Warwickshire Regiment

Dates Locations Higher Formation/Remarks
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. 7th Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment .
1947.01.01 Reconstituted in the TA with HQ at Coventry .
. A Company at Coventry .
. B Company at Coventry .
. C Company at Warwick .
. D Company at Nuneaton .
1956.07.15 Absorbed 8th Battalion without change of title .
. A Company at ? .
. B Company at ? .
. C Company at ? .
. D Company at ? .
1961.05.01 Absorbed RHQ and P Bty of 442 LAA Regt RA and RHQ and R Bty of 443 LAA Regt RA without change of title .
. A Company at ? .
. B Company at ? .
. C Company at ? .
. D Company at ? .
1963.05.01 Redesignated 7th Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers .
1967.04.01 Disbanded and concurrently reconstituted as four companies: .
. HQ (Warwickshire) Company, Fusilier Volunteers in TAVR II at Coventry .
. B Company (The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers), Fusilier Volunteers in TAVR II at Coventry; soon moved to Sheldon .
. Q (Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers) Battery, The Warwickshire Regt RA (T) in TAVR III at ? .
. A (Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers) Squadron, The Queen's Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry (T), in TAVR III at Coventry .
1969.01.01 TAVR III elements reduced to cadres, and Fusiliers lineage there in discontinued .
1986.04.23 Fusilier Volunteers redesignated as 5th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers .
1986.04.01 A Company formed in 5th Bn at Sparkbrook from pln of B Coy .
1992.12 Re-organised as 5th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers .
. HQ at Coventry, now effectively an all-Warwickshire battalion, by removal of other companies .
. HQ Company at Coventry .
. A Company at Sparkbrook .
. B Company at Sheldon .
. C Company at Shirley, Solihull, formed 16 Nov 1992 at Shirley, Solihull, by redesignation of C Company, 4th Bn, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regt (which had been newly raised 1988) .
1997.04.23 Battalion redesignated 5th (Warwickshire) Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (V) .
1999.07.01 Reduced to A (Fusilier) Company, The West Midlands Regiment at Sheldon, Birmingham with Pln at Coventry, amalgamation of HQ Coy and B Coy, 5th Bn, The Royal Regt of Fusiliers (A Coy and C Coy disbanded) (5th Bn RRF amalgamated with 5th Bn, The Light Infantry (V) and 3rd (V) Bn, The Staffordshire Regt) .
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. 2/7th Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment  .
1947.01.01 Reconstituted in the TA with HQ at Coventry .
1950.06.06 Re-organised as artillery and redesignated 623rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA (Warwick) .
1950.06.30 Absorbed 522 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA without change of title .
1955.03.10 Amalgamated with 495 (M) HAA Regt RA (Birmingham) to form 443 (Warwickshire) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA .
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