The Great War

Four Battalions formed

1^st / 8^th Battalion 2^nd / 8^th Battalion

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

3^rd / 8^th Battalion 4^th / 8^th Battalion

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

3^rd / 8^th Battalion re-designated as 2^nd / 8^th Battalion

1^st / 8^th Battalion disembodied

 

Location of operations

Battle Honours awarded to The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) attributable to 1^st / 8^th Battalion:

Ypres 1915, St Julien, Frezenberg, Somme 1916, '18, Albert 1918, Ginchy, Flers- Courcelette, 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

Battle Honours awarded to The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)attributable to 2^nd / 8^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 / 8^th Battalion: Defence of Escaut Odon, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Odon, Orne, Hill 112, Bourguebus Ridge, Mont Pincon, Falaise, Seine 1944, Nederrijn, Geilenkirchen, Reichwald, Rhine, Bremen, North West Europe 1940, '44-45

2^nd / 8^th Battalion: Odon, Hill 112, Mont Pincon, Caen, Seine 1944, Venraij, Meijel, Reichwald, Goch, Rhine, North West Europe 1944-45

 

Reformed as:

 

 

concurrently designated:

 

Re-designated as:

 

Amalgamated with:

 

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

 

571^st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery ( 9^th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment)

 

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

 

A and B Companies, 10^th (Territorial) Battalion , The Queen's Regiment (Middlesex)

10^th (Territorial) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment (Middlesex) 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) 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 , 11^th , 17^th , 19^th , 22^nd , 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:

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.