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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.
In 1909, the school moved to new premises in Dover, and the Asylum building was taken over by the Territorial Army and renamed the Duke of York's Barracks in 1911. [3] During the First World War it was the headquarters of the 18th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (London Irish Rifles) [4] and of the Middlesex Yeomanry. [5]
The 9th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment was an infantry battalion of the British Army.Part of the Volunteer Force, later the Territorial Force (renamed the Territorial Army in 1920), the battalion was part of the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) and recruited from the north-western suburbs of London.
All of the recruits for the Middlesex Regiment were processed through the Regimental Depot at Mill Hill during the First World War. [7] The barracks ceased to be the home of the Middlesex Regiment when that regiment merged with three other regiments to form the Queen's Regiment at Howe Barracks in Canterbury in 1966. [8]
10th (Service) Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) (Kent County) 23rd (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (2nd Football) 20th (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry (Wearside) (transferred to 124th Brigade March 1918) 123rd Machine Gun Company (joined June 1916, moved to 41st Battalion M.G.C. March 1918)
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [26]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
The RSM became the 5th (Royal South Middlesex Militia) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, on 1 July 1881 (the Royal Westminster or 3rd Middlesex Militia formed the 4th Bn Royal Fusiliers). [ 14 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The Royal Fusiliers established its regimental depot at Hounslow Barracks , which entailed no change for the 5th Bn, which had always ...
The (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Middlesex Regiment. 57th (The West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot; 77th (The East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot; King's Royal Rifle Corps. 60th (The King's Royal Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot; The (Duke of Edinburgh's) Wiltshire Regiment. 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot; 99th Duke of Edinburgh's (Lanarkshire) Regiment ...