Altcar Training Camp
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Altcar Training Camp is located in Hightown, Merseyside, England. The 620-acre estate is composed of beaches, marshland, fields and small woods. The range is run by the North West Reserve Forces & Cad
Altcar Training Camp
Altcar Rifle Range
Altcar camp 1981
Little Altcar; the Club Huts
Volunteer Force
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The Volunteer Force was a citizen army of part-time rifle, artillery and engineer corps, created as a popular movement throughout the British Empire in 1859. Originally highly autonomous, the units of
Altcar Training Camp
…William Molyneux, 4th Earl of Sefton first made the site available for the Grand Lancashire Rifle Contest on 29 October 1860. He donated the land to the Volunteer Forces two years later. A railway station was established near the site in 1862 but closed in 1921. The site, which had been known as Altcar Rifle Range, was…
Officer of the Exeter & South Devon Volunteers in 1852
Thomas Heron Jones, 7th Viscount Ranelagh leading the Volunteer gathering in Brighton, 1863, depicted in the Illustrated London News