Three Battalions formed

1^st / 6^th Battalion 2^nd / 6^th Battalion

3^rd / 6^th Battalion 1916 Re-designated as a Territorial Battalion of The King's Royal Rifle Corps without

change of title 3^rd / 6^th Battalion re-designated as: 6^th (Reserve) Battalion

 

Location of operations

Battle Honours awarded to 6^th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (City of London Rifles):

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

Reformed as: 6^th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (City of London Rifles)

Re-designated as: 6^th City of London Regiment (City of London Rifles)

Change of arm and re-designated as: 31^st (City of London) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers

Change of arm and re-designated as:

 

Re-designated as:
123^rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (City of London Rifles)

Location of operations

 

Air Defence of Britain

North West Europe

Reformed as:

 

Re-designated as:

 

 

Amalgamated with:

 

674^th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

 

To become:

 

Re-designated as:

 

Amalgamated with:

 

565^th (Mixed) Light Anti-Aircraft and Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery

 

598^th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery ( 4^th Battalion, The Queen's Royal Regiment

 

(West Surrey)

 

To form:

 

P and S Batteries, 565^th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

Amalgamated with:

 

5^th Battalion, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

 

6^th (Bermondsey) Battalion, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

 

[formerly: 22^nd (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen's)]

 

To become:

 

Amalgamated with:

 

4^th Battalion, Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment

 

[formerly: 23^rd (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment]

 

6^th Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment

 

To form:

 

 

and part of

 

6^th (Territorial) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment (Queen's Surreys)

5^th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment, and

6^th (Territorial) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment (Queen's Surreys) amalgamated with: 10^th (Territorial) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment (Middlesex) The Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment), Royal Artillery (Territorials) The Greater London Regiment, Royal Artillery (Territorials) The London and Kent Regiment, Royal Artillery (Territorials)

[formerly: 3^rd , 4^th , 7^th , 8^th (City of London) 11^th , 17^th , 19^th , 20^th , 21^st , 22^nd , 23^rd and 24^th (County of London) Battalions, The London Regiment 3^rd Battalion, London Scottish ( 97^th Anti-Aircraft Regiment) 7^th , 8^th and 9^th Battalions, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) 5^th , 6^th and 7^th Battalions, The Essex Regiment 5^th Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment 6^th (Cyclist) Battalion, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) 1^st , 4^th , 6^th , 7^th and 8^th London Brigades, Royal Field Artillery 4^th Home Counties Brigade, Royal Field Artillery 2^nd London Divisional Royal Engineers Kent (Fortress), Royal Engineers The Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment) part of The Kent and County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)]

To form:

6^th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment 1975 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 1986 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.