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1798 |
Bank of England
Volunteers |
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Somerset
House Volunteers |
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1802 |
The Bank
of England Corps |
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1814 |
disbanded |
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1860 |
four
corps raised from employees of government offices: |
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- 21st Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps
at Somerset House, raised 2 Jan. 1860 by Audit
Office and Post Office employees
- 27th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps
at Somerset House, raised 10 Feb. 1860 by Inland Revenue
employees
- 31st Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps
at Whitehall, raised 25 Feb. 1860 by employees in various Whitehall
offices
- 34th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps
at the Admiralty, raised 22 Feb. 1860
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1860.06 |
21st
Middlesex (Civil Service) Rifle Volunteer Corps
formed by consolidation of the four corps
(in four companies) with HQ at Somerset House |
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1866 |
reorganised
in eight companies: |
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- A (Audit Office) Company at Audit
Office; moved later? to Metropolitan Water Board and Inland
Revenue
- B (Post Office) Company at Post Office
Savings Bank
- C (Post Office) Company at General
Post Office
- D (Inland Revenue) Company at Inland
Revenue
- E (Inland Revenue) Company at Customs
House and Inland Revenue
- F (Whitehall) Company
at Whitehall; absorbed July 1866 by G Coy
- G (Whitehall) Company at Whitehall
- H (Admiralty) Company at Admiralty
- K Company at Bank of England, formed
July 1866 by clerks and senior staff
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1875.12.01 |
50th
Middlesex (Bank of England) RVC raised
at Somerset House by porters and messengers of Bank of England and
attached for drill and admin (one company) |
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1880.09.03 |
12th
Middlesex (Civil Service) Rifle Volunteer Corps
50th RVC renumbered
25th RVC |
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1881.07.01 |
[5th]
volunteer battalion of The King's
Royal Rifle Corps
(with 25th RVC attached) |
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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 |
12th
Middlesex (Civil Service) Volunteer Rifle Corps
25th RVC also redesignated
VRC |
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1892.06.01 |
absorbed
25th VRC |
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1893 |
26th
Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps attached
for drill and administration |
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1898.05 |
The
Prince of Wales's Own 12th Middlesex (Civil Service) Volunteer Rifle
Corps |
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1900 |
F
Company formed at London County Council
and Insurance Offices; I (Cyclist) Company formed
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1902 |
26th
Middlesex VRC transferred to 2nd Middlesex
VRC |
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1903 |
Civil
Service Cadet Corps formed and affiliated |
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1907.04.01 |
25th
(Bank of England) VRC disbanded |
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1908.04.01 |
15th
(County of London) Battalion, The
London Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own, Civil Service Rifles)
transferred to T.F. with HQ and coys at Somerset
House, Westminster |
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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 |
1/15th
(County of London) Battalion, The
London Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own, Civil Service Rifles)
renumbered on formation of
2/15th 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 |
15th
(County of London) Battalion, The
London Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own, Civil Service Rifles)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ and coys at
Somerset House, Westminster |
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- A Company
- B Company
- C Company
- D Company
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1921.12.31 |
amalgamated
with 16th (County
of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles),
to form 16th
(County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen's Westminster
and Civil Service Rifles) |
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