157th (Wales and Midlands) Transport Regiment

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157th (Wales and Midlands) Transport Regiment, Royal Corps of Transport and Royal Logistics Corps, is a regiment of the Territorial Army in the United Kingdom.

The regiment was formed in the Royal Corps of Transport in 1967 from two territorial divisional transport regiments, with two transport squadrons. A third squadron was added in 1969, by redesignating a company of 4th Battalion, The Welch Regiment, and was retitled with a Yeomanry lineage in 1987.

The regiment was transferred into the Royal Logistics Corps in 1993, and an ambulance squadron formed from two companies of the Royal Regiment of Wales. In 1999 the regiment was redesignated 157th (Wales and Midlands) Logistic Support Regiment and reorganised, losing the ambulance squadron but gaining a Combat Supply Squadron.

In 2006 the regiment was redesignated back to 157th (Wales and Midlands) Transport Regiment, and the squadrons were again reshuffled; it emerged with 249 HQ Squadron, plus 223, 224 and 580 Transport Squadrons.

[edit] Squadrons

249 HQ Squadron (1967 to date)
123 Combat Supply Squadron (1999 - 2006)
223 (South Wales) Transport Squadron (1967 to date)
224 (Pembrokeshire Yeomanry) Transport Squadron (1967 to date; 1967 to 1987 as 224 (West Wales) Transport Squadron)
237 (Midlands) Transport Squadron (1967-2006)
580 Ambulance Squadron (1993-1999; 2006 to date as 580 Transport Squadron)