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created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated
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1st City of London Regiment
(The Royal Fusiliers)
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United
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Note:
This
is a battalion history of the part-time reserves, which are normally
liable for full-time active service only in an emergency. See the
main regimental page(s) as linked below for more information.
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1859.12.13 |
19th Middlesex
Rifle Volunteer Corps |
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1880.09.03 |
10th Middlesex
Rifle Volunteer Corps |
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1881.07.01 |
volunteer battalion
of The Royal Fusiliers (City of London
Regiment) |
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1883.07 |
1st Volunteer
Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City
of London Regiment) |
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1889 |
battalion
came within boundaries of new County of London, formed from parts
of Middlesex, Kent and Surrey |
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1908.04.01 |
1st (City of
London) Battalion, The
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
transferred to T.F. with HQ at Fitzroy Square,
London W |
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- A Company at Handel Street, Bloomsbury
- B Company at
Handel Street, Bloomsbury
- C Company at Handel Street, Bloomsbury
- D Company at Battersea Square
- E Company at Battersea Square
- F Company at Handel Street,
Bloomsbury
- G Company at Handel Street, Bloomsbury
- H Company at Handel Street, Bloomsbury
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HQ
moved to Handel Street, Bloomsbury, London WC |
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1915.03 |
1/1st (City
of London) Battalion, The
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
renumbered on formation of 2/1st Battalion |
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1916.07.07 |
transferred
to the corps of The Royal Fusiliers
(City of London Regiment) |
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1920.02.07 |
1st (City of
London) Battalion, The
London Regiment (The Royal Fusiliers)
reconsituted in T.A. with HQ at Handel Street,
Bloomsbury, London WC1 |
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- A Company at ?
- B Company at ?
- C Company at ?
- D Company at ?
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1922 |
1st City of
London Regiment
(The Royal Fusiliers) |
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1937.08.10 |
8th (1st City
of London) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers
(City of London Regiment) |
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1939.04.19 |
formed
duplicate 11th Battalion |
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1947.04.01 |
reconstituted
in T.A. with HQ at Bloomsbury, and concurrently amalgamated with 11th
Battalion |
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- A Company at Bloomsbury
- B Company at Bloomsbury
- C Company at Bloomsbury
- D Company at Bloomsbury
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1961.05.01 |
The City of
London Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers
(City of London Regiment)
absorbed 624th
Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (Royal Fusiliers) |
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- A Company at ?
- B Company at ?
- C Company at ?
- D Company at ?
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1967.04.01 |
C
Company (The City of London Company, Royal Fusiliers), Fusilier
Volunteers
battalion disbanded and concurrently reconstituted
in TAVR II as a single company at Balham, London |
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1968.04.23 |
C
Company (City of London), 5th
(V) Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers |
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1988.05.16 |
C
(City of London) Company, 8th
(V) Battalion, The Queen's Fusiliers (City of London)
at Balham and St Mary Cray |
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1993.04.20 |
C
(City of London Fusiliers) Company, The
London Regiment
at Balham, London with Pln at Camberwell, London,
amalgamation of A Coy and pln of C Coy, 8th
Bn, The Queen's Fusiliers (other personnel of C Coy amalgamated
with HQ Coy, The London Regt to form its Assault Pioneer Pln at Camberwell)
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Fulham
det transferred from F
Coy |
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2006.04.01 |
Fulham
element disbanded |
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History: |
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C
(City of London Fusiliers) Company, The London Regiment (Army
site) |
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C
(City of London Fusiliers) Company (Reserve Forces and Cadets
of London site) |
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1st
(City of London) Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1914-1918,
by Paul Reed. |
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The
London Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great
War) |
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The
London Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918) |
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Deployment and War Service of Units: |
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1/1st (City of London)
Battalion, The London Regiment [1914-1919]  |
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2/1st (City of London) Battalion, The
London Regiment [1916-1918] |
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1st (Reserve) (City of London) Battalion,
The London Regiment [1916-1918] |
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11th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers
[1939-1947] |
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Biography
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Forums and Re-Enactors: |
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South Africa
1900-02
The Great War (4 battalions): Aubers, Somme
1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18,
Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe
1917 '18, Bullecourt, Ypres 1917, Langemarck 1917, Menin
Road, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917, Hindenburg Line,
Canal du Nord, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1915-18,
Gallipoli 1915-16,
Egypt 1916
The Second World War: [honours awarded jointly with The
Royal Fusiliers]
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1898.03.16 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Henry Trotter, GCVO |
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1907.03.03 |
Capt. (Hon. Maj.) Sir Herbert Merton Jessel,
Bt., CB, CMG |
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1923.07.14 |
Capt. (Hon. Col.) Henry George Charles (Lascelles),
6th Earl of Harewood, KG, GCVO, DSO, TD, ADC
[consort of Princess
Mary, The Princess Royal; also 5th
Bn W Yorks Regt] |
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Col. E. H. Hillersdon, DSO, TD |
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C (City of London Fusiliers) Company,
The London Regiment: |
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1993.04.20 |
Col. Patrick Frank Shervington, MBE |
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Brig. Roy Maddox Wilde, CBE |
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2005.07.01 |
Col. N.P. Easton, QVRM, TD |
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