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The recruiting area for the unit was widened beyond its original four counties, and in April 1894 it was redesignated the South-East of Scotland Artillery to reflect this. [ 4 ] [ 17 ] From 1899 most units of the Militia artillery formally became part of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), the unit formally taking the title of South-East of ...
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On the outbreak of war the North Scottish RGA mobilised in Scottish Coast Defences under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel R.H. Adamson, TD. [3] [4] Shortly afterwards TF units were invited to volunteer for Overseas Service and on 15 August 1914, the War Office (WO) issued instructions to separate those men who had signed up for Home Service only, and form these into reserve units.
By 1895 it had become difficult to obtain recruits in the sparsely populated counties of Argyll and Bute, so the recruiting area was expanded to include Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire, and on 7 November 1895 royal approval was given for the unit's title to be changed to The West of Scotland Artillery.
On 1 July 1889 the garrison artillery was reorganised again into three large territorial divisions of garrison artillery (Eastern, Southern and Western) and one of mountain artillery. The assignment of units to them seemed geographically arbitrary, with the Scottish units being grouped in the Southern Division, for example, but this related to ...
Scotland and the British Army, 1700–1750: Defending the Union (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) Kenyon, John, and Jane Ohlmeyer. The British and Irish Civil Wars: A Military History of Scotland, Ireland, and England, 1638–1660 (1998). Konstam, Angus, and Peter Dennis. Strongholds of the Picts: The fortifications of Dark Age Scotland (2013)
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0–9. 1st (Linlithgow) Light Bridging Company, Royal Engineers; 1st (Midlothian Coast Artillery) Midlothian Artillery Volunteer Corps; 1st Administrative Battalion, Linlithgowshire Rifle Volunteers