Royal Berkshire Regiment
Dates | Locations | Higher Formation/Remarks |
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. | 4th/6th Battalion, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) | . |
1947.01.01 | Reconstituted in TA with HQ at Reading, and concurrently amalgamated with duplicate 6th Battalion | 128 Infantry Brigade |
. | A Company at Newbury | . |
. | B Company at Wantage | . |
. | C Company at Windsor | . |
. | D Company at Wokingham | . |
1959.06.09 | Tranferred to the corps of The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) without change of title | . |
1967.04.01 | Disbanded and concurrently reconstituted as: | . |
. | D Company (Berkshire), Wessex Volunteers in TAVR II at Reading | . |
. | The Royal Berkshire Territorials in TAVR III with HQ and three specialist plns at Reading | . |
. | A Company (Berkshire Yeomanry) at Windsor, successor to The Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons RAC | . |
. | B Company (Berkshire Artillery) at Reading, successor to R Bty, 299 (Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars and Berkshire) Field Regt RA | . |
. | C Company (Royal Berkshire) at Newbury, successor to 4th/6th Bn The Royal Berkshire Regt (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) | . |
1969.04.01 | TAVR III element reduced to cadre as The Royal Berkshire Territorials at Reading, sponsored by 71 Signal Regiment (V), less A Company converted as 94 (Berkshire Yeomanry) Signal Squadron (V) | . |
1971.04.01 | Reorganised as parts of three companies: 2nd Battalion, Wessex Volunteers formed | . |
. | D Company, 1st Battalion, Wessex Volunteers at Reading, with new pln at Swindon [Wilts.], omitting Berkshire subtitle | . |
. | HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, Wessex Volunteers at Reading, newly formed | . |
. | C (Royal Berkshire) Company 2nd Battalion, Wessex Volunteers at Maidenhead, Slough [Bucks] and Basingstoke [Hants], from cadre The Royal Berkshire Territorials | . |
1972.03.30 | Wessex Volunteers redesignated The Wessex Regiment | . |
1975.04.01 | Berkshire elements consolidated in 2nd Battalion, The Wessex Regiment, HQ at Brock Barracks, Reading | . |
. | HQ Company at Reading | . |
. | C (Royal Berkshire) Company at Maidenhead, Slough [Bucks]and Basingstoke [Hants] | . |
. | D Company at Reading (pln at Swindon [Wilts]), transferred from 1st Bn | . |
1986 | Swindon pln separated to form new [Wiltshire] B Company | . |
1990.12 | C Company formed at Newbury in 1st Bn, The Wessex Regiment | . |
1992.04.01 | C Coy at Maidenhead consolidated at Slough [Bucks], losing its Berkshire connection, and remaining Berkshire elements again consolidated in 2nd Battalion, The Wessex Regiment HQ at Brock Barracks, Reading | . |
. | HQ Company at Reading | . |
. | ? Company at Newbury, transferred from 1st Battalion | . |
1995.10.06 | HQ (Berkshire) Company, 2nd (Volunteer) Battalion The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment | . |
1999.07.01 | [Berkshire Platoons], Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Company, The Royal Rifle Volunteers at Brock Barracks, Reading with Assault Pioneer Pln at Cinderford [Glos.], redesignation of HQ Coy 2nd Bn The Wessex Regiment (Newbury coy disbanded) | . |
2007.02 | Redesignated HQ Company, 7th Battalion, The Rifles at Reading | . |
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