1ST (CITY OF LONDON) BATTALION THE LONDON REGIMENT

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1^ST (CITY OF LONDON) BATTALION THE LONDON REGIMENT

1908

1^st (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment

Boer War

South Africa 1900-02

The Great War

Four Battalions formed

1914

1^st / 1^st Battalion 2^nd / 1^st Battalion

1915

3^rd / 1^st Battalion 4^th / 1^st Battalion

1916

Re-designated:

1^st (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)

4^th / 1^st Battalion re-designated as: 1^st (Reserve) Battalion 1^st / 1^st Battalion and 2^nd / 1^st Battalion amalgamated in May

To form: 1^st / 1^st Battalion
3^rd / 1^st Battalion renumbered as 2^nd / 1^st Battalion in June

1918

2^nd / 1^st Battalion disbanded 6^th February

1919

1^st / 1^st Battalion disembodied 6^th June 1^st (Reserve) Battalion disbanded 15^th August

Location of operations

1^st / 1^st Battalion

2^nd / 1^st Battalion

1915

Aubers Ridge

Suvla

1916

Bouleaux Wood
Lesbouefs

1917

Neuville Vitasse
Polygon Wood

Bullecourt
Passchendaele

1918

Croisilles
Palluel
Onnezies

Battle Honours awarded to 1^st City of London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers):

Aubers, Somme 1916, '18, Albert 1916, '18, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Arras 1917, '18, Scarpe 1917, '18, Bullecourt, Ypres 1917, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1915-18, Gallipoli 1915-16, Egypt 1916

1920

Reformed as:
1^st (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)

1922

Re-designated as:
1^st City of London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)

1937

Re-designated as:
8^th ( 1^st City of London) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

On duplication of the Territorial Army re-designated as: 8^th ( 1^st City of London) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) and 11^th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

WW2

1944

8^th Battalion Absorbed 9^th Battalion 22^nd September

11^th Battalion Suspended Animation 30^th June

1946

8^th Battalion Suspended Animation 16^th December

Location of operations

8^th Battalion,

11^th Battalion

1943

Enfidaville
Salerno
Volturno

Home Defence
(Bruneval Raid, the Anti-Aircraft Platoon, provided at sea fire support from the Royal Navy craft during the withdrawal stage of this operation)

1944

Garigliano
Anzio
Gothic Line
Coriano
Rimini Line
Limone

1945

Argenta

Battle Honours awarded to The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) attributable to
8^th ( 1^st City of London) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment):

Djebel Tebaga, North Africa 1943, Salerno, Teano, Monte Camino, Garigliano Crossing, Damiano, Anzio, Gothic Line, Coriano, Croce, Italy 1943-45

1947

Both 8^th and 11^th Battalions reformed and amalgamated as:

8^th (1^st City of London) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

1961

Amalgamated with:

624^th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery ( 9^th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers)

To become:

The City of London Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

1967

Reduced to company strength to form:

C (The City of London Company, The Royal Fusiliers), Fusilier Volunteers

1968

Re-designated as:

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

1986

Re-designated as:

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

London)

with:

A and B Companies coming from 6^th / 7^th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment

1993

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

1999

Under the Strategic Defence Review of November 1998 The London Regiment absorbed two companies from the 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

2007

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

2017

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 as 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

2023

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