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The 1st Lancashire Engineer Volunteer Corps was a volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers, first raised in 1860. It went on to spin off a unit of fortress engineers and provided a signals training centre during World War I. ==Origins== The enthusiasm for the Volunteer movement following an invasion scare in 1859 saw the creation of many Rifle, Artillery and Engineer Volunteer units composed of part-time soldiers eager to supplement the Regular British Army in time of need.〔Beckett.〕 One such unit was the 1st Lancashire Engineer Volunteer Corps (EVC) formed at Liverpool on 1 October 1860. In the early part of 1864 it absorbed the 2nd Lancashire EVC, which had been formed at Liverpool on 29 December 1860 (the 3rd Lancashire EVC at St Helens became the new 2nd).〔Beckett, Appendix IX.〕〔Westlake, pp. 10–11.〕〔( LRO Handlist 72. )〕 The unit ranked 4th (later 3rd) in the list of precedence of EVCs, and by 1866 it consisted of eight companies, with its headquarters at 44 Mason Street, Edge Hill, Liverpool.〔''Monthly Army List''.〕 During the 1860s the 1st Lancashire EVC acted as a battalion headquarters, with several smaller EVCs attached to it: 1st Flintshire EVC (1863–97); 1st Cheshire EVC (1864) and 2nd (St Helens) Lancashire EVC (1864–7). The Rossall School Cadet Corps – the oldest school cadet corps in the UK, founded in 1860 – was attached to the 1st Lancashire EVC from 1890 to 1908.〔〔 When Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Clarke, Inspector-General of Fortifications 1882–6, did not have enough Regular Royal Engineers (RE) to man the fixed mines being installed to defend British seaports, he utilised the Volunteer Engineers for this task. After successful trials the system was rolled out to ports around the country.〔Beckett, pp. 184–5.〕〔Short ''et al'', pp. 1–4.〕 In October 1884 the 1st Lancashire EVC formed K Company to cover the Mersey Estuary, and in March 1888 this became independent as the Mersey Division Submarine Miners.〔〔Westlake, p. 15.〕 The EVC titles were abandoned in 1888, when the units became 'Engineer Volunteers, Royal Engineers', proclaiming their affiliation to the Regular RE, and then simply 'Royal Engineers (Volunteers)' in 1896.〔Westlake, p. 3.〕 The unit sent a detachment of volunteers to assist the regular REs during the Second Boer War in 1901.〔Watson, p. 43.〕〔〔('Liverpool's Part in the War, Part XXVI', ''Liverpool Courier'', 22 July 1919. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1st Lancashire Engineers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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