3^rd Battalion, The London Scottish, ( 97^th Anti-Aircraft Regiment) Re-designated as: 97^th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

Re-designated as: 97^th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (London Scottish)

Re-designated as: 97^th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (London Scottish)

Location of operations

Reformed as: 97^th Garrison Regiment, Royal Artillery

Re-designated as: 610^th Regiment, Royal Artillery (London Scottish) 1947 Re-designated as: 497^th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (London)

Re-designated as: 497^th (Hammersmith) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

Amalgamated with:452^nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery453^rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery488^th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal ArtilleryTo become: 452^nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

Amalgamated with:264^th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery[formerly: 7^th London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery]290^th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery[formerly: 1^st London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery]353^rd Medium Regiment, Royal ArtilleryTo become: 254^th (City of London) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery

Amalgamated with:

300^th (Tower Hamlets) Light Air Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery [formerly: 11^th , 17^th , 19^th (County of London) Battalions, The London Regiment 5^th , 6^th , 7^th Battalions, The Essex Regiment]

To become:

The Greater London Regiment, Royal Artillery (Territorials)

Amalgamated with: 6^th (Territorial) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment (Queen's Surreys) 10^th (Territorial) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment (Middlesex) The London and Kent Regiment, Royal Artillery (Territorials) The Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment), Royal Artillery (Territorials)

[formerly: 3^rd , 4^th , 6^th , 7^th , 8^th , 20^th , 21^st , 22^nd , 23^rd , 24^th Battalions, The London Regiment 4^th and 5^th Battalions, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) 5^th and 6^th Battalions, The East Surrey Regiment 7^th , 8^th , 9^th Battalions, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) 6^th (Cyclist) Battalion, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment 4^th , 6^th , 8^th London Brigades, Royal Field Artillery 4^th Home Counties Brigade, Royal Field Artillery 2^nd London Divisional Royal Engineers Kent (Fortress) Royal Engineers The Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment) part of The Kent and County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)]

To become:

6^th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment

Amalgamated with:

7^th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment [formerly: 4^th and 5^th Battalions, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) 4^th and 5^th Battalions, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment 4^th and 5^th Battalions, The Royal Sussex Regiment part of The Kent and County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)]

To become:

6^th / 7^th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment

B and D Companies, 6^th / 7^th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment formed:

A and B Companies, 8^th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Fusiliers (City of London)

with: C (City of London) Company, coming from 5^th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

A Company, 8^th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Fusiliers (City of London)

reverted to: 6^th / 7^th Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)

[formerly: 6^th / 7^th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment] B and C Companies, 8^th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Fusiliers (City of London) joined with: G (London Scottish) Company, 1^st Battalion, The 51^st Highland Volunteers D (London Irish Rifles) Company, 4^th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Irish Rangers

To form:

The London Regiment

organised as: A (London Scottish) Company B (Queen's Regiment) Company C (City of London Fusiliers) Company D (London Irish Rifles) Company HQ (Anzio) Company

Under the Strategic Defence Review of November 1998 The London Regiment

absorbed two companies: 4^th Battalion, The Royal Green Jackets organised as: HQ (Anzio) Company A (London Scottish) Company B (Queen's Regiment) Company C (City of London Fusiliers) Company D (London Irish Rifles) Company F (Royal Green Jackets) Company G (Royal Green Jackets) Company

F and G (Royal Green Jackets) Companies moved to join: 7^th Battalion, The Rifles leaving HQ and four companies with:

The London Regiment

B (Queen’s Regiment) Company transferred to the 4th Battalion the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment with loss of  title.           

C (City of London) Company transferred to the 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers with loss of title.            

These two companies were replaced by F Company which returned to the London Regiment with the title of F (RIFLES) Company and by the raising of a new G (Guards) Company to form The London Regiment.           

Organised as:             

HQ (Anzio) Company            

A (London Scottish) Company            

D (London Irish Rifles) Company 

F (RIFLES) Company  

G (Guards) Company.

Concurrently, The London Regiment has been restyled the 'Guards Reserve Battalion' within London District.