Deployments
In April 2004 a composite company of the regiment (Salamanca Company) was dispatched to Basra, Iraq. The company was attached to the 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment, as part of 1 Mechanised Brigade, within the Multi-National Division (South East). The Company returned home later that year. The battalion was part of 43 (Wessex) Brigade.
The Regiment deployed a company to Afghanistan in the Autumn of 2006. The sub-unit was known as Peninsula Company in honour of the Battle Honour earned by the Regiment's forefathers. In 2008 the battalion deployed another company (Corunna company) to Afghanistan, bolstered by a platoon from its sister battalion 1 rifles.
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