A political wing was formed in June 1974, the Volunteer Political Party led by UVF Chief of Staff Ken Gibson, which contested West Belfast in the October 1974 General Election, polling 2, 690 votes ( 6 %).

It launched its manifesto " The Volunteer Political Party-a progressive and forward thinking unionist party " at a press conference on 27 September.

During World War I, he served as Commander of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on the Syrian Coast, and as a Political Officer on the staff of Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss ; for his services he was awarded the Italian medal for military valour.

* Volunteer Political Party ( VPP )

The UVF formed a Volunteer Political Party soon after the strike and this group, which rejected Ulster nationalism, suffered similar problems to the politicising UDA as it too failed to make any inroads into the support of the established unionist parties.

They benefited, along with the Ulster Volunteer Force, and a group called Ulster Resistance ( set up by the Democratic Unionist Party ), from a shipment of arms imported from Lebanon in 1988.

He resigned as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and as Prime Minister in April 1969 after a series of bomb explosions on Belfast's water supply by the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) brought his personal political crisis to a head.

* Bobby McKee, Democratic Unionist Party councillor and former Ulster Volunteer Force member.

Redmond, he said, was ‘ thoroughly alarmed ’ at the spread of the Volunteer movement, and they were prepared for some attempt to ‘ make peace with the influential ones of the Provisional Committee .’ This, he said, proved to be the case, with Redmond offering Eoin MacNeill to finance the Volunteers if his Party would be allowed to have a controlling ‘ say ’ on the movement.

With the support of the Irish Party the Volunteer organization grew dramatically.

Almost all of the several million Swabians were expelled from Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia during the period 1944-1950, as part of the ethnic cleansing against their German minorities which in large numbers took part in Nazi Party and in Hitler's army, like notorious 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen and the like.

Represented mainly by the Ulster Unionist Party and backed by the Orange Order, the unionists established in January 1913 the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force, with 100, 000 members who threatened to resist by physical force the implementation of the Act and the authority of any restored Dublin Parliament by force of arms, fearing that Dublin rule would mean the ascendency of Catholicism — in the words of one MP, that "' home rule ' in Ireland would prove to be ' Rome Rule '.

It would therefore be fruitless to promote the Volunteer Party as a party political machine ".

Mindaugas Murza-Gervaldas ( born December 16, 1973 ) is an anti-semitic Lithuanian politician, a radical nationalist former member of the National Democratic Party ( Lithuania ), former member of the Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces ( a Lithuanian government sponsored paramilitary organization ), a one time leader of the Neo-Nazi National Socialist Party, and member of Šiauliai city municipality council.

The party founded by the ex-members of Republican Party of Armenia and members of " Yerkrapah " Volunteer union-Aram Sargsyan, Albert Bazeyan, Vagharshak Harutyunyan, Ara Ketikyan and others, in April, 2001.

* Progressive Unionist Party ( PUP ), which is linked to the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF )

At Foča, beginning of 1942, he was re-admitted into the Party, and placed as political commissar for the Drina Volunteer ( Partisan ) Detachment.

However, although it was lightly guarded, Volunteer and Citizen Army forces under Seán Connolly failed to take Dublin Castle, the centre of British rule in Ireland, shooting dead a police sentry and overpowering the soldiers in the guardroom, but failing to press home the attack.

One Volunteer in the GPO recalled, " we did practically no shooting as there was no target ".

Volunteer Robert Holland for example remembered being abused by people he knew as he was being marched into captivity and said the British troops saved them from being manhandled by the crowds.

The post was manned originally by two companies of the 11th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry and never had walls.

The passage of the Bill through Parliament over the next two years was accompanied in Ireland by the formation of first unionist, and then nationalist, mass-membership armed militias: the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Irish Volunteers, respectively.

Throughout the First World War, the cable landing station at Port Cornaa was guarded by the Isle of Man Volunteer Corps.

In April 2006, Lynch was awarded the " National Chairman of Volunteers " Award for Volunteer Excellence by the American Red Cross, due to his leadership during the 2005 floods.

The merchants were conservative and reactionary, and their Volunteer Corp leader Chen Lianbao was a prominent comprador trader.

The Luxembourg contingent was incorporated into the ' Belgian United Nations Command ' or the ' Korean Volunteer Corps '.

In addition to the CMF, the Volunteer Defence Corps, a volunteer force modeled on the British Home Guard, was formed in 1940 and had a strength of almost 100, 000 men across Australia at its peak.

At fourteen he emigrated to the USA to serve in the U. S. Army during the Civil War, although he had to wait until he was fifteen to serve in the Twelfth New York Volunteer Cavalry, where he was a drummer.

One of the earliest gazetted units ( 13 January 1859 ) was the Taranaki Volunteer Rifle Company.

By late 1859 the number of Volunteer units were so great that Captain H C Balneavis was appointed Deputy Adjunct-General, based at Auckland.

In 1942, an official SS Volunteer Committee was established in Finland to take care of the battalion's somewhat strained relations with its German superiors.

With the outbreak of World War I, the defunct St Helena Volunteer Corps was re-established.

The National Rifle Association ( NRA ) of the United Kingdom was founded in 1860 to raise the funds for an annual national rifle meeting " for the encouragement of Volunteer Rifle Corps, and the promotion of Rifle-shooting throughout Great Britain ".

" Accordingly, Wood was promoted to Brigadier General of Volunteer Forces, and Roosevelt was promoted to Colonel and given command of the Regiment.

During World War II he was in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve after which he was awarded a two year grant in the Department of Indian Religion and Philosophy, Banaras Hindu University, India, from which he graduated with a master's degree in Indian Religion and Philosophy.

The Loyalist Volunteer Force ( LVF ) leader Billy Wright was shot dead in December 1997 by two Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) prisoners.

In the summer of 1861 he was finally commissioned a Lt. Colonel in the Union Army and given command of the 42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

The MSW was responsible for administrative duties, but eventually it took over the control of Internal Security Corps, Citizens ' Militia, Border Troops, Prison Guard and also members of the Volunteer Reserve Citizen Militia.

On August 22, 1862 he was mustered out of the volunteer service but returned to the field as major in the 19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

With rival paramilitary organisations appearing in both the nationalist / republican and Irish unionist / Ulster loyalist communities ( the Ulster Defence Association, Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ), etc.

The Cuban government supported and still supports the Republican cause, but opposed the attacks which took place on civilian targets by Sinn Féin's military ally, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and of course attacks on civilians by their loyalist enemies such as the Ulster Volunteer Force and Ulster Defence Association.

The Loyalist Volunteer Force ( LVF ) is a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland.

In the more strongly loyalist environment of Portadown, nicknamed the " Orange Citadel ", Wright was, along with other working-class Protestant teenagers in the area, targeted by the loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) as a potential recruit.

The Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) is a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland.

The Shankill Butchers is the name given to an Ulster loyalist gang, many of whom were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ).

It also sparked a violent feud between the UDA and its rival loyalist organisation, the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ).

In August 2006, the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force claimed they had planted a bomb in the Mansion House in 1981, in an attempt to wipe out the Sinn Féin leadership at their party conference of that year.

In recent times, the term is often used to refer to militants including several loyalist paramilitary groups, such as the Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ), Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) and Loyalist Volunteer Force ( LVF ).

* Harris Boyle ( c. 1953 – 1975 ), Northern Irish loyalist and Ulster Volunteer Force member

The Red Hand Commando ( RHC ) is a small loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, which is closely linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ).

However, unlike the two biggest loyalist paramilitaries — the Ulster Defence Association and Ulster Volunteer Force — the group fully opposes the peace process and peace agreements, including the Good Friday Agreement.

On 10 December, the day after the agreement was announced, loyalist paramilitaries formed the Ulster Army Council — a coalition of loyalist paramilitary groups, including the Ulster Defence Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force, which would oppose the agreement.

The BNSM also built up links with the Ulster Defence Association and Ulster Volunteer Force and BNSM members also served with the English companies of these Ulster loyalist paramilitaries.

The Ulster loyalist paramilitary group Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) claimed responsibility in 1993.

The two main loyalist paramilitary groups, the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) and the Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ), retained their weapons for a longer period during which their members were said by the Independent Monitoring Commission to still be engaged in criminal activities.

* 13 October 1994 The Combined Loyalist Military Command, representing the Ulster Volunteer Force, Ulster Defence Association and Red Hand Commandos announce a loyalist paramilitary ceasefire.

Niall Donovan ( 28 ), a Catholic man, was stabbed to death near Dungannon, County Tyrone by the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ).

Although no organization claimed responsibility for the attacks at the time, loyalist paramilitaries from Northern Ireland ( in particular the Ulster Volunteer Force ) were widely blamed.

In the mid-1990s, the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) and the main loyalist paramilitary groups — the Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) and Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF )— declared ceasefires.