The tradition of a Corps of Volunteer Infantry in the Greater Manchester area can be traced to 1803 when the following were established. They were gradually disbanded after the Napoleonic threat was over.
Loyal Wigan Infantry Hulme Volunteers M/cr. & Salford St George’s Volunteers 1st M/cr. & Salford 2nd M/cr. & Salford Ashton-u-Lyne Loyal Oldham (Lt Col Earl of Balcarres) (Major Pooley) Volunteer infantry (Lt Col Philips) Volunteers Regiment Volunteers Volunteers (Lt Col John Ackers) (Lt Col Joseph Hanson) (Lt Col John Sylvester) (Lt Col John Wood) (Lt Col John Lees)
THE TERRITORIAL ARMY BATTALIONS OF THE MANCHESTER REGIMENT
Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps 1859 21st LRV 6th LRV 40th LRV 33rd LRV 23rd LRV 31st LRV (Absorbed the 26th, 46th, 55th (1st Manchester) (3rd Manchester) (Absorbed the 28th (2nd M/cr.), 60th, 67th, 76th, 91st) (1861 Absorbed the 43rd 70th, 78th, (4th M/cr.)) (Fallowfield)LRV)
1880 4th LRV 6th LRV 16th LRV 20th LRV 7th LRV 22nd LRV
1881/1889 Became Volunteer Battalions of the Manchester Regiment
1st Vol Bn 2nd Vol Bn 4th Vol Bn 5th (Ardwick) Bn 3rd Vol Bn 6th Vol Bn
1908 Re - designated Territorial Force Battalions of The Manchester Regiment
5th Bn 6th Bn 7th Bn 8th (Ardwick) Vol Bn 9th Bn 10th Bn
1914 To active service To active service To active service To active service To active service To active service
2/5th 2/6th 2/7th 2/8th 2/9th 2/10th
3/5th 3/6th 3/7th 3/8th 3/9th 3/10th (Reserve) (Reserve) (Reserve) (Reserve) (Reserve) (Reserve)
1918/1919 Disbanded Disbanded Disbanded Disbanded Disbanded Disbanded
1920 Re-designated Territorial Army Battalions
1922 Amalgamated as 6/7th
65 A A Regiment Royal Artillery (Dec’36)
1939 To active service New 6th Battalion New 7th Battalion To active service To active service 41st Royal Tank Corps (1938) To active service To active service 1941 111 Regiment RAC 41st Royal Tank Regt. (1939) 1942 2/9th New 5th Bn To active service 88 ATK Regt. R.A. Reformed (1947) 1946 Disbanded Reconstituted as 1st Battalion Merged with 40th RTR (TA) Following the 1st Bn’s capture Amalgamated as 1955 1967 HAA Regiment R.A. at Singapore Disbanded The Manchester Regiment (Ardwick & Ashton) Territorials Merged with DLOY 1975 5th/8th Volunteer Battalion The King's Regiment
1999 C (King’s) Company The King’s & Cheshire Regiment
2006 D (King’s) Company 4th Bn The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment