Great Britain (Volunteers)

The Mercian Volunteers

			formed from elements of 4th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment (TA) and 7th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment (TA) and 7th Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment (TA) and 5th/8th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) (TA) and 5th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment (TA) and 5th/6th Battalion, The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s) (TA) │	formed from elements of 4th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment (TA) and 7th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment (TA) │	formed from elements of The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen’s Own Royal Regiment) (TA) and 5th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment (TA) and 5th/6th Battalion, The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s) (TA) │	formed from 267th (Worcestershire) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │
	Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
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1967:			The Mercian Volunteers	4th/7th (Territorial) Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment	5th/6th (Territorial) Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s)	The Worcestershire Territorial Regiment, Royal Artillery
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1969:			│ │ │ │ │	reduced to cadre as 4th/7th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment │ │	reduced to cadre as 5th/6th Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s) │	reduced to cadre as The Worcestershire Regiment, Royal Artillery │ │
1970:			│ │	│ │	│ │	The Worcestershire Regiment │
1971:			│ │ │ │ │		A (Worcestershire Regiment) Company, B (5th/6th Bn Staffordshire Regiment) Company, E Company, The Light Infantry and Mercian Volunteers │
			│ │		│ from these companies
1975:			1st Battalion, The Mercian Volunteers │		2nd Battalion, The Mercian Volunteers │
1988:			3rd (Volunteer) Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s)	3rd (Volunteer) Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment	4th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot)
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1993:			│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │	A Company, 5th Battalion, The (Shropsire and Herefordshire) Light Infantry (Volunteers)
	from 5th (Warwickshire) Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers │	from 5th Battalion, The (Shropsire and Herefordshire) Light Infantry (Volunteers) │	│ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │	from 5th/8th Battalion, The King’s Regiment │
1999:	A (Fusilier) Company,	B (Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment) Company, E (Light Infantry) Company,	C (Stafford) Company, D (Stafford) Company,	B (Cheshire) Company, D (Cheshire) Company	A (King’s) Company, C (King’s) Company
	The West Midlands Regiment │ │			The King’s and Cheshire Regiment │ │
2006:	C (Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters) Company, D (Staffordshire) Company, F (Fusiliers) Company, L Company (Light Infantry),			A (Cheshire) Company, B Company,	A (King’s Regiment) Company, D (King’s Regiment) Company, 4th Battalion,
		The West Midlands Regiment │ │			The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment (King’s, Lancashire and Border)
2007:		4th Battalion, The Mercian Regiment
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2014:		4th Battalion, The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffordshire) │