17^th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles)

Three Battalions formed

1^st / 17^th Battalion 2^nd / 17^th Battalion

3^rd / 17^th Battalion

Re-designated as a Territorial Battalion of The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) without change of title 3^rd / 17^th Battalion re-designated as 17^th (Reserve) Battalion

 

Location of operations

Battle Honours awarded to 17^th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles):

Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916, '18 , Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Messines 1917, Ypres 1917, '18, Langemarck 1917, Cambrai 1917, St Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Ancre 1918, Albert 1918, Courtrai, France and Flanders 1915-18, Doiran 1917, Macedonia 1916-17, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Jericho, Jordan, Tell‘ Asur, Palestine 1917-18

Reformed as:

17^th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles)

Re-designated as:

17^th London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles)

Re-designated as: 17^th London Regiment (Tower Hamlets Rifles)

Re-designated as:

 

On duplication of the Territorial Army, re-designated as:

 

 

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New Battalion raised as:

 

Re-designated as:

 

 

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Battle Honours awarded to The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), (Tower Hamlets Rifles):
Mersa el Brega, Agedabia, Derna Aerodrome, Tobruk 1941, Chor es Sufan, Saunnu, Gazala, Defence of Alamein Line, Medjez el Bab, Kasserine, Thala, Fondouk, Fondouk Pass, El Kourzia, Tunis, Hamman Lif, North Africa 1941-43, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Melfa Crossing, Monte Rotondo, Capture of Perugia, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Tossignano, Italy 1944-45

Reformed as:
656^th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Rifle Brigade)

Amalgamated with:

512^th (Finsbury Rifles) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery 568^th (St Pancras) (Mixed) Light Anti-Aircraft and Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery [formerly: 11^th and 19^th Battalions, The London Regiment]

To become:

512^th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

Amalgamated with: 459^th (The Essex Regiment) Heavy-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery 517^th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

[formerly: 5^th Battalion, The Essex Regiment]

To become:

300^th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

Re-designated as: 300^th (Tower Hamlets) Light Air Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery

Amalgamated with:

254^th (City of London) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery [formerly: 1^st and 7^th London Brigades, Royal Field Artillery 3^rd Battalion, The London Scottish ( 97^th Anti-Aircraft 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 , 5^th Battalions, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) 5^th , 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 from 4^th Battalion, The Royal Green Jackets to be re-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, restyled the 'Guards Reserve Battalion' within London District. 

Organised as:             

HQ (Anzio) Company            

A (London Scottish) Company            

D (London Irish Rifles) Company 

F (RIFLES) Company  

G (Guards) Company

On 1st May, The London Regiment was redesignated the 1st Battalion The London Guards.