Great Britain (Volunteers)

The Lancastrian Volunteers

	formed from elements of 4th/5th Battalion, The King’s Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) (TA) and 4th Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment (TA) and 4th Battalion, The South Lancashire Regiment (TA) and 4th Battalion, The Border Regiment (TA) and 5th Battalion, The King’s Regiment (TA) and 8th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment (TA) and 9th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment (TA) and 5th Battalion, The Loyal Regiment (TA) │		formed from elements of 4th/5th Battalion, The King’s Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) (TA) and 288th (2nd West Lancashire) Light Air Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	formed from elements of 851st (Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry) IndependantField Battery, Royal Artillery (TA) and 4th Battalion, The Border Regiment (TA) │	formed from elements of 4th Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment (TA) and 5th (Bury) Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers (TA) and 253rd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (The Bolton Artillery) (TA) │	formed from elements of 8th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment (TA) and 9th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment (TA) │
	Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
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1967:	The Lancastrian Volunteers		4th/5th (Territorial) Battalion, The King’s Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)	4th (Territorial) Battalion, The Border Regiment	4th (Territorial) Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment	The Manchester Regiment (Ardwick and Ashton) Territorials
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1969:	│ │ │ │		reduced to cadre as 4th/5th Battalion, The King’s Own Royal Regiment │	reduced to cadre as 4th Battalion, The Border Regiment │	reduced to cadre as 4th Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment │	reduced to cadre as 8th/9th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment │
1971:	1st Battalion,		│	B (4th Border Regiment) Company,	A (East Lancashire) Company,	C (Manchester) Company,
	The Lancastrian Volunteers │ │		│ │ │	The Northumbrian Volunteers │ │	2nd Battalion, The Lancastrian Volunteers │
1975:	5th/8th (Volunteer) Battalion, The King’s Regiment	4th (Volunteer) Battalion, The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment			4th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment
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	│ │ │ │	from 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment │	│ │ │ │		│ │ │ │
1999:	A (King’s) Company, C (King’s) Company,	B (Cheshire) Company, D (Cheshire) Company,	A Tobruk (King’s Own Royal Border Regiment) Company, C Sicily (King’s Own Royal Border Regiment) Company,		B Somme (Queen’s Lancashire Regiment) Company, D Waterloo (Queen’s Lancashire Regiment) Company,
	The King’s and Cheshire Regiment │ │		The Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers │ │
2006:	A (Cheshire) Company, B Company,	A (King’s Regiment) Company, D (King’s Regiment) Company,	B (Queen’s Lancashire Regiment) Company, C (King’s Own Royal Border Regiment) Company,
	4th Battalion, The Mercian Regiment	4th Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment (King’s, Lancashire and Border)
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2023:		│