Rifle Volunteers
- Rifle Volunteers
The Rifle Volunteers is a regiment of the British
Territorial Army .History
The "Rifle Volunteers" were formed in
1999 by the amalgamation of the 6th Battalion,The Light Infantry , 4th Battalion, TheDevonshire and Dorset Regiment (The 1st Rifle Volunteers) and elements of the 2nd (V) Battalion,The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment in consequence of the reforms implemented due to theStrategic Defence Review . The HQ was inExeter and in February 2007, the battalion comprised four fighting companies and a headquarter company:*A Company - Gloucester and Bristol - back bage worn on helmet and beret.
*B (Somerset Light Infantry ) Company - Taunton.
*C (Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry) Company - Dorchester and Poole.
*D (Cornwall Light Infantry) Company - Truro, Bodmin and Plymouth.
*HQ Company - ExeterIn April
2004 a composite company of the regiment (Salamanca Company) was dispatched toBasra ,Iraq . The company was attached to the 1st BattalionCheshire Regiment , as part of1 Mechanised Brigade , within theMulti-National Division (South East) . The Company returned home later that year. The battalion was part of43 (Wessex) Brigade .On 24th November 2005, it was announced by the Ministry of Defence that the battalion would be amalgamated with other units into a new large regiment to be called The Rifles. In 2007, it became the 6th Battalion,
The Rifles . The merger reunited this multi-regimental battalion with the other territorial and regular units ofThe Light Infantry , theDevonshire and Dorset Regiment , and theRoyal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment .The Regiment deployed a company to Afghanistan in the Autumn of 2006. The sub-unit was known as Peninsula Company in honour of the Battle Honour earned by the Regiment's forefathers.
External links
* [http://www.army.mod.uk/riflevolunteers/ Regimental website (Ministry of Defence)]
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