2^nd (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment

Four Battalions formed

1^st / 2^nd Battalion 2^nd / 2^nd Battalion 3^rd / 2^nd Battalion

4^th / 2^nd Battalion

Re-designated as:

2^nd (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)

4^th / 2^nd Battalion re-designated as: 2^nd (Reserve) Battalion

1^st / 2^nd Battalion and 2^nd / 2^nd Battalion amalgamated to form:
1^st / 2^nd Battalion
3^rd / 2^nd Battalion renumbered as 2^nd / 2^nd Battalion

 

 

Location of operations

Battle Honours awarded to 2^nd (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers):

Somme 1916, '18, Albert 1916, '18, Guillemont, Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Arras 1917, '18, Scarpe 1917, '18, Bullecourt, Ypres 1917, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917, St Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Villers Bretonneux, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Epéhy, Canal du Nord, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1915-18, Gallipoli 1915-16 , Egypt 1915-16

Reformed as: 2^nd (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)

Re-designated as: 2^nd City of London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)

Re-designated as:

 

On duplication of the Territorial Army re-designated as:

 

 

and

 

 

9^th Battalion Amalgamated with 8^th Battalion 22^nd September

12^th Battalion Disbanded 28^th March

9^th Battalion Suspended Animation 6^th May

 

Location of operations

Battle Honours awarded to The Royal Fusiliers attributable to 9^th ( 2^nd City of London)Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment):
Djebel Tebaga, North Africa 1943, Salerno, St Lucia, Battipaglia, Teano, Monte Camino, Gargliano Crossing, Damiano, Anzio, Gothic Line, Coriano, Croce, Valli di Comacchio, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943-45

Both 9^th and 12^th Battalions reformed, amalgamated with change of arm as:

 

Amalgamated without change of title with:

 

562^nd (Mixed) Light Anti-Aircraft and Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery

Re-designated as:

 

Change of arm and amalgamated with:
8^th ( 1^st City of London) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) to become:

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

Reduced to company strength to form: C (The City of London Company, The Royal Fusiliers), Fusilier Volunteers

Re-designated as: C (City of London) Company, 5^th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

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

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, 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 rerganised 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.