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
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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
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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 │
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			│
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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) │	│
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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	│ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │		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 │	│ │ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │
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
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2023:		│