Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 5 February 2002. Corrected and updated 25.07.2005
 
 
  The Prince of Wales's Division
 
United Kingdom 
 
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1968.07.01 The Prince of Wales's Division
formed by union of the Mercian Brigade, Welsh Brigade, and Wessex Brigade
   Units
 
Regular Battalions:
4 1st Bn, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment [1968-2005]
1 1st Bn, The Cheshire Regiment [1968-present]
  1st Bn, The Royal Welch Fusiliers [1968-present]
  1st Bn, The South Wales Borderers [1968-1969]
2 1st Bn, The Gloucestershire Regiment [1968-1994]
  1st Bn, The Worcestershire Regiment [1968-1970]
2, 3 1st Bn, The Royal Hampshire Regiment [1968-1992]
1 1st Bn, The Staffordshire Regiment [1968-present]
  1st Bn, The Welch Regiment [1968-1969]
  1st Bn, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt) [1968-1970]
  1st Bn, The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regt (Berkshire and Wiltshire) [1968-1994]
  1st Bn, The Royal Regiment of Wales [1969-present]
  1st Bn, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment [1970-present]
4 1st Bn, The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment [1994-2005]
 
Territorial Battalions:
  1st Bn, The Wessex Regiment [1967-1995]
  1st Bn, Mercian Volunteers [1967-1988]
  Welsh Volunteers [1967-1971]
  The Light Infantry and Mercian Volunteers [1971-1975]
  2nd Bn, The Wessex Regiment [1971-1995]
  3rd Bn, The Royal Welch Fusiliers [1971-1999]
  3rd Bn, The Royal Regiment of Wales [1971-1993]
  4th Bn, The Royal Regiment of Wales [1971-1993]
  3rd Bn, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment [1971-1999]
  2nd Bn, Mercian Volunteers [1975-1988]
  4th Bn, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment [1987-1999]
  3rd Bn, The Cheshire Regiment [1988-1999]
  4th Bn, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment [1988-1993]
  3rd Bn, The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) [1988-1999]
  2nd Bn, The Royal Regiment of Wales [1993-1999]
  2nd Bn, The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment [1995-1999]
  The West Midlands Regiment [1999-present]
  The King's and Cheshire Regiment [1999-present]
  The Royal Welsh Regiment [1999-present]
 
Notes:
  1. amalgamation planned 1993 but rescinded
  2. amalgamation planned 1970 but rescinded
  3. transferred 1992 to The Queen's Division and amalgamated with The Queen's Regiment
  4. transferred 2005 to The Light Division
 
 
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   Colonel Commandant
   
  Colonel Commandant:
1968.01.01 Gen. Sir Charles Henry Pepys Harington, GCB, CBE, DSO, MC [also SAS, SASC]
1971.06.01 Lt-Gen. Sir Napier Crookenden, KCB, DSO, OBE
1974.06.01 Gen. Sir Anthony Heritage Farrar-Hockley, KCB, DSO, MBE, MC [also Col. Gloucestershire Regt; Col Cmdt. Para Regt]
1980.06.01 Maj-Gen. Lennox Alexander Hawkins Napier, CB, OBE, MC [also Col. R Regt of Wales]
1983.09.01 Maj-Gen. Colin Terry Shortis, CB, CBE
1988.12.01 Gen. Sir John Waters, KCB, CBE
1991.12.01 Gen. Sir John Finlay Willasey Wilsey, GCB, CBE, ADCGen. [also Col. Devonshire & Dorset Regt; Col. Cmdt. POW Div, ACC, RLC]
1994.06.21 Maj-Gen. Ian Lennox Freer, CB, CBE
1996.06.17 Maj-Gen. Bryan Hawkins Dutton, CB, CBE
  1999.02.01 Maj-Gen. Christopher Haslett Elliott, CBE [also Col. R Regt of Wales]
     
     
     
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