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9th Battalion,
The Middlesex Regiment
1859-1967
 
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
 
  1859.10.14 9th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps
raised at Lord's Cricket Grounds, St. John's Wood, London NW
1859.12.30 18th Middlesex RVC at Harrow attached on raising
  1860.03 9th Middlesex (West Middlesex) Rifle Volunteer Corps
  1880.09.03 5th Middlesex (West Middlesex) Rifle Volunteers
18th Middlesex RVC renumbered 9th, still attached
  1881.07.01 volunteer battalion of The Royal Fusiliers
HQ at St. John's Wood Road, London NW (six companies)
  1883.07 [3rd] volunteer battalion of The King's Royal Rifle Corps
  1891.12 5th Middlesex (West Middlesex) Volunteer Rifle Corps
HQ at St. John's Wood
  1892 [4th] volunteer battalion of The King's Royal Rifle Corps
  1899.08.01 absorbed 9th Middlesex VRC (four companies); cadet corps at Harrow School affiliated
  1901 thirteenth company raised
  1902.04.01 Harrow School Cadet Corps separated as 27th Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps
  1904 reduced to twelve companies
  1906.01 absorbed 27th Middlesex VRC as a cadet corps at Harrow School
  1908.04.01 9th Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
transferred to T.F. with HQ at Regent's Park, less cadet corps transferred to OTC
 
  • A Company at Pound Lane, Willesden Green
  • B Company at Pound Lane, Willesden Green
  • C Company at Willesden (det at Stanmore)
  • D Company at Willesden
  • E Company at Willesden
  • F Company at Harrow
  • G Company at Wealdstone
  • H Company at Hendon
19uu HQ moved to Pound Lane, Willesden Green
  1915.03 1/9th Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
renumbered on formation of 2/9th Battalion
  1920.02.07 9th Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Pound Lane, Willesden Green
   
  • A Company at ?
  • B Company at ?
  • C Company at ?
  • D Company at ?
  1938.11.01 9th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment (DCO) (60th Search Light Regiment)
   
  • 429 Battery at Willesden
  • 430 Battery at Willesden
  • 431 Battery at Willesden
  1940.08.01 60th Search Light Regiment, RA (9th Bn, The Middlesex Regiment)
  1942.01.10 converted to LAA role
  1942.02.23 126th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA (9th Bn, The Middlesex Regiment)
   
  • 371 Battery
  • 429 Battery
  • 430 Battery
  • 431 Battery
  1947.01.01 595th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA (9th Bn, The Middlesex Regiment)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Kingsbury
  1949.03.16 595th Light Anti-Aircraft/Searchlight Regiment, RA (9th Bn, The Middlesex Regiment)
  1955.03.10 571st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA (9th Bn, The Middlesex Regiment, DCO)
amalgamated with 571 (Mixed) LAA/SL Regt RA (Middlesex), and 604 (Mixed) LAA/SL Regt (The Royal Fusiliers)
   
  1961.05.01 amalgamated with 7th Battalion, The Middlesex Regt and 8th Battalion, The Middlesex Regt, to form 5th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
     
     
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Volunteers
History:
pip The 9th Battalion, 1919-1939, by Alec Powell
pip 60 (Middlesex) SL Rgt RA(TA), by Derek Barton (The Royal Artillery 1939-45)
pip 126 (Middlesex) LAA Rgt RA(TA), by Derek Barton (The Royal Artillery 1939-45)
   
Deployment and War Service of Units:
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Biography and Gallantry Awards:
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Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
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Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
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  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

South Africa 1900-02

The Great War: [contributed to honours of parent regiment]

The Second World War: [none awarded to artillery]

  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
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Record of Colours:
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  Uniforms and Badges
   
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  Honorary Colonels Index of Royal Colonels
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1880.10.20 Gen. Sir William Gordon Cameron, GCB, VD [Col. K O R Regt]
<1915-20> vacant
1922.01.10 Hon. Col. J. L. Blumfeld, TD
1937.03.24 Lt-Col. W.P. Hewett, TD
1939.07.03 Col. Gerald Beach, CB, OBE, TD, DL, JP
1951.06.01 Lt-Col. (Bt. Col.) John Newton Lamont, MC, TD
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  Traditions
 
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  Bibliography How To Find Books
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