1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers
| 1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers 3rd Home Counties (Cinque Ports) Brigade 59th (Home Counties) (Cinque Ports) Field Brigade 75th Heavy AA Regiment |
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| Active | 7 November 1859–1 March 1955 |
| Country |
 United Kingdom
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| Branch |
 Volunteer Force/Territorial Army
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| Type | Artillery Corps |
| Role | Coastal Artillery Field Artillery Anti-Aircraft Artillery |
| Size | Artillery Brigade/Regiment |
| Garrison/HQ | Dover |
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| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders |
Lt-Col N.V. Sadler, DCM |
The 1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery from 1860 to 1956. Raised as coastal defence artillery, the unit later served as field artillery in Mesopotamia during World War I, and as anti-aircraft artillery during the Blitz and in the Middle East during World War II.
The enthusiasm for the Volunteer Movement following an invasion scare in 1859 saw the creation of many units composed of part-time soldiers eager to supplement the Regular British Army in time of need. A large number of coastal artillery units were formed in the seaports along the Kent and Sussex coast (the ancient Cinque Ports), and in September 1862 these artillery volunteer corps (AVCs) were brought together to form the 1st Administrative Brigade, Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers, at Dover:
1st Administrative Brigade, Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers
The fourth battery of the 4th (Hastings) Corps was raised in 1861 at Rye, East Sussex from the defunct Rye Rifle Volunteer Corps. This battery wore an unusual naval uniform until it adopted the regulation garrison artillery uniform in 1872. The battery was disbanded in 1876 after a shooting competition at Hastings, when the men refused their captain's orders to march back to Rye and instead caught the train. The 4th (Hastings) Corps also had a Cadet Corps affiliated to it from March 1864 to 1868. The commanding officer (CO) of the 1st Admin Bde from 1862 was Lt-Col Edward Vernon Harcourt, formerly of the Oxfordshire Militia and a leading member of the Volunteer movement and the National Artillery Association.
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