The West Midlands Regiment was a short-lived British
Territorial Armyregiment from 1999 until it was re-designated as 4th Battalion, Mercian Regiment, in 2007.
The regiment was composed of a headquarters company and five rifle companies, continuing to use the insignia of the regular regiments to which they were affiliated. Its initial structure was as follows:[2][3]
C (Staffords) Company, at
Burton upon Trent (from C Company, 3rd Battalion, Staffordshire Regiment)
D (Staffords) Company, at
Stoke-on-Trent (from B Company, 3rd Battalion, Staffordshire Regiment)
E (Light Infantry) Company, at
Shrewsbury and
Hereford (from HQ and C Companies, 5th Battalion, Light Infantry)
Structure prior to re-designation
Not long prior to re-designation of a battalion of the
Mercian Regiment, the regiment absorbed the companies from other regiments that were within the new regiment's recruiting area, in order to ease the re-designation process. After this, its structure was as follows:[3]
B Company, at Crewe and Stoke-on-Trent (from D (Cheshire) Company, King's and Cheshire Regiment)
C (Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment) Company, at
Mansfield (from C (Stafford) Company, West Midlands Regiment; and D (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire (Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment)) Company,
East of England Regiment)
F (Fusilier) Company, at
Birmingham (from A (Fusilier) Company)
L Company (Light Infantry), at Shrewsbury (from E (Light Infantry) Company, less Hereford Platoon to B (Shropshire Yeomanry) Squadron,
Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry)