Infantry Regular Territorial Battalions 2TA/Hostilities only Postwar

Regiment Battalions
Foot Guards
Grenadier Guards 1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
Coldstream 1st Battalion
Guards 2nd Battalion
Scots Guards 1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
Irish Guards 1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
Welsh Guards 1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
Line Infantry (In
order of
precedence)
Royal Scots 1st Battalion 4th/5th (Queen's 11th (Home 1st (Amalgamated
(Lothian 2nd Battalion Edinburgh Rifles) Defence) (Disbanded with the
Regiment) 3rd Battalion Battalion (52nd in 1940) remaining five
(Supplementary Searchlight 12th (Disbanded in Scottish infantry
Reserve) Regiment (Queen's 1942) regiments, to form
Edinburgh, Royal 30th (Redesignation the Royal
Scots)) of 10th (Home Regiment of
7th/9th Defence) Battalion, Scotland, March
(Highlanders) Disbanded in 1943) 2006)
Battalion, Leith 2nd (Disbanded
8th (Lothians and February 1949)
Peebleshire) 3rd (Disbanded
Battalion, Leith 1953)
14th (West Lothian, 7th/9th
Royal Scots) Light (Highlanders)
Anti-Aircraft (Absorbed
Regiment, Royal duplicate 8th
Artillery, Edinburgh Battalion, April
10th (Home 1961, and
Defence) renumbered
8th/9th Battalion
Disbanded 1967,
as two separate
companies: A
Company, 52nd
Lowland
Volunteers and A
Company, The
Royal Scots and
Cameronians
Territorials)
 8th (Lothians and
Peebleshire)
(Amalgamated
with 7/9th
Battalion, to form
8th/9th Battalion,
April 1961)
Queen's Royal 1st Battalion 1/5th Battalion 12th (Home 1st (Amalgamated
Regiment (West 2nd Battalion 1/6th (Bermondsey) Defence) with 1st East
Surrey) 3rd Battalion Battalion (Amalgamated with Surreys to form
(Supplementary 1/7th (Southwark) 10th (Home the 1st Battalion,
Reserve) Battalion Defence) Battalion Queen's Royal
2/5th of the Middlesex Surrey Regiment,
2/6th (Bermondsey) Regiment, forming 1959)
2/7th (Southwark) 30th Battalion, The 2nd (Disbanded,
11th (Home Middlesex 1948)
Defence) Battalion Regiment, 24 July 3rd (Disbanded,
1941) 1953)
14th (Converted into 5th (Amalgamated
99th Light Anti- with 565 (Surrey)
Aircraft Regiment, LAA Regiment,
Royal Artillery, 1 Royal Artillery, and
December 1941) 6th (Bermondsey)
15th (redesignation Battalion, forming
of 50th (Holding) 3rd Battalion, The
Battalion, Queen's Royal
Disbanded, 4 Surrey Regiment,
December 1943) 1 May 1961)
20th (from 5th 6th (Bermondsey)
Battalion Scots (Amalgamated
Guards, Disbanded, with 565 LAA
3 May 1940) Regiment, Royal
30th (redesignation Artillery, and 5th
of 11th Battalion, Battalion, forming
Absorbed into 30th 3rd Battalion, The
Battalion, The Queen's Royal
Middlesex Surrey Regiment,
Regiment, October 1 May 1961)
1945) 7th (Southwark)
31st (Disbanded, 15 (Transferred to the
May 1946) Royal Artillery, as
50th (Holding) 622nd Heavy Anti-
(Redesignated as Aircraft Regiment
15th Battalion, 9 (7th Battalion The
October 1940) Queen's Royal
70th (Young Regiment), 1 April
Soldiers) (From two 1947)
companies of 11th
 (Home Service)
Battalion, Converted
to 17th PTC, 1942)
Buffs (Royal East 1st Battalion 4th Battalion 7th (Converted to 1st (Amalgamated
Kent Regiment) 2nd Battalion 5th (The Weald of 141st Regiment with 2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion Kent) Battalion Royal Armoured on the 23
(Supplementary 6th (Home Defence) Corps, in November September 1949,
Reserve) Battalion 1941) without a change
8th (from a cadre of in title)
The Duke of 2nd
Cornwall's Light (Amalgamated
Infantry) (Converted with 1st Battalion
to 9th Medium on the 23
Regiment, Royal September 1949)
Artillery in 4th (Redesignated
November 1942) the 4th/5th
9th (from a cadre of Battalion on 1
the January 1947)
Northamptonshire 5th (Redesignated
Regiment) the 4th/5th
(Disbanded 1946) Battalion on 1
10th (Disbanded in January 1947)
October 1943)
11th (Converted to
89th Light Anti-
Aircraft Regiment,
Royal Artillery in
November 1940)
30th (Disbanded in
March 1943)
King's Own Royal 1st Battalion 5th Battalion (1900, 6th Battalion 1st (Amalgamated
Regiment 2nd Battalion Converted to 107th (February 1940, with 2nd Battalion
(Lancaster) 3rd Battalion Regiment (King's Disbanded, in July on the 1 April
(Supplementary Own), Royal 1944) 1949, without a
Reserve) Armoured Corps) 7th Battalion change in title)
10th (Home (February 1940, 2nd
Defence) Disbanded, in 1947) (Amalgamated
8th (February 1940, with 1st Battalion
Merge with the 1st on the 1 April
Battalion, in January 1949)
1944) 5th (Reconstituted
9th (February 1940, from the 107th
Converted to 90th Training Regiment,
Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured
Royal Artillery, in Corps, in January
November 1941) 1947)
10th (September 1st (Amalgamated
1940, Converted to with 1st Battalion,
 151st Regiment, Border Regiment,
Royal Armoured to form 1st
Corps) Battalion, King's
50th (Holding) Own Royal Border
(Lancaster June Regiment)
1940, Became the 5th (Transferred to
10th Battalion, in the King's Own
September 1940) Royal Border
Regiment, without
a change in title)
Royal 1st Battalion 4th Battalion 8th Battalion (4th)
Northumberland 2nd Battalion 5th Battalion as 9th Battalion (7th)
Fusiliers 638th Regiment,
Royal Artillery was
reformed as 588th
Light Anti-aircraft
Regiment, Royal
Artillery
6th (City) Battalion
(43rd Royal Tank
Regiment)?
10th (Home
Defence) Battalion
Royal 1st Battalion 7th Battalion,
Warwickshire 2nd Battalion Coventry
Regiment 8th Battalion,
Birmingham
10th (Home
Defence) Battalion
Royal Fusiliers 1st Battalion 8th (1st City of
(City of London 2nd Battalion London) Battalion,
Regiment) Bloomsbury
9th (1st City of
London) Battalion,
Balham
11th Battalion 2TA,
Fusilier Hall, SW1
12th Battalion 2TA,
Balham
10th (Home
Defence) Battalion
King's Regiment 1st Battalion 4th Battalion 11th (July 1940, 1st (Amalgamated
(Liverpool) 2nd Battalion 5th Battalion (1859, Became the 152nd with 1st
3rd Battalion See Post-World War Regiment Royal Manchesters to
(Supplementary II) Armoured Corps, form the 1st
Reserve) 8th (Liverpool Irish) November 1941) Battalion, The
4th Battalion Battalion 12th (July 1940, King's Regiment
 (Supplementary (Authorised March Transferred to the (Manchester and
Reserve) 1939; reformed Royal Artillery, Liverpool),
October 1939, November 1941 and September 1958)
Effectively became 101st Light 2nd
disbanded in August Anti-Aircraft (Amalgamated
1944; officially Regiment, Royal with 1st King's,
placed in Artillery) September 1948)
"suspended 13th (June 1940, 3rd (Disbanded
animation" on 22 Burma (Chindits), 1953)
November 1944; Disbanded 1945) 4th (Disbanded
reconstituted on 1 14th (Isle of Man, 1953)
January 1947 as October 1940, from 5th (Retained its
626th Heavy Anti- 50th (Holding) Bn, identity until
Aircraft Regiment, Isle of Man, 1967, when it
RA) Transferred to the became a
9th (Authorised Royal Artillery, company of the
March 1939; February 1942 and Lancastrian
reformed May 1939 became 184th Field Volunteers)
as duplicate of 5th Regiment, Royal
King's, Placed in Artillery)
"suspended 15th (Home
animation" on 21 Defence) (Formerly
March 1946; re- the 2/10th King's,
amalgamated with September 1940,
5th King's 1 January Britain, Disbanded
1947) 1941)
10th (Home 30th (Home
Defence) Battalion Defence) (Formerly
(December 1939, the 10th King's,
from National Britain, Disbanded
Defence March 1943)
Companies, 50th (Holding)
Redesignated 30th (Liverpool, 1939,
(Home Defence) Britain, Became
Battalion November 14th Bn October
1940) 1940)
70th (Young
Soldiers) (Formed
from YS companies
of 10th (HD) Bn
King's and 8th (HD)
Bn Cheshire
Regiment,
September 1940,
Britain, Disbanded
September 1943)
Norfolk Regiment - 1st Battalion 4th Battalion 8th Battalion
Royal title in 1935 2nd Battalion 5th Battalion 9th Battalion
as part of Silver 3rd Battalion 6th (City of 50th (Holding)
Jubilee (Supplementary Norwich) Battalion 70th (Young
Reserve) 7th (duplicate of Soldiers)
5th) Battalion
The Lincolnshire 1st Battalion 4th Battalion 7th Battalion
Regiment - gained 2nd Battalion 46th (The converted to 102nd
Royal title in 1946 3rd Battalion Lincolnshire Light Anti-Aircraft
for World War II (Supplementary Regiment) Anti- Regiment, Royal
service Reserve) Aircraft Battalion, Artillery
Royal Engineers, 8th Battalion
Grimsby (5th converted to 101st
Battalion) Anti-Tank Regiment,
6th Battalion Royal Artillery
50th (Holding)

Devonshire 1st Battalion 4th Battalion (1853) 12th (July 1940 2nd (Disbanded, in
Regiment 2nd Battalion 5th (Prince of from 50th (Holding) June 1948)
3rd Battalion Wales's) Battalion Battalion, 5th (Prince of
(Supplementary (1908, Converted to Disbanded, in Wales's)
Reserve) 86th Anti-Tank November 1945) (Reformed, in
Regiment, Royal 30th (December January 1947.
Artillery, in 1941) 1941 Later
6th (1860, from 10th Battalion, amalgamated with
Converted to 628th Disbanded, in 1945) the 4th Battalion,
Heavy Regiment, 50th (Holding) in May 1950.)
Royal Artillery, in (1940, Became 12th 1st (Amalgamated
January 1947) Battalion, in 1940) with 1st Battalion,
7th (Haytor) Dorset Regiment
Battalion (1939 to form 1st
as a duplicate of 5th Battalion,
(Prince of Wales's) Devonshire and
Battalion, Dorset Regiment)
Converted to 87th 4th (Transferred to
Anti-Tank Regiment, the Devonshire
Royal Artillery, in and Dorset
1941) Regiment without
8th (1939 a change in title)
as a duplicate of 4th
Battalion,
Disbanded, in 1947)
9th (1939
as a duplicate of 6th
Battalion,
Disbanded, in
August 1942)
10th (Home
Defence) Battalion
(November 1939
 from No. 80 Group,
National Defence
Companies, Become
30th Battalion, in
December 1941)
11th (July 1940
from Regimental
Depot, Disbanded,
in September 1943)

Suffolk Regiment 1st Battalion 4th Battalion 7th Battalion

2nd Battalion 5th Battalion converted to 142nd
3rd Battalion Regiment Royal
(Supplementary Armoured Corps
Reserve) 50th (Holding)
Battalion re-
designated as the
8th Battalion
6th, 9th, 30th, 31st
and 70th (Young
Soldiers) Battalions
Prince Albert's 1st Battalion 4th Battalion, Prince 10th Battalion,
(Somersetshire 2nd Battalion Albert's Somerset raised in 1940,
Light Infantry) 3rd Battalion Light Infantry, Bath which was
Somerset Light (Supplementary 5th Battalion, Prince converted in 1942
Infantry (Prince Reserve) Albert's Somerset into the 7th
Albert's) Light Infantry, Parachute Battalion
Taunton (duplicate 30th Battalion
of the 5th)
6th Battalion, Prince
Albert's Somerset
Light Infantry, Wells
7th Battalion, Prince
Albert's Somerset
Light Infantry,
Bridgewater
Prince of Wales's 1st Battalion 1/5th Battalion, The
Own (West 2nd Battalion Prince of Wales's
Yorkshire 3rd Battalion Own West Yorkshire
Regiment) (Supplementary Regiment, York
West Yorkshire Reserve) 2/5th Battalion, The
Regiment (Prince Prince of Wales's
of Wales's Own) Own West Yorkshire
Regiment, York
66th (Leeds Rifles)
(West Yorkshire
Regiment) Heavy
 Anti-Aircraft
Regiment, Royal
Artillery, Leeds (8th
(Leeds Rifles)
Battalion)
49th (The West
Yorkshire Regiment)
Anti-Aircraft
Battalion, Royal
Engineers, Bradford
(6th Battalion
Bradford Rifles)
7th (Leeds Rifles)
Battalion converted
to 45th (Leeds
Rifles) Bn, Royal
Tank Regiment. In
June 1939, the
company at Morley
was split off to form
the cadre for a
duplicate unit, the
51st (Leeds Rifles)
Bn, Royal Tank
Regiment.

East Yorkshire 1st Battalion 4th Battalion, The 6th (Home Defence)
Regiment 2nd Battalion Duke of York's Own Battalion
3rd Battalion East Yorkshire redesignated as the
(Supplementary Regiment, Kingston 30th Battalion in
Reserve) upon Hull December 1941 and
disbanded in
5th Battalion, The September 1943.
Duke of York's Own
East Yorkshire The 7th Battalion
Regiment, Kingston was formed in 1940
upon Hull (duplicate disbanded in
of the 4th) October 1944,
having never left the
UK.

The 50th (Holding)

Battalion was
formed in May 1940
redesignated as the
8th battalion and
the battalion was
then converted to
 115 LAA Regiment,
RA
Bedfordshire and 1st Battalion 5th Battalion (See 2/7th (Home 1st (Amalgamated
Hertfordshire 2nd Battalion Post-World War II) Defence) with the 2nd
Regiment 3rd Battalion 6th Battalion (Disbanded? in Battalion on 18
(Supplementary (Disbanded in 1947) 1940) October 1948,
Reserve) 7th (Home Defence) 8th (Disbanded? in without a change
Battalion 1942) in title)
(Disbanded? in 9th (Disbanded in (Amalgamated
1941) 1946) with the 1st
10th (Home Battalion, The
Defence) Essex Regiment to
(Redesignated as form 1st Battalion,
30th Battalion in 3rd East Anglian
1941) Regiment)
30th (Redesignation 2nd
of 10th (Home (Amalgamated
Defence) Battalion, with the 1st
Disbanded 1946) Battalion on 18
50th (Holding) October 1948)
(Redesignated as the 5th (Redesignated
? Battalion, 1940) as The
70th (Young Soldier) Bedfordshire
(Disbanded 1943) Regiment (TA),
71st (Young Soldier) before merging
(Disbanded 1943) with the 1st
Battalion, The
Hertfordshire
Regiment in 1961,
to form The
Bedfordshire and
Hertfordshire
Regiment (TA))
Leicestershire 1st Battalion 1/5th Battalion, The 7th Battalion
Regiment - gained 2nd Battalion Leicestershire 8th Battalion
Royal title in 1946 3rd Battalion Regiment, Leicester
for World War II (Supplementary 2/5th Battalion, The
service Reserve) Leicestershire
Royal Regiment, Leicester
Leicestershire 44th (The
Regiment Leicestershire
Regiment) Anti-
Aircraft Battalion,
Royal Engineers,
Leicester (4th
Leicester Town
Rifles Battalion)
The Royal Irish n/a n/a n/a n/a
Regiment
Princess of 1st Battalion 4th Battalion, 8th Battalion was
Wales's Own 2nd Battalion Alexandra, Princess formed for home
(Yorkshire 3rd Battalion of Wales's Own defence.[38]
Regiment) (Supplementary (North) Yorkshire Originally raised in
The Green Reserve) Regiment (Green August–September
Howards Howards), 1939, in the
(Alexandra, Richmond Middlesbrough area,
Princess of 5th Battalion, from the Home
Wales's Own Alexandra, Princess Guard and those
Yorkshire of Wales's Own unfit to serve
Regiment) (North) Yorkshire overseas. The 8th
Regiment (Green and 13th were
Howards), amalgamated in
Scarborough June 1941, in
6th Battalion, September 1943 it
Alexandra, Princess was classed as a
of Wales's Own Garrison Battalion,
(North) Yorkshire renamed as the 30th
Regiment (Green Battalion and went
Howards), to Italy, and French
Richmond North Africa (Algiers
7th Battalion, and Tunisia). It was
Alexandra, Princess disbanded after six
of Wales's Own years service.[39]
(North) Yorkshire
Regiment (Green 9th Battalion was
Howards), formed for garrison
Scarborough duty (and later
converted into the
108th Light Anti-
Aircraft Regiment,
Royal Artillery,
serving with the
52nd (Lowland)
Infantry Division
from March 1942)
[40]

10th Battalion was

formed by the
conversion of the
2nd East Riding
Yeomanry (a war-
time duplicate of
this yeomanry unit)
in 1940 and
subsequently
becoming the 12th
(Yorkshire)
Parachute Battalion
attached to the 5th
Parachute Brigade
and part of the 6th
Airborne Division.
[41]

11th Battalion

12th Battalion was

converted to armour
as the 161st
Regiment Royal
Armoured Corps,
but retained its
Green Howards cap
badge on the black
beret of the Royal
Armoured Corps as
did all other infantry
units converted in
the same way.[43] In
October 1943 it was
then converted
again, this time to
the reconnaissance
role, as 161st (Green
Howards) Regiment
in the
Reconnaissance
Corps. It never went
into action as a
regiment, but
provided a
replacement
squadron to the
43rd (Wessex)
Reconnaissance
Regiment, which
had suffered heavy
losses when its
transport was sunk
on the way to
France to fight in the
Battle of Normandy.
 [44]

13th Battalion
Lancashire 1st Battalion 1/5th Battalion, 2/5th Battalion, 5th Battalion
Fusiliers 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, Lancashire Fusiliers, 633 (6th Bn
3rd Battalion Bury Bury Lancashire
(Supplementary 1/6th Battalion, 2/6th Battalion, Fusiliers) Light AA
Reserve) Lancashire Fusiliers, Lancashire Fusiliers, Regiment, Royal
Rochdale Middleton Artillery
1/8th Battalion, 2/8th Battalion, 574th (7th Bn
Lancashire Fusiliers, Lancashire Fusiliers, Lancashire
Salford Kersal Fusiliers) (Mixed)
39th (The Lancashire Heavy AA
Fusiliers) Anti- Regiment, RA,
Aircraft Battalion, ('mixed' indicating
Royal Engineers, that members of
Salford (7th the Women's
Battalion) Royal Army Corps
9th (Service) were integrated
Battalion, converted into the unit)
to armour as 143rd 634 (8th Bn
Regiment Royal Lancashire
Armoured Corps, Fusiliers) Heavy
disbanded in 1943. AA Regiment, RA,
10th (Service) later renumbered
Battalion 310 HAA Rgt
11th (Service)
Battalion, originally
as the 50th
(Holding) Battalion
Royal Scots 1st Battalion 4th/5th Battalion,
Fusiliers 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots
3rd Battalion Fusiliers,
(Supplementary Kilmarnock
Reserve) 6th Battalion, The
Royal Scots
Fusiliers,
Kilmarnock
50th (Holding)
Battalion was raised
in late May 1940
and was later
redesignated the
11th Battalion
Cheshire Regiment 1st Battalion 4th (as a duplicate 1st (Placed in
2nd Battalion of 5th (Earl of suspended
3rd Battalion Chester's) Battalion, animation, in July
 (Supplementary 1939) 1948)
Reserve) 5th (Earl of 2nd (Renumbered
Chester's) as the 1st
(redesignation of Battalion, in July
4th/5th (Earl of 1948)
Chester's), 1921, 5th (Earl of
See Post-World War Chester's) (Placed
II) in suspended
6th (as a duplicate animation, in
of 7th Battalion, 1947)
1939, See Post- 6th (Disbanded, in
World War II) 1947)
7th Battalion (1860) 1st (Became 1st
8th (Home Defence) Battalion, Mercian
Battalion (30th Regiment in
(Home Defence) August 2007)
before 1941, 1939, 3rd (V) (Became B
Disbanded, in 1946) and D (Cheshire)
Companies, King's
and Cheshire
Regiment, in July
1999. Now A Coy,
4th Battalion Duke
of Lancaster's
Regiment and B
Coy, 4th Battalion
Mercian
Regiment.)
Royal Welsh 1st Battalion 4th (Denbigh) 8th (Denbighshire)
Fusiliers - restored 2nd Battalion Battalion, The Royal Battalion, The Royal
archaic spelling of 3rd Battalion Welch Fusiliers, Welch Fusiliers,
Welsh (Welch) in (Supplementary Wrexham Wrexham – from the
1921 Reserve) 6th (Carnarvon and 4th Bn
Angesley) Battalion, 9th
The Royal Welch (Caernarvonshire &
Fusiliers, Anglesey) Battalion,
Caernarfon The Royal Welch
7th (Merioneth and Fusiliers, Conwy –
Montgomery) from the 6th Bn
Battalion, The Royal 10th
Welch Fusiliers, (Merionethshire &
Newtown Montgomeryshire)
60th (Royal Welch Battalion, The Royal
Fusiliers) Anti-Tank Welch Fusiliers,
Regiment, Royal Newtown – from
Artillery, Flint (5th the 7th Bn,
(Flintshire) converted into the
Battalion) 6th (Royal Welch)
 Battalion, Parachute
Regiment
70th (Royal Welch
Fusiliers) Anti-Tank
Regiment, Royal
Artillery (TA), Mold –
from the 60th Rgt;
granted Royal Welch
Fusiliers subtitle in
1942)
11th (Home
Defence) Battalion
12th battalion
became 116th Light
Anti-Aircraft
Regiment, Royal
Artillery
South Wales 1st Battalion 4th 6th Battalion 1st Battalion,
Borderers 2nd Battalion (Brecknockshire) (formed 1940, South Wales
3rd Battalion Battalion transferred to Royal Borderers –
(Supplementary 5th (Home Defence) Armoured Corps as amalgamated with
Reserve) Battalion 158th Regiment 1st Battalion
(formed 1939 from Royal Armoured Welch Regiment
National Defence Corps 1942; to form Royal
Companies; reverted to infantry Regiment of Wales
converted to as 6th Battalion (24th/41st Foot) in
infantry 1941 as 1943 and served in 1969
30th Battalion) Burma) 2nd Battalion,
1st Brecknockshire 7th Battalion South Wales
Battalion, South (converted from Borderers –
Wales Borderers 50th (Holding) disbanded in 1948
(TA) (formed as Battalion 1940; Brecknockshire
duplicate of 3rd transferred to Royal Battalion, South
Battalion Artillery as 90th Wales Borderers –
Monmouths 1939) Light Anti-Aircraft converted into
Regiment 1941 and 638th (Brecknock)
Monmouthshire served with 1st Light Anti-Aircraft
Regiment Division in Tunisia Regiment, Royal
2nd Battalion, and Italy) Artillery in 1947
Monmouthshire 30th Battalion (TA) 2nd Battalion,
Regiment (converted from 5th Monmouthshire
3rd Battalion, (HD) Battalion 1941; Regiment –
Monmouthshire disbanded 1943) became the
Regiment 50th (Holding) Monmouthshire
4th Battalion, Battalion (formed Battalion
Monmouthshire 1940, converted to (Territorial) South
Regiment (TA) infantry as 7th Wales Borderers in
(formed as Battalion 1940) the Territorial and
 duplicate of 2nd Army Volunteer
Battalion 1939; Reserve in 1967;
joined by cadre of became part of
19 men from Cyprus the Welsh
and redesignated as Volunteers 1969
1st Battalion, South 3rd (Brecknock &
Wales Borderers Monmouthshire)
served in UK for Battalion,
remainder of war) Monmouthshire
Regiment –
converted into
637th Heavy Anti-
Aircraft Regiment,
Royal Artillery (3rd
Bn The
Monmouthshire
Regiment) in 1947
The King's Own 1st Battalion 4th (The Border)
Scottish Borderers 2nd Battalion Battalion, The King's
(Specialised Own Scottish
Infantry? Borderers,
Galashiels
5th (Dumfrieshire)
Battalion, The King's
Own Scottish
Borderers, Dumfries
6th (The Border),
The King's Own
Scottish Borderers,
Galashiels
7th (Galloway)
Battalion, The King's
Own Scottish
Borderers, Dumfries
The Cameronians 1st Battalion 6th (Lanarkshire) 12th (Disbanded, in 1st (Amalgamated
(Scottish Rifles) 2nd Battalion Battalion (See Post- 1943) with 2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion World War II) 13th (Home on the 19
(Supplementary 7th Battalion (See Defence) September 1949,
Reserve) Post-World War II) (Amalgamated with without a change
4th Battalion 9th (Disbanded, in 11th (Home in title)
(Supplementary August 1945) Defence) Battalion, 2nd
Reserve) 10th (Lanarkshire) to form 30th (Home (Amalgamated
(Amalgamated with Defence) Battalion, with 1st Battalion
6th (Lanarkshire) in 1941) on 19 September
Battalion, in January 30th (Home 1949)
1947) Defence) 6th (Lanarkshire)
11th (Home (Disbanded, in 1943) (Amalgamated
Defence) Battalion 50th (Holding) with 7th Battalion
 (Amalgamated with (Disbanded, in 1940) on 30 June 1950,
13th (Home to form 6th/7th
Defence) Battalion, Battalion)
to form 30th (Home 7th (Amalgamated
Defence) Battalion, with 6th
in 1941) (Lanarkshire)
Battalion on 30
June 1950, to form
6th/7th Battalion)
1st (Disbanded, on
14 May 1968)
6th/7th (Became D
Company (The
Cameronians
(Scottish Rifles)),
52nd Lowland
Volunteers, and B
Company (6th/7th
Cameronians
(Scottish Rifles)),
Royal Scots and
Cameronians
Territorials, on 1
April 1967)
Royal Inniskilling 1st Battalion 5th Battalion
Fusiliers 2nd Battalion 6th Battalion
3rd Battalion 70th (Young
(Supplementary Soldiers) Battalion
Reserve)
Gloucestershire 1st Battalion 66th (4th (City of 7th Battalion
Regiment 2nd Battalion Bristol) Battalion, 8th (Home Service)
3rd Battalion The Gloucestershire Battalion
(Supplementary Regiment) 9th Battalion
Reserve) Searchlight 10th Battalion,
Regiment, Royal converted to armour
Artillery, Bristol in 1942 and became
5th Battalion, The the 159th Regiment
Gloucestershire in the Royal
Regiment, Armoured Corps, it
Gloucester converted back to
7th Battalion, The infantry and
Gloucestershire reverted to the
Regiment, Stroud regiment's 10th
44th (6th Battalion, Battalion
Gloucestershire 50th (Holding)
Regiment) Royal Battalion, then 11th
Tank Regiment, Battalion, then
Bristol 118th Light Anti-
 50th (2/6th Aircraft Regiment,
Battalion Royal Artillery
Gloucestershire 70th (Young
Regiment) Royal Soldiers) Battalion
Tank Regiment,
Bristol
Worcestershire 1st Battalion 7th Battalion, The 11th Battalion,
Regiment 2nd Battalion Worcestershire disbanded, it was
3rd Battalion Regiment, renumbered the 1st
(Supplementary Kidderminster Battalion after 1st
Reserve) 8th Battalion, The Battalion has been
Worcestershire destroyed at Tobruk
Regiment, 50th (Holding)
Worcester Battalion,
9th Battalion, The redesignated 12th
Worcestershire Battalion and
Regiment, Evesham became a standard
10th Battalion, The infantry battalion,
Worcestershire converted into
Regiment, Evesham gunners of the Royal
Artillery, the
battalion was
transferred to the
Royal Artillery and
converted into the
179th Field
Regiment, Royal
Artillery
East Lancashire 1st Battalion 4th Battalion, The 6th (Home Defence)
Regiment 2nd Battalion East Lancashire Battalion,
3rd Battalion Regiment, renumbered 30th
(Supplementary Blackburn Battalion 1941.
Reserve) 5th Battalion, The 7th Battalion,
East Lancashire transferred to Royal
Regiment, Burnley Artillery and
2TA converted to 103rd
Light Anti-Aircraft
Regiment, Royal
Artillery, disbanded
March 1944.
50th (Holding)
Battalion,
renumbered 8th
Battalion, converted
to 144th Regiment
Royal Armoured
Corps in 1941 and
served in 33rd
 Armoured Brigade in
the Normandy
landings on 6 June
1944. The regiment
continued to wear
its East Lancashire
cap badge on the
black beret of the
RAC.[10] On 1
March 1945 144
RAC was
redesignated 4th
Royal Tank Regiment
to replace the
original 4th RTR,
which had been lost
at Tobruk in 1942.
East Surrey 1st Battalion 1/6th Battalion, The 8th Battalion
Regiment 2nd Battalion East Surrey 9th Battalion
3rd Battalion Regiment, Surbiton 10th Battalion
(Supplementary 2/6th Battalion, The 50th (Holding)
Reserve) East Surrey Battalion
Regiment, 70th (Young
Richmond Soldiers) Battalion
42nd (7th (23rd
London) Battalion,
The East Surrey
Regiment) Royal
Tank Regiment, St
John's Hill
48th (2/7th (23rd
London) Battalion,
The East Surrey
Regiment) Royal
Tank Regiment,
Clapham
Duke of Cornwall's 1st Battalion 4th Battalion, The 7th (Home Service)
Light Infantry 2nd Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Battalion, later to
3rd Battalion Light Infantry, Truro become the 30th
(Supplementary 5th Battalion, The -
Reserve) Duke of Cornwall's
Light Infantry, St
Austell
Duke of 1st Battalion 1/6th Battalion, The 8th Battalion was When the TA was
Wellington's (West 2nd Battalion Duke of raised in July 1940 reformed in 1947,
Riding Regiment) 3rd Battalion Wellington's West and in 1941 it was the 4th, 5th and
(Supplementary Riding Regiment, also converted to a 6th Battalions
Reserve) Scarborough tank unit becoming became the 382nd
1/7th Battalion, The 145th Regiment RAC (Duke of
Duke of (8DWR) Wellington's
Wellington's West 9th Battalion was Regiment) Anti-
Riding Regiment, also converted to Tank Regiment
Milnsbridge armour, becoming (later Medium
58th (4th Battalion 146th Regiment RAC Regiment), 578th
The Duke of (DWR) (5th Bn, The Duke
Wellington’s of Wellington's
Regiment) Anti-Tank Regiment) Heavy
Regiment, Royal Anti-Aircraft
Artillery, Bridlington Regiment, and
43rd (5th Duke of 673rd (Duke of
Wellington's Wellington's
Regiment) Anti- Regiment) Light
Aircraft Battalion, Anti-Aircraft
Royal Engineers, Regiment
Huddersfield respectively of the
2/6th Battalion, The Royal Artillery. In
Duke of 1955 the three
Wellington's West regiments merged
Riding Regiment, into the 382nd,
Scarborough each providing
2/7th Battalion, The one battery. In
Duke of 1957 some of the
Wellington's West 5th Bn battery
Riding Regiment, transferred to the
Milnsbridge 7th Bn (still in the
infantry role) and
formed the 5/7th
Bn, thereby
bringing together
both parts of the
former 2nd
Volunteer Bn.
Finally, in 1961,
the rest of 382 Rgt
converted to
infantry and
merged with the
5/7th Bn, bringing
together all four
Territorial
battalions of the
regiment as the
West Riding
Battalion, which in
1967 became part
 of the Yorkshire
Volunteers.
Border Regiment 1st Battalion 4th (Cumberland 9th (redesignation 1st (Amalgamated
2nd Battalion and Westmorland) of the 50th (Holding) with 2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion Battalion (See Post- Battalion, on the 28 October
(Supplementary World War II) Amalgamated with 1950, without a
Reserve) 5th (Cumberland) the 4th (Cumberland change in title)
Battalion and Westmorland) (Amalgamated
(Disbanded in 1947) Battalion, taking on with 1st Battalion,
6th (East the name of the The King's Own
Cumberland) latter on 1 Royal Regiment
(Soldiers drafted to December 1945) (Lancaster), to
one of the nine 30th (Disbanded? form 1st Battalion,
battalions making 1942) The King's Own
up the 15th 50th (Holding) Royal Border
(Scottish) Infantry (Redesignated as the Regiment)
Division, formally 9th Battalion in 2nd
disbanded in 1947) October 1940) (Amalgamated
7th (Cumberland) 70th (Young Soldier) with 1st Battalion
(Disbanded in 1947) (Disbanded 1943) on the 28 October
8th (Home Defence) 1950)
Battalion 4th (Cumberland
(Disbanded 1942) and Westmorland)
(Transferred to the
King's Own Royal
Border Regiment,
without a change
in title)
Royal Sussex 1st Battalion 4th Battalion, The 8th (Home Defence)
Regiment 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Battalion,
3rd Battalion Regiment, Horsham redesignated as the
(Supplementary 5th (Cinque Ports) 30th Battalion in
Reserve) Battalion, The Royal 1941 and it was
Sussex Regiment, disbanded in 1943
Hastings 9th Battalion, Royal
6th Battalion, The Sussex Regiment,
Royal Sussex converted to armour
Regiment, Worthing as the 160th
7th (Cinque Ports) Regiment Royal
Battalion, The Royal Armoured Corps and
Sussex Regiment, joined the 267th
Brighton, Indian Armoured
transferred to the Brigade, which
Royal Artillery and included other
converted into the infantry units
109th Light Anti- converted to
Aircraft Regiment, armour. As with all
Royal Artillery infantry units
 converted in this
way, they would still
have worn their
infantry capbadge
on the black beret of
the RAC. However, it
returned to the
infantry role in April
1943 and was sent
with the 72nd
Infantry Brigade to
fight in the Burma
Campaign with the
British 36th Infantry
Division, previously
36th Indian. The
battalion saw action
in the Arakan, was
airlifted into
Myitkyina and
fought its way to
Mandalay by April
1945
10th Battalion was
another hostilities-
only battalion also
raised in 1940 and
joined the 219th
Independent
Infantry Brigade
(Home), later the
203rd Brigade
Hampshire 1st Battalion 1/4th Battalion, The new 8th Battalion
Regiment - gained 2nd Battalion Hampshire was formed, shortly
Royal title in 1946 3rd Battalion Regiment, after the war began,
for World War II (Supplementary Winchester at Southampton in
service Reserve) 2/4th Battalion, The December 1939. It
Hampshire subsequently split
Regiment, into the 1/8th and
Southampton 2/8th Battalions,
5th Battalion, The before the 2/8th
Hampshire Battalion was
Regiment, renamed the 13th
Southampton Battalion, and then
7th Battalion, The both battalions were
Hampshire re-formed into the
Regiment, 8th Battalion again,
Bournemouth which was
6th Battalion (Duke subsequently
of Connaught's renumbered the
Own), Hampshire 30th Battalion and
Regiment was was disbanded in
converted into the September 1942
59th Anti-Tank 9th Battalion,
Regiment, Royal converted to armour
Artillery as the 157th
8th Battalion (Isle of Regiment Royal
Wight Rifles), Armoured Corps,
converted to 530th was broken up in
Princess Beatrice's without having seen
(Isle of Wight Rifles) active service
Coast Regiment, RA 10th Battalion,
transferred to the
Royal Armoured
Corps, becoming the
147th Regiment
Royal Armoured
Corps, serve with
distinction with 34th
Tank Brigade in the
North West Europe
campaign at
Normandy, Le Havre,
the Reichswald
Forest and
Operation Plunder
from 1944 to 1945
50th (Holding)
Battalion, which was
formed on the Isle
of Wight in June
1940, absorbed the
Royal Militia of the
Island of Jersey. The
Jersey Militia
subsequently
became the 11th
Battalion, whilst the
rest of the 50th
Battalion became
the 12th Battalion.
The 11th Battalion
stayed in the United
Kingdom as a
training battalion
until the war ended,
 first with the 209th
Brigade and later
with the 135th
Brigade, 45th
(Holding) Division.
The 12th Battalion
also stayed in the
United Kingdom,
with the 136th
Brigade, but was
disbanded in
September 1944
after sending a large
final draft to the 7th
Battalion serving in
North-west Europe
70th (Young
Soldiers) Battalion
was formed in
Southampton, but
soon moved to
Basingstoke. It was
raised for those
soldiers around the
age of 18 or 19 who
had volunteered for
the Army but were
not old enough to
be conscripted, the
age being 20 at the
time. However, the
battalion was
disbanded in July
1943 as the British
government
lowered the age of
conscription for the
British Armed Forces
from 20 to 18
South 1st Battalion 5th Battalion, The The 11th Battalion
Staffordshire 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire was raised in 1940
Regiment 3rd Battalion Regiment, Walsall and joined the
(Supplementary 1/6th Battalion, The 209th Infantry
Reserve) South Staffordshire Brigade as a training
Regiment, battalion. Following
Wolverhampton the end of the war,
2/6th Battalion, The the 11th Battalion
South Staffordshire was posted to the
 Regiment, Bilston Middle East where it
7th Battalion, The was disbanded.
South Staffordshire The 12th Battalion
Regiment, was converted to
Brownhills 91st Light Anti-
Aircraft Regiment,
Royal Artillery and
served with the 4th
Infantry Division.
Similarly, the 13th
Battalion became
the 104th Light Anti-
Aircraft Regiment,
Royal Artillery.
14th Battalion which
was raised at
Hereford racecourse
in July 1940 was
sent to guard the
beaches at Great
Yarmouth and
Caister-on-Sea. In
late 1942, it
transferred to the
Royal Artillery and
converted into the
103rd Anti-Tank
Regiment, Royal
Artillery and trained
in Scotland.
However, the
regiment was
disbanded in August
1943.
Dorsetshire 1st Battalion 4th Battalion, The The 30th Battalion,
Regiment 2nd Battalion Dorsetshire previously the 6th
3rd Battalion Regiment, (Home Defence)
(Supplementary Dorchester Battalion, was with
Reserve) 5th Battalion, The the 43rd Infantry
Dorsetshire Brigade in North
Regiment, Poole Africa and the
invasion of Sicily,
after which it spent
the rest of the war
in Gibraltar.
The 7th Battalion,
which was raised in
1940, was later
 converted to the
110th Light Anti-
Aircraft Regiment,
Royal Artillery. The
regiment served
with the 43rd
(Wessex) Division in
North-West Europe
from June 1944 to
May 1945.
The 8th Battalion,
which was also
raised in 1940 as
50th (Holding)
Battalion, was
initially assigned to
the 210th
Independent
Infantry Brigade
(Home) and was on
home defence.
Later, the battalion
converted to the
105th Light Anti-
Aircraft Regiment,
Royal Artillery. The
regiment was sent
to North Africa in
late 1942 and fought
with the British First
Army, It later served
in the Italian
Campaign
supporting US Fifth
Army.
Prince of Wales's 1st Battalion 1/4th Battalion, The The regiment raised
Volunteers (South 2nd Battalion Prince of Wales's many other
Lancashire 3rd Battalion South Lancashire battalions for service
Regiment) (Supplementary Volunteers, before and during
South Lancashire Reserve) Warrington the war but most
Regiment (The 2/4th Battalion, The were disbanded
Prince of Wales's Prince of Wales's before the war's
Volunteers) South Lancashire end. The 6th (Home
Volunteers, Defence) Battalion
Warrington was raised in 1939
61st (5th Battalion and, in 1941, was
South Lancashire redesignated the
Regiment) 30th Battalion. It
Searchlight was disbanded in
Regiment, Royal January 1943.
Artillery, St Helen
The 7th and 8th
battalions were both
raised in 1940 and
joined the 204th
Infantry Brigade. On
1 September 1942,
the brigade was
redesignated the
185th Infantry
Brigade and the 7th
Battalion was sent to
India, where it
remained until
disbandment in
1946, as a training
battalion with the
52nd Brigade. The
battalion's role was
training British
infantry
replacements in
jungle warfare for
the British
Fourteenth Army.

The 50th (Holding)

Battalion was raised
in 1940. That
October, it was
redesignated as the
9th Battalion and
joined the 225th
Infantry Brigade and
then the 207th
Infantry Brigade.
The battalion
remained in the
United Kingdom for
the war and was
later transferred to
the 164th Infantry
Brigade, alongside
the 1/4th Battalion,
and supplied
replacements to
 units overseas. It
was apparently
disbanded in July
1944, but another
source claims it was
disbanded in 1946.
Welch Regiment 1st Battalion 4th (Llanelli)
2nd Battalion Battalion, The
3rd Battalion Welch Regiment,
(Supplementary Llanelli
Reserve) 1/5th (Glamorgan)
Battalion, The
Welch Regiment,
Pontypridd
2/5th Battalion, The
Welch Regiment,
Swansea
67th (6th
(Glamorgan)
Battalion, The
Welch Regiment)
Searchlight
Regiment, Royal
Artillery, Cardiff,
later 602 (Welch)
Heavy Anti-Aircraft
Rgt
15th
(Carmarthanshire)
Battalion, The
Welch Regiment,
Llanelli
Black Watch 1st Battalion 4th (City of 10th (transferred to 1st (Amalgamated
(Royal Highland 2nd Battalion Dundee), the Black Watch with 2nd Battalion
Regiment) 3rd Battalion (redesignation of from the Orkney and on the 13 July
(Supplementary 4th/5th (Dundee Shetland Islands 1948, without a
Reserve) and Angus) Defence Forces in change in title)
Battalion) (See Post- 1943) (Disbanded 2nd
World War II) in 1946) (Amalgamated
5th (Angus and 30th (Disbanded with 1st Battalion
Dundee) (as a in 1943) on the 13 July
duplicate of 4th 50th (Holding) 1948)
(City of Dundee) (Disbanded 1943) 4th (City of
Battalion) (See Post- 70th (Young Soldier) Dundee)
World War II) (Disbanded 1942) (Amalgamated
6th (Perthshire), with 5th (Angus
(redesignation of and Dundee)
6th/7th (Perth and Battalion on the 1
 Fife) Battalion) January 1947, to
(See Post- form the 4th/5th
World War II) (Dundee and
7th (Fife), Angus) Battalion)
(redesignation of 5th (Angus and
6th/7th (Perth and Dundee)
Fife) Battalion) (See (Amalgamated
Post-World War II) with 4th (City of
8th (Training) Dundee) Battalion
(Amalgamated with on the 1 January
the 9th (Home 1947, to form the
Defence) Battalion 4th/5th (Dundee
in August 1941) and Angus)
9th (Home Defence) Battalion)
(Sent as 6th (Perthshire)
reinforcements, to (Amalgamated
the 6th (Perthshire) with 7th (Fife)
Battalion in North Battalion on the 1
Africa, upon January 1947, to
amalgamation) form the 6th/7th
(Perthshire and
Fife) Battalion)
7th (Fife)
(Amalgamated
with 6th
(Perthshire)
Battalion on the 1
January 1947, to
form the 6th/7th
(Perthshire and
Fife) Battalion)
Oxfordshire Light 1st Battalion 4th Battalion, The 6th Battalion, Oxford
Infantry 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and and Bucks Light
3rd Battalion Buckinghamshire Infantry, hostilities-
(Supplementary Light Infantry, only unit created in
Reserve) Oxford early July 1940, from
1st a cadre of eighteen
Buckinghamshire officers, five warrant
Battalion, The officers, fifty-three
Oxfordshire and Non-commissioned
Buckinghamshire officers and sixty-
Light Infantry, five other ranks,
Oxford nearly all of them
5th Battalion, The from the Regular
Oxfordshire and Army, assigned to
Buckinghamshire the 14th Infantry
Light Infantry, Group, later the
Oxford 214th Independent
2nd Infantry Brigade
Buckinghamshire (Home), serving
Battalion, The alongside the 19th,
Oxfordshire and 20th and 21st
Buckinghamshire battalions of the
Light Infantry, Royal Fusiliers (City
Slough of London
Regiment), in mid-
1942 the battalion
was sent to India
where they became
part of the 74th
Indian Infantry
Brigade attached to
25th Indian Infantry
Division. The 6th Ox
and Bucks served on
the Arakan Front
during the advance
down the west coast
of Burma in
1944/45. The
battalion fought at
Akyab in 1944 and
at the main
Japanese Base at
Tamandu in 1945
50th (Holding)
Battalion were a
hostilities-only
battalion created on
3 June 1940, whose
original job was to
'hold' men who
were medically
unfit, awaiting
orders, on a course
or returning from
abroad. In October
1940 the battalion
was redesignated
the 7th Battalion. In
February 1941, they
became part of the
167th (London)
Infantry Brigade,
serving alongside
the 8th and 9th
 battalions of the
Royal Fusiliers, both
Territorial units, and
were attached to the
56th (London)
Infantry Division
Essex Regiment 1st Battalion 1/4th Battalion, The The 7th (Home
2nd Battalion Essex Regiment, Defence) Battalion,
3rd Battalion Chelmsford Essex Regiment was
(Supplementary 2/4th Battalion, The raised specifically for
Reserve) Essex Regiment, home defence
Ilford duties in the United
1/5th Battalion, The Kingdom. The
Essex Regiment, battalion was
Braintree created on 2
2/5th (East) November 1939
Battalion, The Essex from 8 Group
Regiment, National Defence
Colchester Companies. The
64th (1/6th battalion consisted
Battalion, The Essex mainly of older and
Regiment) less fit men but who
Searchlight had had previous
Regiment, Royal military experience
Artillery, The Cedars and younger soldiers
65th (2/6th around the ages of
Battalion, The Essex 18 and 19, and thus
Regiment) not old enough to
Searchlight be conscripted, who
Regiment, Royal later went on to
Artillery, Southend- help form the 70th
on-Sea (Young Soldiers)
59th (7th Battalion, Battalion. On 24
Essex Regiment) December 1941, the
Heavy Anti-Aircraft battalion was
Regiment, Royal reorganised and
Artillery, redesignated as the
Walthamstow 30th Battalion and
remained in the
United Kingdom
until it was
disbanded on 31
March 1943

8th Battalion, Essex

Regiment was raised
at Warley, Essex on
4 July 1940,
assigned to 210th
Independent
Infantry Brigade
(Home) until late
February 1941 when
it was transferred to
the 226th
Independent
Infantry Brigade
(Home). On 1
December 1941, the
battalion was
transferred to the
Royal Armoured
Corps and converted
to armour,
becoming the 153rd
(Essex) Regiment
Royal Armoured
Corps. While the
men donned the
black beret of the
Royal Armoured
Corps, they
continued to wear
their Essex Regiment
cap badge as did all
infantry units
converted in this
manner.

During the
conversion, surplus
personnel were
formed into 'R'
Company, Essex
Regiment, which
soon afterwards was
designated as V
Corps HQ Defence
Company. On
formation, 153 RAC
joined 34th Army
Tank Brigade, with
which it fought in
Normandy,
alongside 107 RAC
and 147 RAC.
However, 153 RAC
was disbanded on
28 August 1944, due
to a severe shortage
of manpower, to be
used as
replacements for
other British tank
units in the 21st
Army Group

9th Battalion was

also raised at Warley
on 4 July 1940, the
same day the 8th
Battalion was raised,
and joined the
210th Brigade
alongside the 8th
Battalion, before
both being
transferred to 225th
Brigade. Now
assigned to the
219th Independent
Infantry Brigade, the
battalion was
transferred to the
Royal Artillery and
converted into the
11th Medium
Regiment, Royal
Artillery on 1
December 1942, as
were the rest of the
battalions in the
brigade. The
regiment served in
the Battle of
Normandy as part of
the 9th Army Group
Royal Artillery. The
regiment was
disbanded after the
war in January 1946

50th (Holding)
Battalion, Essex
Regiment was
formed at
Colchester on 28
May 1940.[62] On 9
October, it was
reorganised as the
10th Battalion and
served in the home
defence role,
assigned to 223rd
Independent
Infantry Brigade
(Home). On 8
December 1942, the
brigade was
converted into the
3rd Parachute
Brigade and the
battalion became
the 9th Battalion,
Parachute Regiment,
part of the Army's
airborne forces.
Originally assigned
to the 1st Airborne
Division, the 3rd
Para Brigade was
transferred, in May
1943, to help create
the 6th Airborne
Division

With most of the 6th

Airborne Division,
the battalion was
involved in the
British airborne
landings in the early
hours of 6 June 1944
(D-Day), code-
named Operation
Tonga, where the
battalion had the
task of destroying
the Merville Gun
Battery. After D-Day,
they fought in the
Battle of Normandy
as normal
infantrymen until
the middle of
August (see 6th
Airborne Division
advance to the River
Seine). They later
played a small part
in the Battle of the
Bulge in December
1944 and a large
part in Operation
Varsity in March
1945, the largest
airborne operation
of the war, involving
over 16,000
paratroopers, where
the 6th Airborne
Division fought
alongside the US
17th Airborne
Division and both
divisions suffered
relatively heavy
casualties in only a
short amount of
time. The 9th
Battalion, Parachute
Regiment ended the
war in May 1945
near the Baltic sea
and was later sent
with the rest of the
6th Airborne
Division in Palestine

70th (Young
Soldiers) Battalion
was formed in the
United Kingdom on
16 September 1940
from the younger
personnel of the 7th
(Home Defence)
Battalion and from
young volunteers –
although a person
 could officially join
the British Army at
age 18, he couldn't
be posted for
service overseas
until he was at least
19. After serving in a
home defence role,
the unit was
disbanded on 31
March 1943, as were
all such units of
other regiments,
due to the British
government
lowering the age of
conscription from 20
to 18

19th Battalion was

also formed; it
carried out line of
communication
duties in the Middle
East and Eritrea
Sherwood 1st Battalion 1/5th Battalion, The 10th (Home
Foresters 2nd Battalion Nottinghamshire Defence) Battalion
(Derbyshire 3rd Battalion and Derbyshire was raised for home
Regiment) (Supplementary Regiment (The defence in 1939 and,
Sherwood Reserve) Sherwood like most other
Foresters Foresters), Derby home service units,
(Nottinghamshire 2/5th Battalion, The would mainly have
and Derbyshire Nottinghamshire had consisted of
Regiment) and Derbyshire men with military
Regiment (The experience who
Sherwood were too old or
Foresters), Derby medically unfit for
8th Battalion, The active service
Nottinghamshire overseas, or from
and Derbyshire younger soldiers
Regiment (The who themselves
Sherwood were not old enough
Foresters), Newark- to be conscripted
on-Trent (the age for
9th Battalion, The conscription being
Nottinghamshire 20 at the time). The
and Derbyshire battalion was
Regiment (The disbanded in 1941
Sherwood 12th Battalion was a
Foresters), Newark- hostilities-only unit
on-Trent raised in 1940.[2] In
40th (High Peak 1942, it was sent to
Rifles India, where it
6th Battalion, The carried out internal
Sherwood security duties at
Foresters) Anti- Delhi. On 1 January
Aircraft Battalion, 1944, it moved to
Royal Engineers, Delawari and came
Chesterfield, later under the command
149th Light Anti- of the 52nd Infantry
Aircraft Regiment, Brigade, whose role
RA was training British
42nd (The Robin infantrymen in
Hoods, Sherwood jungle warfare
Foresters) Anti- 13th Battalion was a
Aircraft Battalion, hostilities-only unit
Royal Engineers, raised in 1940.[2] In
Nottingham, later 1942, it was sent to
577th (The Robin India, where it was
Hoods, Sherwood converted to the
Foresters) armoured role as
Searchlight 163rd Regiment
Regiment, RA, Royal Armoured
amalgamated with Corps.[41] In
the 350th (South common with other
Nottinghamshire infantry battalions
Hussars Yeomanry) transferred to the
Heavy Regiment, Royal Armoured
Royal Artillery and Corps, the personnel
528th Light Anti- of 163 RAC would
Aircraft Regiment have continued to
(West wear their Foresters
Nottinghamshire) to cap badge on the
form the 350th (The black beret of the
Robin Hood Royal Armoured
Foresters) Heavy Corps.[42]
Regiment,
converted to 163 RAC was
engineers and re- stationed at
titled as the 350 Rawalpindi under
(The Robin Hood command of 267th
Foresters) Field Indian Armoured
Squadron. In 1967, Brigade. However,
with reforms of the there was a change
Armed Forces, it left of policy and, on 1
the RE, returning to December 1944
the Sherwood (also reported as 1
Foresters as part of December 1943),
The Robin Hood the regiment was re-
(Territorial) converted to
Battalion, a TAVR III infantry, reverting to
(Territorial and its previous title of
Army Volunteer 13th Sherwood
Reserve) unit. In Foresters and
1969, the Robin coming under
Hoods were command of 67th
reduced to cadre Indian Training
strength when they Brigade
became the Robin 14th Battalion was a
Hood (T) Battalion, hostilities-only unit
The Sherwood raised in 1940[2]
Foresters, RE. The that went on to see
Robin Hoods were active service in the
sponsored by 73 Middle East (Egypt,
Engineer Regiment, Palestine, Syria,
RE. In 1971, with Lebanon, Iraq) and
further defence Italy. It was first
reforms, the Robin assigned to the
Hoods became D 218th Independent
(Robin Hood Infantry Brigade
Foresters) Company, (Home), formed for
3rd (V) Battalion of Home Service in the
the newly formed Yorkshire Area, but
Worcestershire and was soon reassigned
Sherwood Foresters to be the lorried
Regiment. infantry[44]
component
In 1992, the Robin alongside the
Hood lineage was artillery of 8th
discontinued upon Support Group in
D Company the newly raised 8th
becoming the HQ Armoured Division.
Company; the In 1942, the division
company was went round by sea
disbanded in 1999 to Suez, but, on
arrival in July, it was
broken up and 14th
Foresters were sent
to join the 9th
Independent
Armoured Brigade,
with which it fought
at the Second Battle
of El Alamein under
the command of
2nd New Zealand
Division.

In January 1943, the

14th Foresters went
to join the 7th
Armoured Brigade
refitting in Persia
and Iraq Command.
In the summer of
1943, the battalion
returned to North
Africa to join the
18th Infantry
Brigade in the 1st
Armoured Division.
In February 1944,
the brigade sailed to
Italy and took part in
the Anzio campaign
(February–May
1944) under the
command of the 1st
Infantry Division. In
August, the brigade
returned to the 1st
Armoured Division
and was engaged in
the operations at
Coriano in
September. By now,
the brigade's
infantry battalions
were badly depleted
and, due to the lack
of replacements in
the Mediterranean,
the 14th Foresters
was reduced to a
cadre and
transferred to the
non-operational
168th (London)
Infantry Brigade,
before being
disbanded.
 15th Battalion was
raised for Home
Defence in 1940 and
disbanded in 1941

16th Battalion was

formed by the re-
designation of the
70th (Young
Soldiers) Battalion in
September 1942.
The new 16th
battalion transferred
to the 162nd
Infantry Brigade and
later the 222nd
Infantry Brigade.[47]
On 1 January 1943
the 16th Battalion
was re-designated
as the 1st Battalion

70th (Young
Soldiers) Battalion
was stationed at
Holme Pierrepont
Hall, near Radcliffe-
on-Trent,
Nottingham. Like all
other Young Soldiers
battalions, this was
formed to take
volunteers around
the ages of 18 and
19 who had not yet
reached the
compulsory age of
conscription, which
was 20 at the time.
In September 1942,
the 70th was
redesignated as the
16th Battalion
Loyal North 1st Battalion 5th Battalion, The 7th Battalion was a
Lancashire 2nd Battalion Loyal North wartime infantry
Regiment 3rd Battalion Lancashire unit raised at the
Loyal Regiment (Supplementary Regiment, Bolton, regimental
(North Lancashire) Reserve) motorcycle headquarters,
reconnaissance, Fulwood Barracks,
later was Preston, on 4 July
transferred and 1940. The bulk of
converted, in 1941, the battalion's
into a recruits were men
Reconnaissance from Merseyside,
Corps unit for the Cheshire and
18th (East Anglian) Lancashire, who had
Division and re- been called up for
designated as the military service.
18th Battalion, Along with the 8th
Reconnaissance and 9th battalions it
Corps.[22] The 18th assembled in camp
Recce was at Caernarfon
transferred with the where, together
rest of the 18th with 12th Battalion
Division as Royal Welch
reinforcements for Fusiliers, they
the Battle of constituted No 15
Singapore. They Infantry Training
arrived at Singapore Group, later 215th
late in the campaign Independent
without much of Infantry Brigade
their equipment (Home), a home
and were used as defence formation.
regular infantrymen Training was
until the surrender hampered by the
on 15 February shortage of rifles
1942. Like the men and equipment, the
of the Regular 2nd tented camp
Battalion captured became
in Singapore, the uninhabitable during
men of 18th Recce winter gales, and
spent the rest of the the battalions went
war as prisoners of into billets. The 7th
the Imperial battalion went on
Japanese Army anti-invasion duties
in Liverpool. In
6th Battalion, The February 1941, the
Loyal North brigade transferred
Lancashire to the Durham and
Regiment, Bolton, North Riding County
motorcycle Division in North
reconnaissance, 2nd East England,
Line duplicate of the guarding the
5th Battalion and Scarborough coast,
served with its Darlington and
parent unit in the Redcar against
55th (West Operation Sea Lion,
Lancashire) Division the German invasion
until being of England, which
transferred to the never arrived. On 13
59th (Staffordshire) November 1941, the
Division soon after 7th Battalion was
the outbreak of war. transferred to the
The battalion, like Royal Artillery and
its parent unit, was converted into the
also trained as a 92nd (Loyals) Light
motorcycle Anti-Aircraft
battalion in the 59th Regiment, Royal
Division. Like the Artillery and joined
5th Battalion, the the British 3rd
6th Battalion Loyals Infantry Division, a
were also converted Regular Army
in 1941 from their formation. The
infantry role. The regiment landed in
battalion was Normandy with the
transferred to the rest of 3rd Division
Reconnaissance on D-Day, 6 June
Corps and 1944, and
converted and re- performed notable
designated as 2nd service during
Reconnaissance Operation Tonga in
Regiment and defence of Pegasus
joined the 2nd Bridge and Horsa
Infantry Division, a Bridge and later
Regular Army fought in the entire
formation, on 30 North West Europe
April 1941. With the Campaign
rest of the division,
it was transferred in 8th Battalion was
April 1942 to British formed on 4 July
India, where it 1940 at Ashton-
would be engaged under-Lyne, with the
against the Imperial majority of the
Japanese Army, recruits coming from
notably in India Liverpool and the
during the Battle of cadre of
Kohima in 1944 and experienced non-
then as part of commissioned
William Slim's, officers and men
commander of the from the
British Fourteenth Manchester
Army, offensive to Regiment's Machine
re-capture Burma Gun Training Centre
at Ladysmith
4th Battalion had Barracks, Ashton-
been converted to under-Lyne. It also
the 62nd served in 215th
Searchlight Independent
Regiment, Royal Infantry Brigade
Engineers before (Home), and went
the war. In 1940, it into billets in
was transferred to disused mills at
the Royal Artillery. Biddulph and
In 1943, it became Huyton during the
150th (Loyals) Anti- winter of 1940–41.
Aircraft Regiment, Like the 7th Loyals,
Royal Artillery and, the 8th Battalion
in March 1944, was also transferred
joined the 9th to the Royal
Armoured Division Artillery, becoming
until it was the 93rd Light Anti-
disbanded and the Aircraft Regiment,
regiment later Royal Artillery, on 15
served with the November 1941. In
55th (West January 1942, it
Lancashire) Infantry joined the 42nd
Division from Support Group in
August 1944 until 42nd Armoured
March 1945 when it Division (converted
was sent to North- from the 42nd (East
west Europe to join Lancashire) Infantry
the British Second Division). When the
Army 42nd Armoured was
broken up in
October 1943, the
regiment served in
Home Forces,
joining 80th AA
Brigade to train for
an assault role on D-
Day. Like the 92nd
LAA Regiment, the
93rd LAA Regiment
served with the
British Second Army
in the North West
Europe Campaign
from 1944 to 1945

9th Battalion was

also raised in 1940,
serving alongside
the 7th and 8th
battalions in 215th
Independent
Infantry Brigade
(Home). In 1941, the
battalion was
transferred to the
Royal Armoured
Corps and converted
into the 148th
Regiment Royal
Armoured Corps.
However, they
continued to wear
their Loyal Regiment
cap badge on the
black beret of the
Royal Armoured
Corps, as did all
infantry units
converted in such a
way. The regiment
joined 33rd
Armoured Brigade
(previously 33rd
Tank Brigade) and
landed on the
beaches of
Normandy on 13
June 1944. The
regiment fought
throughout the
Battle for Caen until
it was disbanded,
due to an acute
shortage of
manpower, on 16
August 1944, and
replaced in the
brigade by the 1st
East Riding
Yeomanry

50th (Holding)
Battalion was raised
in June 1940. The
battalion's purpose
was to temporarily
 'hold' men who
were medically unfit
or homeless,
awaiting orders, on
courses or returning
from abroad. In
October, it was
redesignated as the
10th Battalion and
joined the 210th
Independent
Infantry Brigade
(Home) and then
the 203rd
Independent
Infantry Brigade
(Home). The
battalion was again
re-designated as the
2nd Battalion on 28
May 1942 after the
original 2nd
Battalion was lost at
Singapore in
February. The new
2nd Battalion served
mainly in the United
Kingdom with the
199th Brigade (later
166th Bde) in 55th
(West Lancashire)
Infantry Division.
However, in October
1944, the battalion
was sent to Italy to
fight in the Italian
Campaign with the
20th Indian Infantry
Brigade, 10th Indian
Infantry Division,
and saw action in
Operation
Grapeshot, the final
offensive in Italy
Northamptonshire 1st Battalion 50th (4th Battalion, 50th (Holding)
Regiment 2nd Battalion (1st 1st Battalion was raised
3rd Battalion Northamptonshire on 12 June 1940.
(Supplementary Rifle Volunteers) The role of the
 Reserve) The Holding battalion
Northamptonshire was to temporarily
Regiment) Anti- 'hold' men who
Aircraft Battalion, were medically
Royal Artillery, unfit, temporarily
Northampton homeless, returning
4th Battalion, The from abroad or
Northamptonshire awaiting orders. It
Regiment (TA), was redesignated
Northampton the 6th Battalion in
5th October 1940 and
(Huntingdonshire) was assigned to the
Battalion, The 223rd Independent
Northamptonshire Infantry Brigade
Regiment, (Home). However,
Peterborough the battalion would
9th Battalion, The remain in the United
Northamptonshire Kingdom throughout
Regiment, Oldbury the war, later
transferring to 204th
Independent
Infantry Brigade
(Home) and
becoming a reserve
training battalion for
the rest of the war
Princess Charlotte 1st Battalion 4th Battalion, 8th (Home Defence) After the Second
of Wales's 2nd Battalion Princess Charlotte Battalion was World War, all
(Berkshire 3rd Battalion of Wales's Royal formed in November hostilities-only
Regiment) (Supplementary Berkshire Regiment, 1939 from No. 84 battalions were
Royal Berkshire Reserve) Reading Group, National disbanded, and
Regiment 5th (Hackney) Defence Companies. the 4th and 6th
(Princess Charlotte Battalion, Princess The battalion was battalions were
of Wales's) Charlotte of Wales's created specifically amalgamated. In
Royal Berkshire for home defence 1959 the regiment
Regiment, Hackney purposes and was amalgamated
6th Battalion, consisted mainly of with The Wiltshire
Princess Charlotte men mainly in a Regiment (Duke of
of Wales's Royal lower medical Edinburgh's) into
Berkshire Regiment, category and The Duke of
Reading younger soldiers Edinburgh's Royal
7th (Stoke unable to be Regiment
Newington) conscripted and (Berkshire and
Battalion, Princess eventually it grew to Wiltshire)
Charlotte of Wales's 2,000 strong. In
Royal Berkshire 1940 the younger
Regiment, Stoke soldiers of the
Newington battalion were split
and formed a new
70th (Young
Soldiers) Battalion
and in 1941 the 8th
Battalion was re-
designated as the
30th Battalion

9th Battalion,
nicknamed The
Farmer's Boys, was
formed in June 1940
at Reading and
joined the 213th
Infantry Brigade
(Home) and spent
the war in the
United Kingdom.
The battalion was
disbanded in
December 1943 due
to an increasing
shortage of
manpower in the
Army

50th (Holding)
Battalion, Royal
Berkshire Regiment
was another war-
formed unit of the
regiment raised in
May 1940 in
Reading, Berkshire.
The 50th (Holding)
Battalion's job was
to 'hold' men who
were homeless,
medically unfit or
those awaiting
orders, on courses
or returning from
abroad. In late 1940
it was renumbered
the 10th Battalion
and, in early 1941,
joined the 168th
(London) Infantry
Brigade, 56th
(London) Infantry
Division. In late 1942
the division was sent
to the Middle East.
The 168th Brigade
was detached to
fight with the 50th
Division which was
understrength after
heavy fighting and
casualties at Gazala
in North Africa. The
168th Brigade took
part in Operation
Husky, the invasion
of Sicily, and then
fought in the Italian
Campaign back with
the 56th Division.
The division came
under the command
of the US Fifth Army
under Mark W. Clark
for the landings at
Anzio, where the
battalion endured
some of the
bitterest fighting of
the war so far.
Fighting at Anzio
was similar to the
trench warfare of
the Great War.
However, due to the
severe shortage of
manpower in the
British Army at the
time, and the
battalion being the
most junior in 56th
Division, the
battalion was broken
up in March 1944
and the men were
used as
replacements for
other infantry units
 of 56th Division

70th (Young
Soldiers) Battalion
was raised in 1940
from the younger
personnel of the 8th
(Home Service)
Battalion and mainly
consisted of soldiers
around the age of
18-19 who had
volunteered for the
British Army. The
battalion spent most
of its time guarding
areas of the United
Kingdom against
German invasion
and grew to a size of
well over 1,000
officers and men,
with the hope that
they would be able
to see action
overseas. However,
the unit was
disbanded in July
1943, as with all
such units of other
regiments, due to
the British
government
lowering the age of
conscription to 18
earlier in the year,
and the young
soldiers were sent to
the front-line
battalions of the
regiment

Queen's Own 1st Battalion 4th Battalion, The 8th (Home Defence)
(Royal West Kent 2nd Battalion Queen's Own Royal Battalion was raised
Regiment) 3rd Battalion West Kent in 1939, presumably
Royal West Kent (Supplementary Regiment, from the National
Regiment Reserve) Tonbridge Defence Companies
(Queen's Own) 5th Battalion, The and would have
Queen's Own Queen's Own Royal consisted of men
Royal West Kent West Kent with previous
Regiment Regiment, Bromley military experience,
6th Battalion, The but who were too
Queen's Own Royal old or unfit for
West Kent active duties, along
Regiment, St Mary with younger
Cray soldiers. In 1940, the
7th Battalion, The younger soldiers of
Queen's Own Royal the battalion were
West Kent split to help form
Regiment, Dartford the 70th (Young
34th (Queen's Own Soldiers) Battalion.
Royal West Kent) In 1941, the
(20th Battalion, battalion was
London Regiment) redesignated the
Anti-Aircraft 30th Battalion and
Battalion, Royal was disbanded in
Engineers, 1943
Blackheath later
569 (Queen's Own) 9th Battalion,
Light AA/Searchlight Queen's Own Royal
Regiment, RA West Kent Regiment
was created in June
1940, consisting
mainly of large
numbers of
conscripts. The 9th
Battalion served
alongside 7th
Battalion, Suffolk
Regiment and the
8th and 9th
battalions of the
Essex Regiment as
part of the 210th
Independent
Infantry Brigade
(Home) until early
February 1941,
when it was
transferred to the
6th Support Group,
part of the 6th
Armoured Division.
The battalion was
transferred to the
Royal Armoured
Corps and converted
to armour in 1942 as
the 162nd Regiment
of the Royal
Armoured Corps,
but retained its
Royal West Kent
Regiment cap badge
on the black beret of
the Royal Armoured
Corps as did all
infantry units
converted in this
way. However, the
regiment was
disbanded in 1942,
without seeing
active service and
having only seen
home service

50th (Holding)
Battalion was raised
in late May 1940,
with the role of
'holding' men who
were homeless,
unfit, awaiting
orders of returning
from abroad. In
October 1940, it was
redesignated as the
10th Battalion and,
on 8 November,
became assigned to
the 221st
Independent
Infantry Brigade
(Home), alongside
the 11th
Gloucestershire
Regiment and 7th
King's Shropshire
Light Infantry, both
of which were also
former holding
battalions. The
battalion was
transferred to the
Royal Artillery and
converted, in
February 1942, into
the 119th Light Anti-
Aircraft Regiment,
Royal Artillery, and
served in Home
Forces until
September 1942,
when it joined the
79th Armoured
Division. However, it
was transferred to
the 15th (Scottish)
Infantry Division in
May 1943 and
remained with the
division for the rest
of the war, serving in
the Battle of
Normandy in the
Battle for Caen,
Operation Market
Garden and
Operation Plunder

70th (Young
Soldiers) Battalion
was raised in 1940
from the younger
soldiers of the 8th
(Home Defence)
Battalion and also
from volunteers
around the age of 18
or 19 who had
volunteered for
service in the British
Army and, therefore,
were not yet old
enough to be
conscripted, with
the age being 20 at
that time. The
battalion remained
in the United
 Kingdom for its
existence, mainly on
home defence and
anti-invasion duties,
or guarding airfields
for the Royal Air
Force. However, the
battalion was
disbanded in 1943
as the British
government
lowered the age of
conscription for the
British Armed Forces
from 20 to 18
The King's Own 1st Battalion 1/4th Battalion, The 7th Battalion was
Light Infantry 2nd Battalion King's Own (South) formed on 3 July
(South Yorkshire 3rd Battalion Yorkshire Light 1940 as an infantry
Regiment) (Supplementary Infantry, Wakefield battalion. However,
King's Own Reserve) 2/4th Battalion , in June 1941, it
(Yorkshire Light The King's Own became the 149th
Infantry) (South) Yorkshire Regiment in the
King’s Own Light Infantry Royal Armoured
Yorkshire Light 53rd (5th Battalion, Corps. The new
Infantry (51st and King's Own formation continued
105th) Yorkshire Light to wear their King's
Infantry) Light Anti- Own Yorkshire Light
Aircraft Regiment, Infantry cap badge
Royal Artillery (TA), on the black beret of
Doncaster the RAC. The
57th (5th Battalion, regiment was sent
King's Own to India and became
Yorkshire Light part of 50th Indian
Infantry) Light Anti- Tank Brigade.
Aircraft Regiment, Following training,
Royal Artillery the regiment fought
(2/TA), Doncaster at Kohima and
Imphal from April to
August 1944

8th Battalion was a

war service battalion
raised in July 1940.
It was transferred to
the Royal Artillery
and became the
94th Light Anti-
Aircraft Regiment,
 Royal Artillery. In
June 1942, the
regiment became
part of the Guards
Armoured Division
and served with it
for the rest of the
war, fighting in
North-western
Europe from June
1944 until May 1945

9th Battalion
(formerly the
Queen's Own
Yorkshire Dragoons)
[26] was motorized
infantry assigned to
the 18th Infantry
Brigade and
attached to the 1st
Armoured Division.
[27] The battalion
served in the Italian
Campaign, fighting
particularly severe
battles such as that
during the Battle of
Anzio in early 1944
until, due to a
severe shortage of
manpower in the
Italian theatre, it
was disbanded later
in the year
The King's Light
Infantry
(Shropshire
Regiment)
The (Duke of
Cambridge's Own)
Middlesex
Regiment
King's Royal Rifle
Corps
The (Duke of
Edinburgh's)
Wiltshire
Regiment
Manchester
Regiment
The (Prince of
Wales's) North
Staffordshire
Regiment
The York and
Lancaster
Regiment
Durham Light 1st Battalion 6th Battalion (1861, 1/13th (Home 1st (Amalgamated
Infantry 2nd Battalion Reduced to training Defence) (December with other light
3rd Battalion cadre December 1939 from No 41 infantry regiments
(Supplementary 1944 and returned National Defence to form The Light
Reserve) to the UK.) Company, Infantry in 1968,
4th Battalion 8th Battalion (1861, Disbanded Colours laid up in
(Supplementary Reduced to training November 1941 by Durham Cathedral
Reserve) cadre December renumbering as 30th 12 December
1944 and returned DLI) 1968.)
to the UK. 2/13th (Home 2nd
Disbanded 16 Defence) (Amalgamated
January 1946 at (September 1940 with 1st battalion,
Harrogate.) from 13th Battalion, September 1948,
9th Battalion (1861, Disbanded Reformed 1952,
Disbanded 16 December 1940 by re-amalgamated
October 1946 in renumbering as 18th with the 1st
Germany at Hemer.) DLI) battalion in 1955.)
10th (September 14th (June 1940, 3rd (Disbanded
1939, Disbanded Disbanded 1945) 1953)
September 1944.) 15th (October 1940 4th (Disbanded
11th (September from 50th (Holding) 1953, Colours laid
1939, Disbanded battalion, Converted up in the parish
September 1944) into the 155th church of St Mary
12th (September Regiment Royal the Virgin,
1939, Renamed the Armoured Corps in Barnard Castle, 16
1st Battalion, November 1941.) December 1956.)
Tyneside Scottish of 16th (June 1940, 6th (Amalgamated
the Black Watch Disbanded January– with the 8th
(Royal Highland February 1946 in battalion on 26
Regiment) in Vienna) February 1967 to
January 1940.) 17th (June 1940 at form the 6th/8th
13th (Home Shrewsbury, Battalion, the
Defence) Battalion Disbanded Durham Light
September 1943) Infantry.
18th (December Disbanded and
1940 formed from reformed on 1
the 2/13th battalion, April 1967 as D
Disbanded Company, The
November 1941 by Light Infantry
renumbering as 30th Volunteers and
DLI.) the 6th/8th
18th (March 1943, (Territorial)
Disbanded August Battalion, The
1945, Calais.) Durham Light
30th (Home Infantry, the latter
Defence) (November as part of the
1941 by the merger TAVR III. Re-raised
of 1/13th and 18th in March 1947.)
(1) battalions, 8th (Same as the
Disbanded 6th battalion. Re-
November 1942, raised in March
Gradually exchanged 1947.)
cat 'B' fitness men 9th (Re-raised and
for 'A1' and became disbanded 1947,
field force battalion by renaming as
from June 1942) the 17th battalion
70th (Young (T.A.) the
Soldiers) (December Parachute
1940, Disbanded Regiment. Colours
August 1943, Tow laid up in the
Law, Served as parish church of St
demonstration Mary, Gateshead,
battalion for G.H.Q. 5 November
Battle School. 1949.)
Over 400 officers
and men sent
overseas, intended
for the 151st
Brigade, over 150
however reached
the 16th Battalion
D.L.I. and the 6th
Battalion,
Lincolnshire
Regiment of the
138th Brigade, both
in 46th division then
in Italy. After their
first actions in Italy
the C.O. of Lincolns
said "...If we
received drafts like
this every time, the
war would soon be
 over.".)
Highland Light 1st Battalion, The
Infantry Glasgow
Highlanders,
Glasgow
2nd Battalion, The
Glasgow
Highlanders,
Glasgow
Seaforth
Highlanders (Duke
of Albany's/Ross-
shire Buffs)
Gordon
Highlanders
Queen's Own
Cameron
Highlanders
Royal Irish Rifles
Princess Victoria's
(Royal Irish
Fusiliers)
Connaught
Rangers
Argyll and 1st Battalion 5th (Renfrewshire) 12th (Home 1st (Amalgamated
Sutherland 2nd Battalion Battalion Defence) with 2nd Battalion
Highlanders 3rd Battalion (Transferred to the (Redesignated as on 30 September
(Princess Louise's) (Supplementary Royal Artillery, 30th Battalion in 1948)
Reserve) November 1941 December 1941) 2nd
4th Battalion and became 91st 13th (Home (Amalgamated
(Supplementary Anti-Tank Regiment) Defence) (Absorbed with 1st Battalion
Reserve) 6th Battalion into the 12th (Home on 30 September
(Transferred to the Defence) Battalion, 1948)
Royal Artillery, in August 1940) 3rd (Disbanded in
November 1941 14th (Home 1953)
and became 93rd Defence) (Disbanded 4th (Disbanded in
Anti-Tank Regiment) in October 1940) 1953)
7th 15th (by 7th (Disbanded
8th Battalion redesignation of and concurrently
10th Battalion 50th (Holding) amalgamated with
(Reformed the 7th Battalion) the 8th Battalion
Battalion in 1940) (Reconstituted as on 1 April 1967)
11th (Argyll and the 2nd Battalion, in 8th (Disbanded
Dumbarton) 1942) and concurrently
Battalion (Reformed 30th (by amalgamated with
the 8th Battalion in redesignation of the 7th Battalion
1940) 12th (Home on 1 April 1967)
 12th (Home Defence) Battalion,
Defence) Battalion Disbanded in
January 1943)
50th (Holding)
(Redesignated as
15th Battalion in
May 1940)
70th (Young Soldier)
(Disbanded 1942)
Prince of Wales's
Leinster Regiment
(Royal Canadians)
Royal Munster
Fusiliers
Royal Dublin
Fusiliers
The Prince
Consort's Own
Rifle Brigade
1st West India
Regiment
2nd West India
Regiment
Territorial Force
Honourable
Artillery Company
Monmouthshire
Regiment
Cambridgeshire
Regiment
Hertfordshire 1st Battalion
Regiment 2nd Battalion
Herefordshire
Regiment