5^th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade)

Three Battalions formed

1^st / 5^th Battalion 2^nd / 5^th Battalion

3^rd / 5^th Battalion 1916 Re-designated as a Territorial Battalion of The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) without

change of title 3^rd / 5^th Battalion re-designated as 5^th (Reserve) Battalion

 

Location of operations

Battle Honours awarded to 5^th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade):

Ypres 1915, '17, St Julien, Frezenberg, Somme 1916, '18, Albert 1916, [Guillemont], [Ginchy], Flers-Courcelette, [Morval], Le Transloy, Arras 1917, '18, Scarpe 1917, '18, Bullecourt, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, [Polygon Wood], [Passchendaele], Cambrai 1917, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, [Valenciennes], Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18

Reformed as: 5^th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) 1922 Re-designated as: 5^th City of London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) 1937 Re-designated as: The London Rifle Brigade, The Rifle Brigade 1939 On duplication of the Territorial Army re-designated as: 1^st Battalion, London Rifle Brigade, The Rifle Brigade

and

2^nd Battalion, London Rifle Brigade, The Rifle Brigade

Re-designated as:

and

Location of operations

Battle Honours awarded to London Rifle Brigade, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own):

Odon, Bourguebus Ridge, Mont Pincon, Le Perier Ridge, Falaise, Antwerp, Hechtel, Nederrijn, Leese, Aller, North-West Europe 1944-45, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, Tebega Gap, Tunis, North Africa 1942-43, Monte Malbe, Arezzo, Gothic Line, Orsara, Argenta Gap, Fossa Cembalina, Italy 1944-45

Reformed as:

Amalgamated with:

The Rangers, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)

[formerly: 12^th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment, The Rangers)]

To become:

Amalgamated with:

The Queen's Royal Rifles

[formerly: 9^th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen Victoria's)

15^th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment, (Prince of Wales's Own Civil

Service Rifles)

16^th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment, (Queen's Westminster Rifles)]

4^th Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

To become:

and with the Queen's Royal Rifles only:

became:
4^th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Green Jackets and:
The Royal Green Jackets, London (Cadre only)

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 Companies, The London Regiment transferred for training only to:

The Royal Rifles Volunteers 

The Royal Rifle Volunteers re-designated as:

7^th Battalion, The Rifles