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The Argyll & Bute Militia was an auxiliary military unit in the west of Scotland from 1798 to 1909, serving in Home Defence during the French Revolutionary, Napoleonic, Crimean and Second Boer Wars. Originally an infantry regiment, it was converted into artillery in 1861.
Pages in category "Argyll and Bute Militia" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
1st Argyll and Bute Artillery Volunteers; 1st Argyll and Bute Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) 2 (Oban) Air-Landing Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery; 2nd (Millport) Buteshire Artillery Volunteer Corps; 2nd (Tarbert) Argyllshire Artillery Volunteer Corps; 3rd (Oban) Argyllshire Artillery Volunteer Corps
The Campbell of Argyll Militia also known as the Campbell militia, [1] the Argyll militia, [2] or the Argyllshire men, [2] was an irregular militia unit formed in 1745 by John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll to oppose the Jacobite rising of 1745.
The main railway line in Argyll and Bute is the West Highland Line, which links Oban to Glasgow, passing through much of the eastern and northern parts of the area. From the south the line enters Argyll and Bute just to the west of Dumbarton, continuing north via Helensburgh Upper to the eastern shores of the Gare Loch and Loch Long.
Argyll's Regiment of Foot was a Scottish infantry regiment formed in April 1689 to suppress Jacobite opposition in the Highlands. In February 1692 it took part in the Glencoe Massacre , moved to Brentford near London in May then to Flanders in early 1693 where it fought in the Nine Years War .
The 1st Argyll & Bute Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery formed in Scotland in 1860 in response to a French invasion threat. It 1908 it became the only Mountain Artillery unit in the Territorial Force, and saw action at Gallipoli and Salonika during the First World War.
Argyll and Bute Militia (1 C, 9 P) B. Bedfordshire Militia (1 C, 7 P) Royal Berkshire Militia (1 C, 8 P) Berwickshire, Haddington, Linlithgow and Peebles Militia (1 C ...