Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 June 2003. Corrected and updated 30.04.2005
 
Argyllshire Militia
 
United Kingdom  
  Titles & Lineage
  History & War Service
  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards and Guidons

  Badges and Uniforms
  Colonels
 Traditions
 Bibliography

Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency. See the main regimental page(s) as linked below for more information.
How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
  Titles and Lineage Scottish County Index
Alphabetic Index of Titles
   
  1689? Argyle Militia
  1770? disbanded
 
  1798 Argyllshire Militia
formed from personnel of disbanded 117th Regt of Foot
  1802 Argyll and Bute Militia
  1803.06.11 43rd, or Argyll and Bute Militia
  1833.04.30 117th, or Argyll and Bute Militia
HQ at Campbelltown
  1859 117th, or Argyll and Bute Rifles
  1861 Argyll and Bute Artillery (Rifles)
  186u Argyll and Bute Artillery
  1882.04.01 6th Brigade, Scottish Division, RA
  1889.07.01 Argyll and Bute Artillery (Southern Division, RA)
  1902 The West of Scotland RGA (Militia)
HQ moved to Maryhill Barrack, Glasgow
  1908.07.12 West of Scotland Royal Field Reserve Artillery
  1909 disbanded
     
     
  History (Links) & War Service
History:
History of the Argyll Militia, by Mark Brown
  Deployment and War Service:  
 
Colour Key:
War service
Overseas service
Home service
1745 embodied
  1745 Jacobite Rebellion  
  1746 disembodied  
 
  1900.05.08 embodied
       
  1900.10.03 disembodied  
 
Biography and Gallantry Awards:
[no external sites have been found]
Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
The Argyle Militia [1745; Ohio], by Mark Brown
Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
[no external sites have been found]
  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

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  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
  Uniforms and Badges
   
Badges:
Uniform:
   
   
     
   
   
  Honorary Colonels Index of Royal Colonels
Major Commandant:
<1850> Maj. C. George Campbell
Honorary Colonel:
1884.10.22 Lt. Smollett M. Eddington, JP
  Traditions
 
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  Bibliography How To Find Books