal Commission of 1862
305:French Revolutionary War
273:was created in 1859, by
183:Royal Sappers and Miners
1945:Beckett, I F W, 2007.
1928:Encyclopædia Britannica
1399:navalhistoryarchive.org
1357:Cambridgeshire Regiment
1282:British Volunteer Corps
973:, and consequently the
567:Illustrated London News
393:lieutenants of counties
303:were formed during the
187:Commissariat Department
167:Ordnance Military Corps
62:more precise citations.
2013:Matters Photographical
1871:Matters Photographical
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1336:The Liverpool Scottish
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1851:Edwards, T J (1953).
1787:Wyatt (1974) pp.39–46
1658:North American Review
1650:Rt. Hon Earl Brownlow
1595:Rt. Hon Earl Brownlow
1239:United Kingdom portal
1008:Classed as efficient
944:The Territorial Force
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548:Volunteer Regulations
261:of counties, and, in
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1949:, Pen & Sword.
1893:Volunteer Act 1863 (
1822:Sumner, Ian (2001).
1570:National Army Museum
1542:National Army Museum
587:Combined Cadet Force
500:(descended from the
438:justice of the peace
383:On 12 May 1859, the
345:Emperor Napoleon III
227:Constitutional Force
19:For other uses, see
1977:David & Charles
1859:. pp. 133–134.
1566:"Civilian soldiers"
1538:"Civilian soldiers"
1452:. 12 February 1917.
961:in 1908 (while the
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854:c. 65) was passed.
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199:Yeomen of the Guard
1922:"Volunteers"
1755:on 30 October 2008
1432:– via JSTOR.
1321:Post Office Rifles
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848:Volunteer Act 1863
756:Volunteer Act 1897
658:Volunteer Act 1863
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475:Army Medical Corps
398:Volunteer Act 1804
299:A large number of
267:colonial governors
243:Crown Dependencies
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1895:26 & 27 Vict.
1857:Gale & Polden
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852:26 & 27 Vict.
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799:60 & 61 Vict.
764:Act of Parliament
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698:26 & 27 Vict.
663:Act of Parliament
603:Viscount Eversley
251:Peterloo massacre
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