Great Britain (Volunteers)

The Light Infantry (Volunteers)

formed from elements of
The Duke of Cornwall’s
Light Infantry
(TA)

and
4th Battalion,
The King’s Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry
(TA)

and
4th Battalion,
The King’s Shropshire
Light Infantry
(TA)

and
1st Battalion,
The Herefordshire
Light Infantry
(TA)

and
6th/8th Battalion,
The Durham Light Infantry (TA)

formed from elements of
The Duke of Cornwall’s
Light Infantry
(TA)

formed from elements of
The North Somerset and
Bristol Yeomanry
(TA)

and
250th (Queens’s Own Dorset and
West Somerset Yeomanry)
Medium Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)

and
The Somerset Light Infantry
(Prince Albert’s)
(TA)

formed from elements of
4th Battalion,
The King’s Shropshire Light Infantry (TA)

and
1st Battalion,
The Herefordshire Light Infantry (TA)

formed from elements of
6th/8th Battalion,
The Durham Light Infantry (TA)

formed from elements of
4th Battalion,
The King’s Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry
(TA)

Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
1967: The Light Infantry Volunteers The Duke of Cornwall’s
Light Infantry (Territorials)
The Somerset Yeomanry and
Light Infantry (Territorials)
The King’s Shropshire and
Herefordshire Light Infantry
(Territorials)
6th/8th (Territorial) Battalion,
The Durham Light Infantry
4th (Territorial) Battalion,
The King’s Own
Yorkshire Light Infantry
Light-Infantry
DCLI
SomersetYandLI
KSLI Hereford-LI
DurhamLI
KOYLI
1969:



reduced to cadre as
The Duke of Cornwall’s
Light Infantry


reduced to cadre as
The Somerset Yeomanry and
Light Infantry


reduced to cadre as
The King’s Shropshire and
Herefordshire Light Infantry


reduced to cadre as
6th/8th Battalion,
The Durham Light Infantry

reduced to cadre as
4th Battalion,
The King’s Own
Yorkshire Light Infantry

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1971:


C (Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry)
Company,
D (Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry)
Company,
A (Somerset Yeomanry Light Infantry)
Company,
B (Somerset Yeomanry Light Infantry)
Company,
C (King’s Shropshire Light Infantry)
Company,
D (Herefordshire Light Infantry) Company,
E (6th/8th Durham Light Infantry)
Company,
E (The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry)
Company,



6th Battalion,
The Light Infantry
(Volunteers)
The Light Infantry and Mercian Volunteers


The Northumbrian Volunteers


2nd Battalion,
The Yorkshire Volunteers

1972: 5th Battalion,
The Light Infantry
(Volunteers)



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1975:











Light Infantry elements to 5th Bn and 6th Bn formed from elements of 5th Bn
and
The Northumbrian Volunteers
and
2nd Battalion,
The Yorkshire Volunteers




7th Battalion,
The Light Infantry (Volunteers)


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1987:














formed from elements of 5th Bn
and
2nd Battalion,
The Yorkshire Volunteers






8th Battalion,
The Light Infantry (Volunteers)
1988: 5th (Shropsire and Herefordshire)
Battalion,
6th (Somerset and Cornwall)
Battalion,
7th (Durham)
Battalion,
8th (Yorkshire)
Battalion,
The Light Infantry
(Volunteers)
(Volunteers)
(Volunteers)
(Volunteers)
1993: 5th Battalion,
The (Shropsire and Herefordshire)
Light Infantry (Volunteers)
6th Battalion,
The (Somerset and Cornwall)
Light Infantry (Volunteers)
7th Battalion,
The (Durham)
Light Infantry (Volunteers)
8th Battalion,
The (Yorkshire)
Light Infantry (Volunteers)
1996:


The King’s Own Yorkshire
Yeomanry (Light Infantry)
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KOYY










from
4th (Volunteer) Battalion,
The Devonshire and
Dorset Regiment

(1st Rifle Volunteers)

from elements of
2nd (V) Battalion,
The Royal Gloucestershire,
Berkshire and Wiltshire
Regiment











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1999: B (Worcestershire and
Sherwood Foresters Regiment) Company,
E (Light Infantry) Company,
B (Somerset Light Infantry) Company,
D (Cornwall Light Infantry) Company,
C (Devonshire and Dorset Regiment)
Company,
E (Devonshire and Dorset Regiment)
Company,
A (The Royal Gloucestershire,
Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment)
Company,
C (Durham Light Infantry) Company,
The Tyne-Tees Regiment
Minden Company (Light Infantry),
The East and West Riding
Regiment
The West Midlands Regiment The Rifle Volunteers

2007: 6th Battalion,
The Rifles
RIFLES
2023: RIFLES