Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 5 February 2002. Corrected and updated 07.08.2005
 
 
Mercian Brigade
 
United Kingdom 
 
    Titles & Lineage
    Units
     Insignia
 		  Commandant
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   Titles & Lineage
Index of Titles
1946.10.28 K Group
formed with Depot at Lichfield and ITC at Oswestry.
1948.07.14 Mercian Brigade
1967.04.01 all T.A. battalions reduced to Mercian Volunteers
1968.07.01 united with Welsh Brigade and Wessex Brigade, to form The Prince of Wales's Division
   Units
 
Regular Battalions:
  1st Bn, The Cheshire Regiment [1946-1968]
  2nd Bn, The Cheshire Regiment [1946-1948]
  1st Bn, The Worcestershire Regiment [1946-1968]
  2nd Bn, The Worcestershire Regiment [1946-1948]
  1st Bn, The South Staffordshire Regiment [1946-1959]
  2nd Bn, The South Staffordshire Regiment [1946-1948]
  1st Bn, The North Staffordshire Regiment [1946-1959]
  2nd Bn, The North Staffordshire Regiment [1946-1948]
  1st Bn, The Staffordshire Regiment [1959-1968]
1 1st Bn, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt) [1963-1968]
 
Territorial Battalions:
 
 
 
Notes:
  1. transferred 1 May 1963 from Forester Brigade
 
 
 
   Insignia
 

 
     
   Commandant
Representative Colonel:
Brig. Gerald Ernest Thubron, DSO, OBE [Staffordshire Regt]
1963? Brig. Donald Harley Nott, DSO, OBE, MC [Worcestershire Regt; to 1967]
1967
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