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Wienand
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created 1 November 1999. Corrected and updated
24.05.2006
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2nd Battalion,
The Wessex Regiment
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1971-1995
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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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1971.04.01 |
2nd Battalion, Wessex Volunteers
formed in TAVR II with HQ at Brock Barracks, Reading,
from cadres of former TAVR III units:
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1972.03.30 |
2nd Battalion, The Wessex Regiment (Volunteers)
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companies
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1975.04.01 |
D Coy at Poole redesignated
D Company 1st Battalion;
new D Company formed at Reading and Swindon by redesignation
D Coy 1st Battalion
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1984 |
E (HSF)
Company formed at Reading, Maidenhead,
Winchester and Portsmouth
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1986 |
companies reorganised: B Coy
at Bletchley disbanded; new B Company
at Winchester, Southampton and Newport, IOW, formed by transfer
of B Company 1st Battalion;
Swindon pln of D Coy transferred as nucleus to form
B Coy 1st Battalion
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1992.04.01 |
reorganised (completed 9 Sept. 1992) in three
rifle company order of battle: A Coy and B Coy amalgamated
to form C Company 6th/7th
(Volunteer) Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment;
E (HSF) Coy disbanded; D Coy amalgamated?
with HQ Coy?
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- HQ Company at Reading
- ? Company formed at Swindon by transfer
B Company 1st Battalion
- ? Company formed at Newbury by transfer
C Company 1st Battalion
- C Company concentrated at Slough
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1993.04.01 |
B Coy
absorbed 245 Squadron, 155
(Wessex) Regiment, RCT |
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1995.10.06 |
amalgamated with 1st
Battalion to form 2nd
(Volunteer) Battalion The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire
Regiment, less
C Coy converted as D (Berkshire
Yeomanry) Squadron, The
Royal Yeomanry |
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see also parent regiment] |
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Honorary Colonel: |
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1971.04.01 |
Capt. (Hon. Col.) William James (Harris),
6th Earl of Malmesbury, TD, DL [HM
Lt Hampshire] |
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1973.11.18 |
vacant |
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1974.05.01 |
Col. (Hon. Brig.) Arthur Valerian (Wellesley),
8th Duke of Wellington, KG, LVO, OBE, MC [also Col.-in-Chief,
DWR] |
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1980.05.01 |
Brig. John Briton Oldfield, OBE, DL |
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1983.04.29 |
Lt-Col. (Bt. Col.) The Hon. Gordon William
Nottage Palmer, OBE, TD, JP [also Col. Cmdt. Yeomanry,
Hon. Col. RYR; Berks&WD,
Westminster Dgns]
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1985.04.28 |
Lt-Col. Sir James Scott, Bt. |
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1990.10.24 |
Gen. Sir John Learmont, KCB, CBE
[continued 1995 in 2nd Bn RGBW] |
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Note: for Deputy Honorary
Colonels, 1971-72, see the constituent companies. |
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