The Tyne-Tees Regiment was a

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of the British Territorial Army. The regiment was part of 15 (North East) Brigade and was the Territorial unit of

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in the area stretching from Scarborough in North Yorkshire, to

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in Northumberland.

History

The regiment was formed in 1999 by the amalgamation of the 6th Battalion,

The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (often referred to as the Royal Fusiliers or, simply, the Fusiliers) is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Queen's Division. Currently, the regiment has two battalions: the 1st battalion, part of ...

, 4th/5th Battalion The Green Howards (Yorkshire Volunteers) and 7th Battalion,

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due to the implementation of the reforms of the Territorial Army envisaged in the

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. The HQ was at

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, and the regiment was composed of a headquarters company and five companies: *HQ Company, at Gilesgate Armoury,

*A (Green Howards) Company, at

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and

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''(from A and C Companies, 4th/5th Battalion, Green Howards)'' *B (Green Howards) Company, at

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, and

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''(from B and HQ Companies, 4th/5th Battalion, Green Howards)'' *C (Durham Light Infantry) Company, at

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, and

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''(from B and C Companies, 7th Battalion, Light Infantry)'' *X (Fusilier) Company, at

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and

''(from W and X Companies, 6th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers)'' *Z (Fusilier) Company, at

Ashington Ashington is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, with a population of 27,864 at the 2011 Census. It was once a centre of the coal mining industry. The town is north of Newcastle upon Tyne, west of the A189 and bordered to the ...

and

Tynemouth Tynemouth () is a coastal town in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, North East England. It is located on the north side of the mouth of the River Tyne, hence its name. It is 8 mi (13 km) east-northeast of Newcastle upon T ...

''(from Z Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers)'' No new

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was created for this regiment, soldiers wore their former regimental cap badge or were badged according to the company they joined. On 4 July 2003, a composite company was dispatched to

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and was the first TA Infantry unit to be compulsorily mobilised since the

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in 1956. The three platoons deployed served at Basra Palace, Basra Airport and

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and were rotated around at intervals during this difficult and unstable period in Iraq's history. In 2004, a platoon was deployed to Iraq as part of Normandy Company of The

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. During this tour, Normandy Company suffered one fatality, Private Mark Stephen Dobson of the Tyne-Tees Regiment, who was found dead in his accommodation at Basrah Air Station on 28 March 2005. As part of the restructuring of the infantry announced in 2004, the Tyne-Tees Regiment was broken up, with its constituent companies going to their parent regiments: *A & B Companies merged to form B Company, 4th Battalion The

Yorkshire Regiment The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) (abbreviated YORKS) is an infantry regiment of the British Army, created by the amalgamation of three historic regiments in 2006. It lost one battalion as part of the Army 2020 defence ...

on 6 June 2006. *X, Z and C Companies formed the 5th Battalion,

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*Minden (Light Infantry) Company, formerly of The

, was broken up with the Doncaster detachment joining C (Durham Light Infantry) Company as the (Yorkshire Light Infantry) Platoon. The rest of the Wakefield-based Company formed the nucleus of the newly created 299 Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers.

References

External links

The Yorkshire Regiment MOD website

The Museum of The Green Howards website

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