The Volunteer Infantry of the British Army

The Rifle Volunteers from 1859 to 1880

The Consolidation of the Rifle Volunteers in 1880

From the Consolidation of 1880 to the creation of the Territorial Force in 1908

The Volunteer units as parts of the territorial regiments 1881-1914

The Territorial Force Divisions 1910-14

The Battalions of the Territorial Force (TF) in 1914

The Creation of the Territorial Army (TA) from 1920 to 1922

Conversion from 1935 to 1938

The Battalions of the Territorial Army (TA) in 1939

From 1947 to 1961

The Battalions of the Territorial Army (TA) in 1961

The Battalions of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve (TAVR) in 1967

The Volunteer Battalions from 1971 to 1975

The Volunteer Battalions in 1995

The Volunteer units from 1999 to 2007

 
3rd (V) Battalion,
The Royal Highland Fusiliers
(Princess Margaret’s Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)

The Lowland Volunteers		 accolade 52nd Lowland Regiment accolade 52nd Lowland, 6th Battalion
The Royal Regiment of Scotland
 
 
5th (V) Battalion,
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment
(Queen’s and Royal Hampshires)

part of
6th/7th (V) Battalion,
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment
(Queen’s and Royal Hampshires)		 accolade 3rd (V) Battalion,
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment
(Queen’s and Royal Hampshires)		 accolade 3rd Battalion,
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment
(Queen’s and Royal Hampshires)
 
 
part of
6th/7th (V) Battalion,
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment
(Queen’s and Royal Hampshires)

part of
2nd (V) Battalion,
The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment

5th (V) Battalion,
The Royal Green Jackets		 accolade The Royal Rifle Volunteers accolade 7th Battalion,
The Rifles
 
 
4th (V) Battalion,
The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment

4th (V) Battalion,
The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment		 accolade The Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers accolade 4th Battalion,
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment
(King’s, Lancashire and Border)
 
 
6th (Northumberland) Battalion,
The Royal Regiment of Fusilers (V)

4th/5th Battalion,
The Green Howards
(Yorkshire Volunteers)

7th Battalion,
The (Durham) Light Infantry
(Volunteers)		 accolade The Tyne Tees Regiment accolade 5th Battalion,
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
 
 
5th (Warwickshire) Battalion,
The Royal Regiment of Fusilers (V)

5th Battalion,
The (Shropshire and Herefordsire) Light Infantry
(Volunteers)

3rd (V) Battalion,
The Staffordshire Regiment		 accolade The West Midlands Regiment accolade 4th Battalion,
The Mercian Regiment
 
 
5th/8th (V) Battalion,
The King’s Regiment

3rd (V) Battalion,
The Cheshire Regiment		 accolade The King’s and Cheshire Regiment accolade King’s elements to
4th Battalion,
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment
(King’s, Lancashire and Border)

Cheshire elements to
4th Battalion,
The Mercian Regiment
 
 
6th (V) Battalion,
The Royal Anglian Regiment

7th (V) Battalion,
The Royal Anglian Regiment

3rd (V) Battalion,
The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment		 accolade The East of England Regiment accolade 3rd Battalion,
The Royal Anglian Regiment
 
 
6th Battalion,
The (Somerset and Cornwall) Light Infantry
(Volunteers)

4th (V) Battalion,
The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment

part of
2nd (V) Battalion,
The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment		 accolade The Rifle Volunteers accolade 6th Battalion,
The Rifles
 
 
3rd Battalion,
The Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire
(Yorkshire Volunteers)

3rd Battalion,
The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment
(Yorkshire Volunteers)

The King’s Own Yorkshire Yeomanry
(Light Infantry)		 accolade The East and West Riding Regiment accolade 4th Battalion,
The Yorkshire Regiment
(14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th)
 
 
3rd (V) Battalion,
The Royal Welsh Fusiliers

2nd (V) Battalion,
The Royal Regiment of Wales
(24th/41st Foot)
 accolade The Royal Welsh Regiment accolade 3rd Battalion,
The Royal Welsh
 
 
4th/5th Battalion,
The Royal Irish Rangers
(Volunteers)		 accolade The Royal Irish Rangers accolade 2nd Battalion,
The Royal Irish Regiment
 
 
3rd (V) Battalion,
The Black Watch
(Royal Highland Regiment)

3rd (V) Battalion,
The Highlanders
(Seaforth, Gordons and Cameron)

7th/8th (V) Battalion,
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
(Princess Louises’s)

 accolade 51st Highland Regiment accolade 51st Highland, 7th Battalion
The Royal Regiment of Scotland
 
 
4th (V) Battalion,
The Parachute Regiment

10th (V) Battalion,
The Parachute Regiment		 accolade 4th (V) Battalion,
The Parachute Regiment		 accolade 4th Battalion,
The Parachute Regiment
 
 
The London Regiment (V)

4th (V) Battalion,
The Royal Green Jackets		 accolade The London Regiment (V) accolade The London Regiment

Green Jackets elements become part of
7th Battalion,
The Rifles
 
 
21st Special Air Service Regiment (Artists) (V) 21st Special Air Service Regiment (Artists) (V) 21st Special Air Service Regiment (Artists) (R)
 
 
23rd Special Air Service Regiment (V) 23rd Special Air Service Regiment (V) 23rd Special Air Service Regiment (R)
 

The Territorial Army Battalions in 2007

The Army Reserve Battalions in 2023

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2023-08-13