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List of battalions of the Parachute Regiment
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A List of battalions of The Parachute Regiment from formation in 1940 to the present day.
- 1st Battalion [1940-present]
- 2nd Battalion [1941-present]
- 2nd/3rd Battalion [1946-1948]
- 3rd Battalion [1941-present]
- 4th Battalion4th Battalion, The Parachute RegimentThe 4th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment is a Territorial Army unit of the British Army. It is based across the U.K. Originally the Battalion covered the North of England with its Headquarters located in Pudsey, West Yorkshire...
[1942-1946]
- 4th/6th Battalion [1946-1948]
- 5th (Scottish) Parachute Battalion5th (Scottish) Parachute BattalionThe 5th Parachute Battalion was an airborne infantry battalion of the Parachute Regiment, raised by the British Army in 1942.The four proceeding British parachute battalions had been raised by volunteers from all ranks of the army...
[1942-1948] - formed from 7th Bn, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
- 6th (Royal Welsh) Parachute Battalion [1942-1946] - formed from 10th Bn, The Royal Welch Fusiliers
- 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion7th (Light Infantry) Parachute BattalionThe 7th Parachute Battalion was an airborne infantry battalion of the Parachute Regiment, formed by the British Army during the Second World War. The battalion was raised by the conversion of the 10th Somerset Light Infantry to parachute duties...
[1942-1948] - formed from 10th Bn, The Somerset Light Infantry
- 8th (Midland Counties) Parachute Battalion [1942-1946] - formed from 13th Bn, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
- 8th/9th Battalion [1946-1948] -
- 9th (Eastern and Home Counties) Parachute Battalion9th (Eastern and Home Counties) Parachute BattalionThe 9th Parachute Battalion was an airborne infantry battalion of the Parachute Regiment, raised by the British Army during the Second World War. Formed by the conversion of the 10th Battalion, Essex Regiment to parachute duties...
[1942-1946] - formed from 10th Bn, The Essex Regiment
- 10th Parachute Battalion [1943-1944] - formed from volunteers from the 2nd, 4th and 5th Bn, The Royal Sussex Regiment
- 11th Parachute Battalion [1943-1944] - formed from cadre of the 156th Battalion
- 12th (Yorkshire) Parachute Battalion [1943-1956] - formed from the 10th Bn, The Green HowardsThe Green HowardsThe Green Howards was an infantry regiment of the British Army, in the King's Division...
- 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion13th (Lancashire) Parachute BattalionThe 13th Parachute Battalion was an airborne infantry battalion of the Parachute Regiment, raised by the British Army during the Second World War...
[1943-1945] - formed from the 2/4th Bn, South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
- 15th (King's) Parachute Battalion15th (King's) Parachute BattalionThe 15th Parachute Battalion was an airborne infantry battalion of the Parachute Regiment, raised by the British Army during the Second World War....
[1945-1947] - formed from the 1st Bn, The King's Regiment (Liverpool)The King's Regiment (Liverpool)The King's Regiment was one of the oldest infantry regiments of the British Army, having been formed in 1685 and numbered as the 8th Regiment of Foot in 1751...
in RawalpindiRawalpindiRawalpindi , locally known as Pindi, is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad...
- 16th (Staffords) Parachute Battalion16th (Staffords) Parachute BattalionThe 16th Parachute Battalion was an airborne infantry battalion of the Parachute Regiment, raised by the British Army during the Second World War....
[1945-1947] - formed from the 1st Bn, The South Staffordshire Regiment in Rawalpindi
- 17th Parachute Battalion
- 151st Parachute Battalion [1941-1942] - formed in IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
from volunteers of 27 different battalions. Converted to 156th Battalion.
- 156th Parachute Battalion [1942-1944]
Territorials and Volunteers
- 4th/6th Battalion [1947-1948]
- 4th (V) Battalion [1967-present]
- 10th (County of London) Battalion [1947-1999]
- 11th (Middlesex) Battalion [1947-1956]
- 12th (Yorkshire) Battalion [1943-1956]
- 12th/13th (Yorkshire and Lancashire) Battalion [1956-1967]
- 13th (Lancashire) Battalion [1947-1956]
- 14th Battalion [1948-1956]
- 15th (Scottish) Battalion [1947-1992] -
- 16th (Welsh) Battalion [1947-1956]
- 17th Battalion (9th Bn The Durham Light Infantry) [1948-1967]
- 18th Battalion [1947-1956]