Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve

Under the reorganisation of 1967, the Territorial Army was replaced by the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve II and III. T&AVR II consisted of Volunteer units trained to provide immediate reinforcements for the Regular Army in an emergency. Thus, the 5^th (Volunteer) Bn The Queen’s Regiment was formed. T&AVR III consisted of Territorial units for home and civil defence. The 3^rd and 4^th Bns The Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment became the 6^th (Territorial) Bn The Queen’s Regiment.

This new organisation was not to last for long - in 1969 the Territorial battalions were reduced to cadre and so remained until 1971. In this year a modest expansion of the Reserve Army was approved, and two more Volunteer Battalions, the 6^th and 7^th, were formed for The Queen’s Regiment. The cadre of the former 6^th (Territorial) Bn The Queen’s Regiment became the Headquarters of the new 6^th (Volunteer) Bn The Queen’s Regiment, while the companies were formed from four other Territorial cadres, three of them Royal Artillery. In 1975, the 6^th and 7^th Volunteer Battalions amalgamated to form the 6/7^th Volunteer Bn The Queen’s Regiment.