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In May of 1859, the establishment of the Volunteer Force in Great Britain was sanctioned; organised on a county basis and devised for use as a national defence army in the event of invasion. At the beginning of the volunteer system, provisions were made for units to be trained as cavalry, artillery, engineers and infantry. The latter section were styled 'Rifle Volunteers', and were organised in units ranging in size from as little as a half-company, to as large as a battalion of over 900 men. By 1880 the smaller corps had been merged into battalions, and the following year a system was introduced whereby all units were linked to the regular regiments of infantry and styled 'Volunteer Battalions'. In 1908, the Rifle Volunteers were reorganised as the Territorial Force or (TF), and became even more closely associated with the Regular Army regiments.
Queens Rifle Volunteer Brigade, The Royal Scots- 4th and 9th Volunteer Battalions, The Royal Scots (The Lothian Regiment)
- 5th Volunteer Battalion, The Royal Scots (The Lothian Regiment)
- 6th Volunteer Battalion, The Royal Scots (The Lothian Regiment)
- 7th and 8th Volunteer Battalions, The Royal Scots (The Lothian Regiment)
- The 1st and 2nd Volunteer Battalions, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
- 1st Roxburghshire and Selkirk (The Border) Rifle Volunteers
- 2nd (Berwickshire) Volunteer Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderers
- 3rd (Dumfires) Volunteer Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderers
- The Galloway Rifle Volunteer Corps
- 1st Lanarkshire (Glasgow 1st Western) Rifle Volunteers
- 2nd Vol. Bn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and the 3rd Lanarkshire R.V.
- 4th Volunteer Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
- 5th Volunteer Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
- 1st (Dundee) Volunteer Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
- 2nd (Angus) and 3rd Volunteer Battalions, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
- 4th and 5th (Perthshire) Vol. Battalions, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
- 6th (Fifeshire) Volunteer Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
- 1st Volunteer Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry
- 2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry
- 3rd Volunteer Battalion (The Blythswood), The Highland Light Infantry
- 9th Lanarkshire and 5th (Glasgow Highland) Vol. Bn's, Highland Light Infantry
- 1st (Ross Highland) Volunteer Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders
- 1st Sutherland Highland Rifle Volunteers
- 3rd (Morayshire) Volunteer Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders
- 1st (Inverness Highland) Volunteer Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
- 1st Volunteer Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders
- 2nd Vol. Bn. and 5th (Deeside Highland) Vol. Bn. The Gordon Highlanders
- 3rd (The Buchan) Volunteer Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders
- 4th (Donside Highland) Volunteer Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders
- 6th and 7th Volunteer Battalions, The Gordon Highlanders
- 1st and 2nd (Renfrewshire) Vol. Bn's, The Arygll and Sutherland Highlanders
- 3rd (Renfrewshire) and 4th (Stirlingshire) Volunteer Battalions, The A and S.H.
- 5th Volunteer Battalion, The Arygll and Sutherland Highlanders
- 1st Dumbartonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
- 7th (Clackmannan and Kinross) Vol. Bn. The Arygll and Sutherland Highlanders
- The 7th Middlesex (London Scottish) Rifle Volunteers
- The 8th (Scottish) Volunteer Battalion, The King's Liverpool Regiment
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