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28TH (COUNTY OF LONDON) BATTALION THE LONDON REGIMENT (ARTISTS RIFLES)

1908
28th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Artists Rifles)
Boer War
South Africa 1900-01
The Great War
Three Battalions formed
1914
1st / 28th Battalion 2nd / 28th Battalion
1915
3rd / 28th Battalion formed 1st January
2nd and 3rd Battalions amalgamated as 2nd / 28th Battalion, June
1916
15th (Artists Rifles) Officer Cadet Battalion formed at Gidea Park, Essex
( 2nd / 28th Battalion continues to exist separately, remaining in UK)
Location of operations (all 1st / 28th Battalion)
 
1914
GHQ Troops, France – Bailleul, St Omer, Montreuil and Hesdin
1917
Joined 190th Infantry Brigade, 63rd (Royal Naval) Division
Oppy Wood/Gavrelle
Passchendaele
Welsh Ridge (Marcoing)
1918
Havrincourt Wood
Ypres
Aveluy-Wood
Bouzincourt
Achiet-le-Petit
Thilloy
Moeuvres
Niergnies
Sars-la-Bruyere
Harmignies

Battle Honours awarded to 28th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment
(Artists Rifles):
Ypres 1917, Passchendaele, Somme 1918, St Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Arras 1918, Ancre
1918, Albert 1918, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Cambrai 1918,
Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1914-18
1920
Reformed as:
28th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Artists Rifles)
1922
Re-designated as:
28th London Regiment (Artists Rifles)
1929
Re-designated as a Territorial Battalion of The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
without change of title
1937
Re-designated as:
The Artist Rifles, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
1939
Re-designated as:
163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit
1941
167th and 168th Officer Cadet Training Units merged to join 163rd with no change of title
1947
Reformed as:
The Artists Rifles
1947
Change of arm and re-designated as:
21st (Artists Rifles), Special Air Service Regiment (Territorial Army)
1950
Re-designated as:
21st Special Air Service Regiment (The Artists Rifles) (Territorial Army)
1967
Re-designated as:
21st Special Air Service Regiment (Artists) (Volunteers)
2004
Re-designated as:
21st Special Air Service Regiment (Artists) (Reserve)
 
 
Note:
During WW2 an attempt was made to introduce the Regiment's name (Artists Rifles) as a
sub-title for 56th Division's Reconnaissance Regiment, which served also in 78th Division in
North Africa and Italy. Neither unit adopted this affiliation.
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