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Authors
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Wienand
Drenth, T.F. Mills |
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Page
created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated
12.10.2005
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1st Battalion,
The Wessex Regiment
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1967-1995
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United
Kingdom
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Note:
This
is a battalion history of the part-time reserves, which are normally
liable for full-time active service only in an emergency. See the
main regimental page(s) as linked below for more information.
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1967.04.01 |
Wessex Volunteers
formed in TAVR II with HQ at Exeter, and companies
serving as successors to former TA battalions in the Wessex
Brigade: |
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1970 |
E
Company (Devon) formed at Exeter with
Plns at Plymouth and Barnstaple by reorganisation HQ Coy; new HQ
Company formed at Trowbridge from A Coy The
Royal Wiltshire Territorials |
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1971.04.01 |
1st Battalion, Wessex Volunteers
HQ at Trowbridge; redesignated on formation of
2nd Battalion
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1971 |
company
subtitles omitted |
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1972.03.30 |
1st Battalion,
The Wessex Regiment (Rifle Volunteers) |
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1973 |
HQ
and HQ Coy moved to Devizes |
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1975.04.01 |
companies reorganised: D
Coy at Reading and Swindon transferred as D Company
2nd Battalion
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- HQ Company at Devizes; by 1989 dets
at Gloucester, Andover and Cheltenham; by 1995 Mortar Pln at Andover,
Atk Pln at Stroud, Recce Pln at Cheltenham, Pioneer Pln at Cinderford
- A Company at Gloucester; by 1991 two
plns at Bristol
- B Company at Winchester
- C Company at Dorchester and Weymouth
- D (Queen's Own
Dorset Yeomanry) Company at Poole (det at Bournemouth),
redesignation of D Coy, 2nd Battalion
(plus a pln from C Company, 1st Bn)
- E Company at Exeter (plns at Plymouth
and Barnstaple)
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1986 |
B
Coy at Winchester redesignated B
Company 2nd Battalion; new B
Company formed at Swindon from elements D Coy 2nd
Battalion |
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1987.10.12 |
E
Coy expanded to form HQ Company
and A Company, 4th Bn, The Devonshire
and Dorset Regiment |
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1990.12 |
C
Coy at Dorchester transferred as C
Company, 4th Bn, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment;
new C Company formed at Newbury by transfer of '?' Coy
2nd Battalion |
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1992.06 |
battalion
reduced to three rifle company order of battle: D
Coy at Poole transferred as D Company 4th
Bn, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment; B Coy at
Swindon and C Coy at Newbury transferred to 2nd
Battalion; battalion now consisted solely of Gloucestershire and
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- HQ Company at Devizes
- A Company at
Gloucester
- B Company at Bristol, formed (effective
1 Apr. 1995) from Bristol plns of A Company and 245 Ambulance
Sqn 155 Transport Regt
RCT
- C Company at Cheltenham and Tewkesbury,
formed (effective 1 Apr. 1995) from existing elements
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1995.10.06 |
amalgamated
with 2nd Battalion to form
2nd (V) Bn, The Royal Gloucestershire,
Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment |
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History: |
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Deployment and War Service of Units: |
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Biography
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see also parent regiment] |
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Record of Colours: |
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1967.04.01 |
Lt-Col. (Bt. Col.) Sir Joseph William Weld,
OBE, TD, JP [Lord Lt. of Dorset] |
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1970.11.01 |
Cod. William Quincey Roberts, CBE, DSO,
MVO, TD, DL |
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1975.11.01 |
Maj-Gen. G.C.A. Gilbert, CB, MC |
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1981.11.01 |
Maj-Gen. Michael John Hatley Walsh, CB,
DSO |
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Col. M. S. Lee-Browne, CBE, TD, DL [to
1995] |
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Motto: |
Their land to
defend |
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