The Wessex Volunteers

formed from elements of:
5th Battalion,
The Gloucestershire
Regiment
(TA)

and
4th Battalion,
The Devonshire
Regiment
(TA)

and
4th/5th Battalion,
The Royal Hampshire
Regiment
(TA)

and
The Dorset Regiment (TA)
and
4th/6th Battalion,
The Royal Berkshire
Regiment
(TA)

formed from elements of:
4th/5th Battalion,
The Royal Hampshire
Regiment
(TA)

and
383rd (Duke of Connaught’s
Royal Hampshire)
Field Regiment
Royal Artillery (TA)

and
457th (Wessex)
Heavy Air Defence Regiment,
Royal Artillery
(Hampshire Carabiniers
Yeomanry) (TA)

formed from elements of:
250th (Queen’s Own Dorset and
West Somerset Yeomanry)
Medium Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)

and
The Dorset Regiment (TA)
formed from elements of:
The Berkshire and
Westminster Dragoons
(TA)

and
299th (Royal Buckinghamshire
Yeomanry,
Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars,
and Berskshire) Field Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)

and
4th/6th Battalion,
The Royal Berkshire
Regiment
(TA)

formed from elements of:
299th (Royal Buckinghamshire
Yeomanry,
Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars,
and Berskshire) Field Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)

Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
1967: The Wessex Volunteers The Hampshire and
Isle of Wight Territorials
The Dorset Territorials The Royal Berkshire Territorials The Buckinghamshire Regiment
Royal Artillery (Territorials)
Wessex
HIW
Dorset
Berks
Bucks
1969: from reduced to cadre reduced to cadre reduced to cadre reduced to cadre as
The Royal Wiltshire Territorials
a cadre as
The Wiltshire Regiment












The Buckinghamshire Regiment


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1971:

B (Duke of Connaught’s)
Company,
D (Queen’s Own Dorset Yeomanry)
Company,
C (Royal Berkshire)
Company,
A (Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry)
Company,
1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion,
The Wessex Volunteers
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1972: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion,
The Wessex Regiment


(Rifle Volunteers)

(Volunteers)

1975: disbanded


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1987: 4th (Volunteer) Battalion,
The Devonshire and
Dorset Regiment

(1st Rifle Volunteers)











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1995:

A (Gloucester) Company,
B (City of Bristol) Company,
C (Wiltshire) Company,
HQ (Berkshire) Company,


2nd (V) Battalion,
The Royal Gloucestershire,
Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment
DDR
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1999: C (Devonshire and Dorset Regiment)
Company,
E (Devonshire and Dorset Regiment)
Company,

The Rifle Volunteers
The Royal Gloucestershire,
Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment Company,

The Rifle Volunteers
The Royal Gloucestershire,
Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment Company,

The Royal Rifle Volunteers