page_title: Cheshire Artillery Volunteers
section_title: Interwar
hierarchical_section_title: Cheshire Artillery Volunteers / Interwar
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Stockport Armoury, Greater Manchester, England
context_page_description: The Cheshire Artillery Volunteers was a brigade of Volunteer artillery units raised in the county of Cheshire in the mid-19th Century. Their successors served as field artillery in Palestine during World War I and as anti-aircraft gunners in the Middle East in World War II. They continued in the air defence role in the Territorial Army until 1955.
context_section_description: After the war the Cheshire Brigade was reconstituted in 1920, incorporating the former 6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, at Stockport and the Shropshire Royal Horse Artillery at Shrewsbury to form the 6th (Cheshire and Shropshire) Medium Brigade, RGA. The TF was reorganised as the Territorial Army (TA) in 1921, and the unit was redesignated as 60th (6th Cheshire and Shropshire) Medium Brigade, RGA (RA from 1924 when the RGA was subsumed into the Royal Artillery), with the following organisation:
  HQ at The Armoury, Stockport
  237 (Cheshire) Med Bty at Stockport
  238 (Cheshire) Med Bty (Howitzer) at Stockport
  239 (Cheshire) Med Bty (Howitzer) at Walmsley Street, Stalybridge
  240 (Shropshire) Medium Bty (Howitzer) at Coleham, Shrewsbury
  The unit was part of 'Army Troops' in the 42nd (East Lancashire) Divisional Area. 240 (Shropshire) Med Bty gained the subtitle '(Shropshire RHA)' in 1927. The 1st Cheshire RGA Cadet Corps was affiliated with the brigade.
caption: Stockport Armoury today.
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