1st Battalion
Formed 31 January 1959 by merger of 1st Battalion The South Staffordshire
Regiment and 1st Battalion The North Staffordshire Regiment.
TAVR II and subsequent Volunteer units, 1967 - 1988: see Mercian Volunteers.
3rd (Volunteer) Battalion The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)
Formed 5 April 1988 with Headquarters at Wolverhampton by reorganisation of Mercian Volunteers.
COMPANIES:
HQ Company at Wolverhampton. New formed.
A Company at Tamworth. New formed
B Company at Stoke on Trent by redesignation of 'B' Company
2nd Battalion Mercian Volunteers.
C Company at Burton on Trent and Rugeley by redesignation of
'C'
Company 1st Battalion Mercian Volunteers.
D Company at Walsall by redesignation of 'D' Company 2nd
Battalion Mercian Volunteers.
E (HSF) Company formed.
1992: reduced to three rifle company establishment.
'D' Company at Walsall disbanded.
1 July 1999: Battalion disbanded as result of the Strategic
Defence Review.
'B' Company and 'C' Company redesignated as 'D' Company
and 'C' Company The West Midlands Regiment
respectively.
'HQ' Company and 'A' Company disbanded.