Great Britain (Volunteers)

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
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1967:		The Wessex Volunteers	The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Territorials	The Dorset Territorials	The Royal Berkshire Territorials	The Buckinghamshire Regiment Royal Artillery (Territorials)
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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 │ │ │
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	│ │	│ │
1987:	4th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (1st Rifle Volunteers) │ │	│ │ │ │ │ │		│ │ │ │ │ │
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
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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