Monmouthshire Regiment
Dates | Locations | Higher Formation/Remarks |
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. | 2nd Battalion, The Monmouthshire Regiment | . |
1947.04.01 | Reconstituted in TA with HQ at Pontypool, and concurrently amalgamated with duplicate 4th Battalion, now the sole infantry battalion for Monmouthshire and Brecknockshire | . |
. | A Company at Cwmbran | . |
. | B Company at Blaenavon | . |
. | C Company at Crumlin | . |
. | D Company at Monmouth | . |
1967.04.01 | Disbanded and concurrently reconstituted as two units: | . |
. | B Company (South Wales Borderers), Welsh Volunteers, in TAVR II at Newport | . |
. | The Monmouthshire (Territorial) Battalion, The South Wales Borderers, in TAVR III with HQ at Newport | . |
. | 1st Monmouthshire Company at Newport | . |
. | 2nd Monmouthshire Company at Cwmcarn | . |
. | 3rd Monmouthshire Company at Abertillery | . |
1969.01.01 | TAVR III element reduced to cadre as The Monmouthshire Battalion, The South Wales Borderers at Newport, sponsored by Welsh Volunteers | . |
1969.06.11 | Transferred to the corps of The Royal Regiment of Wales | . |
<1971.03.01> | Cadre redesignated 3rd (Monmouthshire) Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Wales | . |
1971.04.01 | Companies reorganised with no further explicit Monmouthshire designation: | . |
. | A Company 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) at Abertillery with plns at Blackwood and Cwmcarn, newly raised | . |
. | B Company 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) at Newport and Pontypool, redesignation of B Company Welsh Volunteers and cadre The Monmouthshire Battalion | . |
. | Cadre also formed detachment 211 (South Wales) Lt AD Battery RA (V) | . |
1993.10.10 | B (Rorke's Drift) Company, 2nd (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) formed at Cefn Fforest with Pln at Pontypool, by amalgamation of A Company and B Company 3rd Battalion | . |
1999.07.01 | 2nd (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Wales amalgamated with 3rd (V) Bn, The Royal Welch Fusiliers, to form The Royal Welsh Regiment with no remaining presence in Monmouthshire | . |
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. | 638th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA (Brecknock) | . |
1947.04.01 | Reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Brecon | . |
1955.03.10 | Amalgamated with parent 637 HAA Regt (3rd Bn The Monmouthshire Regiment), to form 638th (Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA | . |
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. | 603rd (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA (1st (Rifle) Bn The Monmouthshire Regiment) | . |
1947.04.01 | Reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Newport | . |
1955.03.10 | Reduced to P (1st Monmouthshire) Battery, 283rd Field Regiment, RA | . |
1961.05.01 | Redesignated R (1st Monmouthshire) Battery, 282nd (Glamorgan/Monmouth) Field Regiment, RA | . |
1967.04.01 | Battery disbanded and concurrently reconstituted at Newport as a single troop in TAVR II, D (Monmouthshire) Troop, 211 (South Wales) Battery, 104th Light Air Defence Regiment, RA | . |
1992.05 | D Troop disbanded and Monmouthshire Rifles lineage discontinued | . |
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