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1/1st (T.F.) (City of London) Battalion London Regiment (from 13 March 1915 until 8 February 1916) 1/8th (T.F.) Battalion Middlesex Regiment (from 27 August 1915 until 8 February 1916) 25th Machine Gun Company M.G.C. (formed 10 January 1916, left 20 January 1918) 25th Trench Mortar Battery (formed January 1916) 70th Brigade
The 8th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army that was active in both the First and Second World Wars. The division was first formed in October 1914 during the First World War, initially consisting mainly of soldiers of the Regular Army and served on the Western Front throughout the war, sustaining many casualties ...
24th Middlesex VRC: 8th (City of London) Bn, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles) Honourable Artillery Company (part) 26th (City of London) Bn, The London Regiment (Honourable Artillery Company) Title not adopted , and unit continued to be known as: Honourable Artillery Company Infantry Battalion County of London 1st Middlesex VRC (Queen ...
The existing Post Office Rifles was redesignated as the 1/8th Battalion, London Regiment when a second Post Office Rifles battalion, the 2/8th Londons, was formed in September 1914. [5] In 1915 a third line battalion, the 3/8th was formed. [5] Between them, the three battalions earned 19 battle honours. [6]
Near the end of 1914, when regular army battalions returned to Europe from serving around the British Empire, they formed the 7th and 8th Division, with the 20th–25th brigades. [3] As the war progressed, three more regular army divisions were formed the 27th , 28th and 29th , with their brigades being numbered from 80th–88th.
The 30th (Works) Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment was the first to be established in August 1916. It was soon filled and a second unit, the 31st (Works) Battalion, was also raised. [1] Citizens liable to serve were only those who had been born in Britain or brought there before the age of 10 and who had remained resident since that point. [4]
On 8 September, the 133rd Brigade was detached from the division. It was briefly assigned to the 8th Armoured Division [50] before being transferred to the 10th Armoured Division on 29 September as a lorried infantry unit. [61] The division started the Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October – 4 November) with two brigades. [60]
The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1966. The regiment was formed, as the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment), in 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms when the 57th (West Middlesex) and 77th (East Middlesex) Regiments of Foot were amalgamated with the county's militia and rifle volunteer units.