Four Battalions formed

1^st / 3^rd Battalion 2^nd / 3^rd Battalion 1915 3^rd / 3^rd Battalion 4^th / 3^rd Battalion

Re-designated as:

3^rd (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)

4^th / 3^rd Battalion re-designated as: 3^rd (Reserve) Battalion 1^st / 3^rd Battalion and 2^nd / 3^rd Battalion amalgamated

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

 

Location of operations

Battle Honours awarded to 3^rd (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers):

Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Somme 1916, '18, Albert 1916, '18, Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Bullecourt, Ypres 1917, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917, St Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Villers Bretonneux, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Epéhy, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1915-18, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1915-16

Reformed as: 3^rd (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)

Re-designated as: 3^rd City of London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)

Re-designated as:

 

Change of arm and re-designated as:

 

 

Re-designated as:

 

Location of operations

 

Air defence of Britain

Reformed as:

 

Re-designated as:

 

 

Amalgamated without change of title with:

 

610^th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment

Amalgamated with:

 

571^st (Mixed) Light Anti-Aircraft and Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery and 595^th Light

 

Anti-Aircraft and Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery ( 9^th Battalion, The Middlesex

 

Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own))

 

To become:

 

 

Amalgamated with:

 

7^th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)

 

8^th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)

 

To become:

 

Reduced to form part of:

 

D Company (Middlesex), 5^th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment

 

Amalgamated with:

 

101^st Field Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers

 

[formerly: 2^nd London Divsional Royal Engineers]

 

To become:

 

Amalgamated with: 6^th (Territorial) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment (Queen's Surreys) The Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment), Royal Artillery (Territorials) The Greater London Regiment, Royal Artillery (Territorials) The London and Kent Regiment, Royal Artillery (Territorials)

[formerly: 4^th , 6^th , 7^th , 8^th (City of London) 11^th , 17^th , 19^th , 20^th , 21^st , 22^nd , 23^rd , 24^th (County of London) Battalions, The London Regiment and 3^rd Battalion, London Scottish ( 97^th Anti-Aircraft Regiment) 4^th , 5^th Battalion, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) 5^th , 6^th Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment 5^th , 6^th , 7^th Battalions, The Essex Regiment 6^th (Cyclist) Battalion, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1^st , 4^th , 6^th , 7^th , 8^th , London Brigades, Royal Field Artillery 4^th Home Counties Brigade, Royal Field Artillery 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 1975 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 1986 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 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

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.