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

Four Battalions formed

1^st / 7^th Battalion 2^nd / 7^th Battalion

3^rd / 7^th Battalion 4^th / 7^th Battalion

1^st / 7^th Battalion and 1^st / 8^th Battalion amalgamated (for 8 months)

1^st / 7^th Battalion absorbed 2^nd / 8^th Battalion and 2^nd / 7^th Battalion 4^th / 7^th Battalion re-designated 7^th (Reserve) Battalion 7^th (Reserve) Battalion absorbed 8^th , 9^th , 10^th (Reserve) Battalions

2^nd / 7^th Battalion disbanded 15^th June 3^rd / 7^th Battalion re-designated 2^nd / 7^th Battalion

1^st / 7^th Battalion disembodied

 

Location of operations

Battle Honours awarded to The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) attributable to 1^st / 7^th Battalion:

Aubers, Somme 1916, '18, Albert 1918, Ginchy, Flers-Courcellette, Morval, Le Transloy, Arras 1917, '18, Scarpe 1917, '18, Ypres 1917 , Langemarck 1917, Cambrai 1917, '18, Canal du Nord, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18
attributable to 2^nd / 7^th Battalion:
Egypt 1915-17

Reformed as:

 

Re-designated as:

 

On duplication of the Territorial Army re-designated as:

 

 

and

 

 

 

Location of operations Battle Honours awarded to The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) attributable to:

 

1^st / 7^th Battalion: Dyle , Defence of Escaut, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing , Breville, Orne, Troarn, Seine 1944, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Reichswald, Rhine, Lingen, Bremen, North West Europe, 1940, '44-45, El Alamein, Advance to Tripoli, Mareth, Akarit, Djebel Roumana, North Africa 1942-43, Francoforte, Sferro, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943

 

2^nd / 7^th Battalion: Anzio, Carroceto, Gothic Line, Monte Grande, Italy 1944-45

Reformed as:

 

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

 

[formerly: 11^th Battalion ( 8^th Middlesex), The Parachute Regiment] 571^st Light Anti-Aircraft

 

Regiment, Royal Artillery ( 9^th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's

 

Own))

 

[formerly: 595^th Light Anti-Aircraft and Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery ( 9^th Battalion,

 

The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own))]

 

604^th (Mixed) Light Anti-Aircraft and Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery

 

[formerly: 604^th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery (Royal Fusiliers)

 

69^th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery (3^rd City of London)

 

10^th (3^rd City of London) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (69^th

 

Searchlight Regiment)]

 

To become:

 

Reformed as:

 

 

and

 

10^th (Territorial) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment (Middlesex) was reduced to Cadre role,

 

Home Defence

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

 

amalgamated with:

 

6^th (Territorial) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment (Queen's Surreys)

 

The Greater London Regiment, Royal Artillery (Territorials)

 

The Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment), Royal Artillery (Territorials)

 

[formerly: 3^rd , 6^th , 11^th , 17^th , 19^th , 22^nd and 23^rd Battalions, The London Regiment

 

3^rd Battalion, The London Scottish ( 97^th Anti-Aircraft Regiment)

 

4^th and 5^th Battalions, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

 

5^th and 6^th Battalions, The East Surrey Regiment

 

5^th , 6^th and 7^th Battalions, The Essex Regiment

 

7^th , 8^th and 9^th Battalions, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)

 

1^st , 4^th , 6^th and 7^th London Brigades, Royal Field Artillery

 

2^nd London Divisional Royal Engineers

 

The Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment)]

 

To become:

 

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, 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: 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 (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.