871 - 895 Batteries 1947-67
Dates | Unit | Higher Formation/Remarks |
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. | 871 (Independent) Movement Light Battery RA (Green Howards)(TA) | . |
1.1.47 | Formed | . |
14.7.55 | Disbanded | . |
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. | 872 Locating Battery RA (?Royal West Kent)(TA) | . |
1.1.47 | Formed | . |
1 .5.61 | Amalgamated with HQ RA 44 (Home Counties) Inf Div (as HQ 44 (Home Counties) Div/Dist) | . |
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. | 873 Movement Light Battery RA (The Middlesex Regiment)(TA) | . |
1.1.47 | Formed | . |
by 1961 | Redesignated 873 (Middlesex) Movement Light Battery RA (TA) | . |
1 .5.61 | Reorganised as 873 (Middlesex) Movement Lt Sqn RE (TA) | . |
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. | 874-879 not formed. | . |
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. | 880 Forward Observation Battery RA (Airborne)(TA) | . |
1.1 .47 | Formed | . |
28.5.51 | Redesignated 880 Airborne Locating Battery RA (TA) | . |
31.10.56 | Redesignated 880 Locating Battery RA (TA) | . |
1.5.61 | Amalgamated with 289 Regiment (as 289 Regiment) | . |
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. | 881 COB Battery RA (TA) | . |
1. 1. 47 | Formed | . |
1.6.51 | Redesignated 881 Amphibious Observation Battery RA (TA) | . |
1.5.61 | Redesignated 881 (Independent) Amphibious Observation Battery RA (TA); "Amphibious Observation" omitted 4.10.61. | . |
18.3.64 | Redesignated 881 (Independent) Battery RA (TA) | . |
31.3.67 | Disbanded? | . |
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. | 882 Locating Battery RA (TA) | . |
1.1.47 | Formed | . |
?? | Redesignated 882 Locating Battery RA (Manchester)(TA) | . |
1.5.61 | Amalgamated with 288, 380 (less R Bty) Regiments, and with 42 Inf Div CB Staff Troop as 288 Regiment | . |
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. | 883 Locating Battery RA (TA) | . |
1.1.47 | Formed | . |
7.7.50 | Amalgamated with 376 Regiment to form 883 Locating Battery | . |
?? | Redesignated 883 (Bristol) Locating Battery RA (TA) | . |
1.5.61(LG 25.3.61) | Amalgamated with 311 (less R Bty) Regiment to form 883 (Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery) Locating Bty RA (TA); "Locating" omitted 4.10.61-18.3.64. | . |
TAVR | A (Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery) Sqn, The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars (T) | . |
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. | 884 Locating Battery RA (TA) | . |
1.1.47 | Formed | . |
1 .5.61 | Amalgamated with 271 Regiment (less R Bty) and with 323 Regiment (as 271 Regiment) | . |
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. | 885 Locating Battery RA (TA) | . |
1.1.47 | Formed | . |
1950/51 | Redesignated 885 Locating Battery RA (Northumbrian)(TA) | . |
1.5.61(LG 26.2.61) | Amalgamated with 437 & 463 Regiments (as 463 Regiment), some pers to 50 Div/Dist Signal Regiment, R. Sigs. | . |
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. | 886 Locating Battery RA (TA) | . |
1.1.47 | Formed | . |
1.2.52 | Amalgamated with 362 Regiment (forming 862 Bty) | . |
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. | 887 Locating Battery RA (TA) | . |
1.1 .47 | Formed | . |
31.10.56 | Amalgamated with 281 Regiment (as 281 Regiment) | . |
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. | 887 Locating Battery RA (TA) | . |
31.10.56 | Formed by reorganisation of 261 Regiment | . |
TAVR | B (887 Locating Battery) Sqn, The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) (T) | . |
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1 .1 .47 | 888 Tractor Battery not formed | . |
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. | 888 Locating Battery RA (Renfrewshire)(TA) | . |
1.7.50 | Formed by reorganisation of a bty of 328 Regiment | . |
1.5.61 | Amalgamated with 277 Regiment (less R Bty), 402 Regiment, and R Bty of 357 Regiment (as 277 Regiment), (LG 1.4.61) surplus pers to 445 Regiment | . |
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. | 889 AA FC Battery RA (TA) | . |
1.1.47 | Formed | . |
31.7.54 | Disbanded, at first ordered for 15.7.54 but amended (9.6.54). | . |
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. | 890 AA FC Battery RA (TA) | . |
1.1 .47 | Formed | . |
31.7.54 | Disbanded, at first ordered for 15.7.54 but amended, volunteers transferred to new 59 AA FC Troop at Wigan; surplus pers to 574 & 634 Regiments, and to 70 AA FC Troop | . |
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. | 891 AA FC Battery RA (TA) | . |
1.1.47 | Formed | . |
1.2.50 | Reorganised as 88 AA FC Troop | . |
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. | 892 AA FC Battery RA (County of London)(TA) | . |
1.1 .47 | Formed | . |
1.8.55 | Reorganised as 48 AA FC Troop | . |
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1.1 .47 | 893 Tractor Battery not formed | . |
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. | 894 AA FC Battery RA (TA) | . |
1.1.47 | Formed | . |
15.7.54 | Disbanded, personnel to 455 Regiment | . |
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. | 895 AA FC Battery RA (TA) | . |
1.1.47 | Formed | . |
3.4.51 | Disbanded | . |
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