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10TH (COUNTY OF LONDON) BATTALION THE LONDON REGIMENT (PADDINGTON RIFLES)

1908
10th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Paddington Rifles)
Boer War
South Africa 1900-02
1912
Disbanded
Re-raised as:

10th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Hackney)

The Great War
Three Battalions formed
1914
1st / 10th Battalion 2nd / 10th Battalion
1915
3rd / 10th Battalion
1916
Re-designated as a Territorial Battalion of The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)

without change of title 3rd / 10th Battalion re-designated as: 10th (Reserve) Battalion absorbing 3rd / 25th Cyclist Battalion

Location of operations

1st / 10th Battalion
2nd / 10th Battalion
1915
Suvla
1917
Ali Muntar
Arras
Gaza Lydda Dar Tureif
Ypres Passchendaele
1918
Majdal Yaba Kefar Thilth
Villers Bretonneux
Chipilly
Bray sur Somme
Epéhy
Lens
Maulde

Battle Honours awarded to 10th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Hackney):

Ypres 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, Villers Bretonneux, Amiens, Somme 1918, Albert 1918, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, Epéhy, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1917-18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1915-17, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jaffa, Tell' Asur, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1917-18

1920
Reformed as:

10th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Hackney) 1922 Re-designated as:

10th London Regiment (Hackney)

1937
Re-designated as:
5th (Hackney) Battalion, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
1939
On duplication of the Territorial Army re-designated as:
5th (Hackney) Battalion, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
and
7th (Stoke Newington) Battalion, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte
of Wales's)
WW2
Location of operations
5th Battalion
7th Battalion
1944
Normandy
Home Defence
1945
Rhine
Battle Honours awarded to The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) and attributable to 5th Battalion:
Normandy Landing, Rhine, North West Europe 1944-45
1947
Reformed as:
648th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Royal Berkshire)
1955
Disbanded
The Battle Honours awarded to 5th Battalion, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess
Charlotte of Wales's) appear in the list for the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire
Regiments in 1994, and are carried forward into those shown for The Rifles in 2007.
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