Three Battalions formed

1^st / 12^th Battalion 2^nd / 12^th Battalion

3^rd / 12^th Battalion

Re-designated as a Territorial Battalion of The King's Royal Rifle Corps without

change of title 3^rd / 12^th Battalion re-designated as 12^th (Reserve) Battalion 12^th (Reserve) Battalion absorbed into 9^th (Reserve) Battalion

Location of operations

Battle Honours awarded to 12^th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (The Rangers):

Ypres 1915, '17, Gravenstafel, St Julien, Frezenberg, Somme 1916, '18, Albert 1916, '18, Guillemont, Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917, Villers Bretonneux, Bapaume 1918, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Epéhy, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1914-18

Reformed as: 12^th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (The Rangers)

Re-designated as: 12^th London Regiment (The Rangers)

Re-designated as: The Rangers, The King's Royal Rifle Corps

On duplication of the Territorial Army, re-designated as:
1^st Battalion, The Rangers, King's Royal Rifle Corps
and
2^nd Battalion, The Rangers, King's Royal Rifle Corps

Re-designated as:

and

Location of operations Battle Honours awarded to The Rangers, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own):
Gazala, Retima, Bir Hacheim, Defence of Alamein Line, Ruweisat, Fuka Airfield, North Africa 1942, Veve, Proasteion, Greece 1941, Crete, Canea, Retimo, Middle East 1941

Reformed as:

Amalgamated with:

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

To become:

Amalgamated with:

The Queen's Royal Rifles

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

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

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

4^th Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

To become:

and (with Queen's Royal Rifles only):

Became:

and

Royal Green Jackets, London (Cadre only)

Under the Strategic Defence Review of November 1998

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

re-designated as: