Three Battalions formed

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

3^rd / 8^th Battalion

Re-designated as a Territorial Battalion of The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) without change of title 3^rd / 8^th Battalion re-designated as 8^th (Reserve)

Battalion Location of operations

Battle Honours attributable to 8^th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Post Office Rifles), awarded to 7^th City of London Regiment (Post Office Rifles):

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

Reformed as:

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

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

To become:

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

7^th City of London Regiment (Post Office Rifles) See the progress of the Regiment from this point forward with the previous Regiment entry, under the new designation adopted in 1922.