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Pre-Crimen war Volunteers

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Is there another article that deals with the pre-1856 Volunteers?--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 22:04, 27 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

W.S. Gilbert

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The playright and librettist W. S. Gilbert joined the Volunteers at its creation, and rose to the rank of Captain in the Royal Aberdeenshire Highlanders, one of the divisions of the Volunteer Army. He was promoted to the honourary rank of Major upon his resignation in 1878.^[1]

I've removed this image and its footnotes, because the Royal Aberdeenshire Highlanders wasn't a Volunteer unit - it was a Militia battalion. This interview seems to bear that out, as it notes:

I was intended for the Royal Artillery, and read up during the Crimean War. Of course, it came to an end just as I was prepared to go up for examination. No more officers were required, and further examinations were indefinitely postponed until I was over age. I was offered a line commission, but declined; but eventually, in 1868, I was appointed Captain of the Royal Aberdeenshire Highlanders (Militia), a post I held for sixteen years.

Frustrated professional rather than enthusiastic volunteer, it seems, and it would explain why he was appointed to an Aberdeenshire unit not a London one! Shimgray | talk | 21:15, 24 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

References

^ Ainger, Michael (2002), Gilbert and Sullivan: A Dual Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pages 43-44, 78, and 154. Stedman, Jane (1996), W. S. Gilbert: A Classic Victorian and His Theatre, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 5–6, 140, and 157.

Volunteer Force: Great War?

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What was the Volunteer Force that existed during the Great War? See below. Obviously some kind of home service units, as can be seen by the appointments as County Commandant, County Adjutant, Group Commandant, and some retired officers receiving temporary commissions of much lower rank than held while in the Regular Army. But its not the Territorial Force, the Royal Defence Corps, the Territorial Force Reserve or the Special Reserve, since they are mentioned separately elsewhere in this issue of the Gazette.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 3 JANUARY, 1917. 189

VOLUNTEER FORCE.

Bedfordshire Volunteer Regt. To be temp. Capt. and (County Adjt.: — Herbert Eldon Chappel (late Capt. Calcutta Vols.). 4th Jan. 1917.

Cornwall Volunteer Regt. To be temp. Lt.-Col. and County Commandant : — Brig.-Gen. Thomas 'Cole Porter, C.B., late 6th Dragoon Gds. 4th Jan. 1917.

Durham Volunteer Regt. " B " Group. To be temp. Lt.-Col. and Group Commandant : — Lt.-Col. William Thomlinson (late 22nd Bn., Durh. L.I.). 4th. Jan. 1917.

City of Edinburgh Volunteer Regt. 1st Bn.—Temp. Lt. W. G. Glover resigns his commission. 6th Dec. 1916.

Haddingtonshire Volunteer Regt. 1st Bn.—2nd Lt. Arthur George Spence, to be temp. Lt. and Adjt. 4th Jan. 1917.

Kirkcudbrightshire Volunteer Regt. 1st Bn.—Temp. Lt. H. Murray Dunlop resigns his commission. 20th Dec. 1916.

County of London Volunteer Regt. 10th Bn.—To be temp. <Capt. and Adjt.: — Ashley Webb Gent. 19th Oct. 1916.

Sussex Volunteer Regt. 6th Bn.—To be temp. Maj.: — Col. George Alfred Money (U.S.L. Ind. Army). 4th Jan. 1917. To be temp. Capte, 4th Jan. 1917 : — Col. Frank John Todd (late Royal Irisfe Fus.). Temp. .Lt. R. J. Streatfeild. Temp. Lt. E. D. Stafford. Temp. Lt. J. H. Macartney. Temp. 2nd Lt. J. J. Lines. To be temp. Lts. 4th Jan. 1917 : — Lt.-Col. Laurence Charles Frederick Thompson (late L'po-1 Regt.). Temp. 2nd Lt. E.. Monk. Temp. 2nd Lt. E. A. Glover. Temp. 2nd Lt. G. M. Maryon-Wilson. Frederick Walter Bovill. Frederick James Thyer. Rolf Keith Henderson. To be temp. 2nd Lts. 4th Jan. 1917: — George Ernest Hart. John Campbell-Johnstone. John Michael Hay Grant. To be temp. Lt. and Adjt. 4th Jan. 1917: — Temp. Lt. A. H. Innes. To be temp. Hon. Lt. and Qr.-Mr.: — William Edward Nicholson. 4th Jan. 1917.

Yorkshire West Riding Volunteer Regt. 2nd Bn.—To be temp. Maj.: — Harry Derbyshire Norris. -4th Jan. 1917. To be temp. Capts. 4th. Jan. 1917 : — Joseph Newsome. Frederick Beaumont Hirst. Rowland Ward. Robert Saunderson Cahill. To be temp. Lts. 4th Jan. 1917: — Milton Hirst. James Fearnside. Harry Halmshaw. Wharton Peers Davies. To be temp. 2nd Lts. 4th Jan. 1917: — James Prior. Charles Etty Potter. Joseph Norman Porritt. George Willey Scatchard. Edgar Stockdale.

Source: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29889/supplement/1

Creuzbourg (talk) 15:47, 14 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

A slightly different name, the "Gorgeous Wrecks"

Volunteer Training Corps

Keith H99 (talk) 18:55, 24 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

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[1] Ainger, Michael (2002), Gilbert and Sullivan: A Dual Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pages 43-44, 78, and 154. Stedman, Jane (1996), W. S. Gilbert: A Classic Victorian and His Theatre, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 5–6, 140, and 157.

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