What month was the Royal Hampshires reconstituted?

What month was the Royal Hampshires reconstituted in 1972 and alongside the Argyll's what other regiments where reconstituted that year.

 

R (Representative) Company 3 RGJ - went into action in Belfast in the Battle of Leeson Street

 

Gauis,

Wait out on this I will look it up in the regimental history when I get home tonight.

 

this site says 1972.

Site links from Regiments site, contents not infallible but an excellent place to start.

 

March 1972 - I was in Londonderry with the RWF at the time and a number of our NCOs transferred. Four batallions were reinstated, one other was the 2nd Scots Guards.

 

4th Bn The Queen's was reduced to a Company and then scrapped at about that time.

 

Best thing for it!

 

In theory - Yes! But, sadly the company arrived in the shiney 1st Bn lock stock & barrel, and then formed a rather unhealthy 57th mafia of lower-orders which continued until the '90s.

 

When we were told we were being amalgamated with the R Hamps we could not work it out. Surely the natural amalgamation for the R Hamps was with the D&Ds - even the local bus company was called the Hampshire & Dorset Bus Company!

 

Minden Company returned to the UK from Gibraltar at the end of Jan 72. "In fact, it had technically ceased to exist on the 15th of that month, the date that the 1st Battalion The Royal Hampshire Regiment was officially re-formed."

Source:
Perret, B. (1997): The Hampshire Tigers: The Story of the Royal Hampshire Regiment 1945 - 1992, page 247.

Wth regards to whom The Royal Hampshire Regiment should have amalgamated with:

Meetings were held by the Colonels of the Prince of Wales's Division. On the basis of geograpghy POW Div agreed that if amalgamations were required between four former Regiments of the Wessex Brigade, The GLOSTERS would amalgamate with the DERR and the D AND D would amalgamate with the R HAMPS."

For R HAMPS an amalgamation with either neighbouring Regiments, the D and D and DERR was also included as an option.

This submission also included the caveat that the R HAMPS were NOT inclined to amalgamate with the QUEENS. For the QUEENS with its traditions of a large multi-county regiment were in so contrast with those of a tightly-knit single battalion county regiment with the closest of county ties. (Source: As above page 406.) However, as we all know this was ignored and an amalgamation with the QUEENS to place in 1992 resulting in the PWRR.