7th City of London Regiment [UK]

Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills

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Page created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated 15.04.2006

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	7th City of London Regiment
	1861-1961
	United Kingdom


Titles & Lineage History & War Service Battle Honours Colours, Standards and Guidons	Badges and Uniforms Colonels Traditions Bibliography

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.

How to find information about individuals who served in this corps

Titles and Lineage

English County Index
Alphabetic Index of Titles


	1861	3rd London Rifle Volunteer Corps
	1881	11th Volunteer Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
	1889	battalion came within boundaries of new County of London, formed from parts of Middlesex, Kent and Surrey
	1891	3rd London Volunteer Rifle Corps
	1908.04.01	7th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment transferred to T.F. with HQ at Sun Street, Finsbury Square, Shoreditch, London EC
		A Company at Finsbury Square, Shoreditch B Company at Finsbury Square, Shoreditch C Company at Finsbury Square, Shoreditch D Company at Elm Grove, Hammersmith E Company at Elm Grove, Hammersmith F Company at Finsbury Square, Shoreditch G Company at Finsbury Square, Shoreditch H Company at Finsbury Square, Shoreditch
	1915.03	1/7th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment renumbered on formation of 2/7th Battalion
	1916.07.07	transferred to the corps of The Middlesex Regiment
	1920.02.07	7th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Sun Street, Finsbury Square, EC2
		A Company at ? B Company at ? C Company at ? D Company at ?
	1921	7th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Post Office Rifles) absorbed 8th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
	1922	7th City of London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
	1935	32nd (7th City of London) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, RE
	1940	32nd (7th City of London) Searchlight Regiment RA
	1947.04.01	567th Searchlight Regiment RA (7th City of London) reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Shoreditch
	1949.03.16	567th (M) LAA/Searchlight Regiment RA (7th City of London)
	1955.03.10	P (7th City of London) Battery, 265th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA battery formed at Lewisham by amalgamation of 567 LAA/SL Regt with 265 (8th London) HAA Regt, 460 HAA Regt (City of London), and 569 (The Queen's Own) (M) LAA/SL Regt
	1961.02.10	Q (London) Battery, 265th Regiment, RA old 265 LAA Regt reduced to one bty at Foots Cray, Eltham, London, upon amalgamation with 458 (Kent) LAA Regt (less one bty), and 570 LAA Regt (First Surrey Rifles), and 7th Londons lineage discontinued)

History (Links) & War Service

Introduction to Volunteers


	*History:*
		The London Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War)
		The London Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
		7th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment ('The Shiney Seventh'), 1914-1918, by Paul Reed.
		32 (7th City of London) SL Rgt RA(TA), by Derek Barton (The Royal Artillery 1939-45)

	*Deployment and War Service of Units:*


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Battle Honours

Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars


	South Africa 1900-02 The Great War (3 battalions): Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Messines 1917, Ypres 1917, Menin Road, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917, Avre, Villers Bretonneux, Amiens, Albert 1918, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1915-18

Colours, Standards and Guidons

Introduction to Colours


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Uniforms and Badges

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Uniform:

Honorary Colonels

Index of Royal Colonels



	1892.04.13	Hon. Col. R.P. Laurie, CB, VD
	1904.10.15	Hon. Col. E.C. Stevenson, VD
	1923.03.28	Col. A. Maxwell, CB, CMG, DSO, TD
	1935.07.20	J. Trevor

Traditions


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Bibliography

How To Find Books


		Planck. C. Digby. History of the 7th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment, embracing the 3rd London and the 32nd Searchlight Regiment, R.A. (7th City of London). London : Old Comrades' Association, 1946.