Three Battalions formed

1^st / 9^th Battalion 2^nd / 9^th Battalion 3^rd / 9^th Battalion

Re-designated as a Territorial Battalion of The King's Royal Rifle Corps without change of title 3^rd / 9^th Battalion re-designated as 9^th (Reserve) Battalion

 

Location of operations

Battle Honours awarded to 9^th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen Victoria's):

Hill 60, Ypres 1915, '17, Gravenstafel, St Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Somme 1916, '18, Albert 1916, '18, Guillemont, Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917, Bapaume 1918, Villers Bretonneux, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Epéhy, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1914-18

Reformed as: 9^th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen Victoria's)

Re-designated as: 9^th London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)

Re-designated as: Queen Victoria's Rifles, The King's Royal Rifle Corps

On duplication of the Territorial Army, redesignated as: 1^st Battalion, Queen Victoria's Rifles, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
and
2^nd Battalion, Queen Victoria's Rifles, The King's Royal Rifle Corps

Re-designated as:
7^th Battalion (Queen Victoria's Rifles), The King's Royal Rifle Corps
and
8^th Battalion (Queen Victoria's Rifles), The King's Royal Rifle Corps

Location of operations Battle Honours awarded to 7^th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
Calais 1940, North West Europe 1940

Reformed as:
7^th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, (Queen Victoria's Rifles)

Amalgamated with:
11^th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps (Queen's Westminsters)
[formerly: 15^th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment

 

(Prince of Wales's Own, Civil Service Rifles)

 

16^th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen's

 

Westminster Rifles)]

 

To become:

 

Amalgamated with:

 

London Rifle Brigade/Rangers, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)

 

[formerly: 5^th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment

 

(London Rifle Brigade)

 

12^th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (The Rangers)]

 

4^th Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

 

To become:

 

 

and (with London Rifle Brigade/Rangers only):

 

Became:

 

 

and:

 

Royal Green Jackets London (Cadre only)

Under the Strategic Defence Review of November 1998

The London Regiment

absorbed two companie from the 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 Companies, The London Regiment transferred for training only to:

The Royal Rifles Volunteers

The Royal Rifles Volunteers re-designated as:

7^th Battalion, The Rifles

F Company 7 Rifles returned to The London Regiment with the title of F (Rifles) Company.  With the raising a new G (Guards) Company, The London Regiment was restyled as 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 with the rifle companies redesignated with new titles, having become Army Reserve companies of the 4 senior Regiments of Guards.   

The company titles, in order of precedence, are:

Ypres Company (Reserve Company Grenadier Guards), formerly G (Guards) Company

No. 17 Company (Reserve Company Coldsteam Guards), fomerly F (Rifles) Company

G (Messines) Company (Reserve Company Scots Guards), formerly A (London Scottish) Coy

15 (Loos) Company (Reserve Company Irish Guards), formerly D (London Irish) Company