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created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated
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The
Finsbury Rifles |
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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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1860.08 |
3rd Administrative
Battalion, Middlesex Rifle Volunteers
formed with HQ at ?
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- 39th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps
at Clerkenwell, raised 6 Mar. 1860 as Clerkenwell Rifle Corps
and soon redesignated as 39th Mx RVC
- 40th Middlesex Rifle
Volunteer Corps at Gray's Inn, raised 30 Apr. 1860
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1861 |
39th Middlesex
Rifle Volunteer Corps
admin bn broken up and 40th
RVC became independent |
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1862.09 |
39th Middlesex
Rifle Volunteer Corps (The Finsbury Rifle Volunteer Corps) |
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1880.09.03 |
21st Middlesex
Rifle Volunteers (The Finsbury Rifle Volunteer Corps) |
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1881.07.01 |
volunteer battalion
of The Rifle Brigade |
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1883 |
[7th] volunteer
battalion of The King's Royal Rifle
Corps |
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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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1891.12 |
21st Middlesex
(Finsbury) Volunteer Rifle Corps |
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1908.04.01 |
11th (County
of London) Battalion, The
London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles)
transferred to T.F. with HQ and coys at Penton
Street, Pentonville (Finsbury), London N |
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- A Company
- B Company
- C Company
- D Company
- E Company
- F Company
- G Company
- H Company
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1915.03 |
1/11th (County
of London) Battalion, The
London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles)
renumbered on formation of 2/11th Battalion |
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1916.07.07 |
transferred
to the corps of The King's Royal Rifle
Corps |
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1920.02.07 |
11th (County
of London) Battalion, The
London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Penton Street, Pentonville,
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- A Company at ?
- B Company at ?
- C Company at ?
- D Company at ?
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1922 |
11th London
Regiment (Finsbury Rifles) |
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1935.12.15 |
61st (Finsbury
Rifles) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, RA
HQ at Pentonville |
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- 170 Battery at
Finchley
- 171 Battery at Pentonville
- 195 Battery at Finchley
- AA MG Battery at Pentonville, redesignated
1 May 1937 as 224 LAA Bty
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1938.10 |
61st (Middlesex)
Anti-Aircraft Brigade, RA
224 LAA Bty separated
to form 12
(Finsbury Rifles) LAA Regt [q.v. for continuing
Finsbury Rifles lineage]; 272 Battery
formed and regimented |
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1939.01.01 |
61st (Middlesex)
Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA |
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1940.06.01 |
61st (Middlesex)
Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA |
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1947.04.01 |
461st (Middlesex)
Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Finchley |
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1955.07.01 |
disbanded |
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History: |
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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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(Middlesex) HAA Rgt RA(TA), by Derek Barton (The Royal Artillery
1939-45) |
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Deployment and War Service of Units: |
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Biography
and Gallantry Awards: |
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Victoria
Crosses, by Michael Chapman (VC Reference) |
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Associations,
Forums and Re-Enactors: |
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[no external sites have been found] |
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Museums,
Monuments, Memorials and Chapels: |
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[no external sites have been found] |
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South Africa
1900-02
The Great War (3 battalions):
Bullecourt, Ypres1917,
Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, France and Flanders
1917-18, Suvla,
Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915,
Egypt 1915-17,
Gaza,
El Mughar, Jaffa, Tell 'Asur, Megiddo, Sharon,
Palestine 1917-18
The Second World War: [none
awarded to artillery]
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Record of Colours: |
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1883.04.04 |
Capt. F.T. Penton, VD |
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1923.12.15 |
Lt-Col. (Hon. Col.) William Bingham (Compton),
6th Marquess of Northampton, DSO |
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1934.03.03 |
vacant |
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1934.05.23 |
Maj. C.F. Penton |
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Miscellaneous
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Full Histories:
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