Four Battalions formed

1^st / 9^th Battalion 2^nd / 9^th Battalion

3^rd / 9^th Battalion 4^th / 9^th Battalion

3^rd / 9^th Battalion re-designated as 9^th (Reserve) Battalion

 

7^th (Reserve) Battalion absorbed 8^th , 9^th , 10^th (Reserve) Battalions

2^nd / 9^th Battalion disbanded

1^st / 9^th Battalion disembodied

Location of operations

 

1^st / 9^th Battalion

 

India

 

Basr

 

Kut

 

Najaf

 

Tikrit

 

Fatha Gorge

 

Lesser Zab River

 

Sharqat

 

Battle Honours awarded to The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)

 

attributable to 1^st / 9^th Battalion:

 

Reformed as:

 

Re-designated as:

 

Change of arm and re-designated as:

 

 

Home Defence

Change of arm and re-designated as:

 

 

Re-designated as:

 

 

Deployed to North West Europe as a Mobile Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment

 

Location of operations

 

Arromanches

 

Antwerp

 

Rosendaal

 

Breda

 

S'Hertogenbosch

 

Tilburg

 

Nijmegen Bridge

Rotterdam

 

Dordrecht

 

Minefield clearance

 

Walcheren

 

Overflackee

 

Frontier duty – Cleve

Disbanded – Goch

Reformed as:

 

 

Re-designated as:

 

Amalgamated with:

 

571^st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

 

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)

 

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

 

To become:

 

 

Amalgamated with:

 

7^th Battalion and 8^th Battalion

 

[formerly: 11^th Battalion ( 8^th Middlesex) The Parachute Regiment]

 

To become:

 

Reformed as:

 

 

and

 

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 Surrey) 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 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:

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.