Great Britain (Volunteers)

The Royal Anglian Regiment (Volunteers)

	formed from elements of 4th Battalion, The Royal Norfolk Regiment (TA) and 4th/6th Battalion, The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (TA) and The Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Regiment (TA) and 1st Battalion, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (TA) and 4th/5th Battalion, The Royal Leicestershire Regiment (TA) and 4th/5th Battalion, The Essex Regiment (TA) and 4th/5th Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment (TA) │	formed from elements of 4th Battalion, The Royal Norfolk Regiment (TA) │	formed from elements of The Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Regiment (TA) and 308th (Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	formed from elements of 1st Battalion, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (TA) and 286th (Hertfordshire and Bedfortshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │	formed from elements of 4th/5th Battalion, The Essex Regiment (TA) │
	Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
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1967:	5th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment	The Royal Norfolk Territorials	The Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Regiment (Territorials)	The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (Territorials)	The Essex Regiment (Territorials)
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1969:	│ │ │ │	reduced to cadre as The Royal Norfolk Regiment │ │	reduced to cadre as The Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Regiment │	reduced to cadre as The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment │	reduced to cadre as The Essex Regiment │ │
1971:	│	A (Royal Norfolk) Company,	D (Cambridgeshire) Company,	B (Bedfordshire) Company,	C (Essex) Company,
	│	6th (Volunteer) Battalion,
	The Royal Anglian Regiment
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	Territorial Army
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1996:	158th (Royal Anglian) Transport Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps (Volunteers)		│ │ │ │ │ │
		from 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) │	│ │ │ │ │ │		from 7th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment │
1999:		D (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire (Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment)) Company,	A (Norfolk and Suffolk) Company,	E (Essex and Hertfordshire) Company,	B (Lincolnshire) Company, C (Leicestershire and Northamptonshire) Company,
		The East of England Regiment │ │ │
2006:		3rd Battalion ‘The Steelbacks’, The Royal Anglian Regiment
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			Army Reserve
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