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of 1888 proposed a comprehensive Mobilisation Scheme for Volunteer units, which would assemble in their own brigades at key points in case of war. In peacetime these brigades provided a structure for collective training. Under this scheme a number of Volunteer Battalions in South East Scotland would
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The Volunteer Infantry Brigades were reorganised in 1902 and the Forth Brigade was split into the 1st and 2nd Lothian Brigades, with the 1st Brigade based at the QRVB's
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With a total of 12 battalions this brigade was larger than most VIBs and in the early 1890s the 6th and 7th Bns Royal Scots were split off to join the
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7th (Clackmannan and Kinross) Volunteer Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders at
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The brigade headquarters was at 51 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, later at
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in the city. Its first commander, appointed on 15 September 1888, was
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units composed of part-time soldiers eager to supplement the Regular
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of the QRVB, later Lt-Col W.I. Macadam of the 5th VB, Royal Scots.
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Riflemen Form: A Study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement 1859–1908
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following an invasion scare in 1859 saw the creation of many
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1st Lothian Bearer Company, Royal Army Medical Corps (Vols)
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From 1888 the Forth Brigade had the following composition:
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On the Best Detail Formation for the New Infantry Tactics
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Lt-Col W.I. Macadam, Brigade major of the Forth Brigade
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1902
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6th (Fifeshire) Volunteer Battalion, Black Watch at
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Index

United Kingdom

Volunteer Force
Infantry
Brigade
Edinburgh
Colonel
John Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh
Scottish
Volunteer Force
Volunteer movement
Rifle Volunteer
British Army
Stanhope Memorandum
Edinburgh
Surgeons' Hall
Colonel
J.H.A. Macdonald
Lord Advocate
Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant
Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade, Royal Scots

Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade
Royal Scots
4th Volunteer Battalion
Leith
Penicuik
Haddington
8th Volunteer Battalion, Royal Scots
Linlithgow

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