Commanding and Officers Commanding
1946-1975
| 1st (Guards) Parachute Battalion |
| 1946-1948 Lieutenant Colonel E J B Nelson, DSO, OBE, MC |
| Reduced to company
strength in July 1948 and initially redesignated 16 (Guards) Independent Company The Parachute Regiment. Subsequently redesignated No 1 (Guards Company The Parachute Regiment |
| No 1 (Guards) Company The Parachute Regiment |
| 1948-1949 Major R Steele .............................Coldstream
Guards 1949-1951 Major J Agnew ............................Coldstream Guards 1951-1953 Major E I L Mostyn, MC ...............Scots Guards 1953-1955 Major G P Burnett .......................Scots Guards 1955-1957 Major W K Buckley ....................Welsh Guards 1957-1958 Major P N R Stewart-Richardson Coldstream Guards 1958-1959 Major J D N Retallack ................Welsh Guards 1959-1961 Major J N P Watson ...................Royal Horse Guards 1961-1963 Major E C Whitely ......................Irish Guards 1963-1965 Major J G F Head, MBE ...............Irish Guards 1965-1968 Major Sir N K L Nuttall .............Royal Horse Guards 1968-1970 Major D V Fanshawe ................Grenadier Guards 1970-1972 Major The Hon W D Coleridge .Coldstream Guards 1972-1974 Major M M Carnegie-Brown ....Scots Guards 1974-1975 Major R J S Corbett .................Irish Guards |
| Disbanded in October 1975 |