7^th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment

Three Battalions formed

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

3^rd / 7^th Battalion

Re-designated a Territorial Battalion of The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)

without change of title

3^rd / 7^th Battalion re-designated as:

7^th (Reserve) Battalion

 

Location of operations

Battle Honours awarded to 7^th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment:

Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916, '18, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Messines 1917, Ypres 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917, St Quentin, Avre, Villers Bretonneux, Amiens, Albert 1918, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, Epéhy, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1915-18

Reformed as: 7^th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment

Re-designated as: 7^th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)

Amalgamated with 8^th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)

To become:

7^th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)

Re-designated as:

7^th City of London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)

Change of arm and re-designated as: 32^nd ( 7^th City of London) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers

Change of arm and re-designated as: 32^nd ( 7^th City of London) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery WW2 Location of operations Air Defence of Britain

Reformed as: 567^th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery ( 7^th City of London)

Re-designated as: 567^th (Mixed) Light Anti-Aircraft and Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery ( 7^th City of London)

Amalgamated with: 265^th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery [formerly: 8^th London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery] 460^th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (City of London) [formerly: 4^th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment] 569^th (Queen's Own) Light Anti-Aircraft and Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery [formerly: 20^th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Blackheath and Woolwich)]

To become part of:

265^th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

Amalgamated with:

458^th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery [formerly: 4^th Home Counties Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Kent (Fortress) Royal Engineers 6^th (Cyclist) Battalion, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)]

570^th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery [formerly: 21^st (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment, (First Surrey Rifles) 24^th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (The Queen's)]

To become part of:

265^th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

Re-designated as: 265^th Light Air Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery

Amalgamated with:

part of The Kent and County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) [formerly: Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles (Duke of Connaught's Own) The West Kent Yeomanry (Queen's Own) 3^rd County of London Yeomanry, (Sharpshooters)]

To become part of:

The London and Kent 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 Greater London Regiment, Royal Artillery (Territorials) The Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment), Royal Artillery (Territorials)

[formerly: 3^rd , 6^th (City of London) 11^th , 17^th , 19^th , 22^nd and 23^rd (County of London) Battalions, The London Regiment 3^rd Battalion, 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:

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.