The Light Infantry and Mercian Volunteers [UK]

Authors and Contributors this page: Wienand Drenth, T.F. Mills

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Page created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated 29.05.2006

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	The Light Infantry and Mercian Volunteers
	1971-1975
	United Kingdom


Titles & Lineage History & War Service Battle Honours Colours, Standards and Guidons	Badges and Uniforms Colonels Traditions Bibliography

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.

How to find information about individuals who served in this corps

Titles and Lineage

English County Index
Alphabetic Index of Titles


	1971.04.01	The Light Infantry and Mercian Volunteers formed with HQ at Wolverhampton from cadres of former TAVR III battalions in the Midlands:
		A (Worcestershire Regiment) Company at Worcester, formed from cadre The Worcestershire Regt B (5th/6th Battalion Staffordshire Regiment) Company at Stoke-on-Trent, formed from cadre 5th/6th Bn The Staffordshire Regt C (King's Shropshire Light Infantry) Company at Wellington, formed from cadre The King's Shropshire and Herefordshire Light Infantry D (Herefordshire Light Infantry) Company at Ross-on-Wye, formed from cadre The King's Shropshire and Herefordshire Light Infantry E Company at Walsall, formed originally as a platoon, but expanded to a company
	1975.04.01	HQ disbanded and battalion broken up: A Coy at Worcester, B Coy at Stoke and E Coy at Walsall redesignated as A Coy, B Coy and D Coy respectively of 2nd Battalion, Mercian Volunteers; C Coy at Wellington redesignated as E Coy, 5th Battalion, The Light Infantry (Volunteers); D Coy at Ross-on-Wye redesignated as D Coy 6th Battalion, The Light Infantry (Volunteers)

History (Links) & War Service

Introduction to Volunteers


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Battle Honours

Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

Colours, Standards and Guidons

Introduction to Colours


	Record of Colours:

Uniforms and Badges

Badges:

Uniform:

Honorary Colonels

Index of Royal Colonels




	*Note:* for Deputy Honorary Colonels, 1971-72, see the constituent companies.

Traditions


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Bibliography

How To Find Books