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) │