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These units were distinguished from the 1st line by a '2/' prefix, so that the 2/1st London Brigade consisting of the 2/1st, 2/2nd etc battalions of the London Regiment was created in the 2/1st London Division. Initially, the 2nd Line was regarded as a reserve for the TF overseas, but its units were soon being prepared for overseas service ...
1st North Midland Brigade: City of London: 1st City of London Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) (part) 1st City of London Brigade: County of London: 1st City of London Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) (part) 6th County of London Brigade: 7th County of London Brigade: 3rd Kent (Royal Arsenal) Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers)
Artillery House, Handel St, London. Opened in 1913 as headquarters of the 1st City of London Brigade, RFA, and shared with the 1st (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment. After World War II it was shared with the City of London Yeomanry. Today (2013) it is known as Yeomanry House and is HQ of the University of London Officers' Training Corps.
King's College, University of London. Official History 1914: Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, Military Operations France and Belgium, 1914: Mons, the Retreat to the Seine, the Marne and the Aisne, August–October 1914 3rd revised edn 1933 (reprint Imperial War Museum, 1992) ( ISBN 1870423569 ).
The 167th (1st London) Brigade was an infantry formation of the British Territorial Army that saw active service in both the First and Second World Wars.It was the first Territorial formation to go overseas in 1914, garrisoned Malta, and then served with the 56th (London) Infantry Division on the Western Front.
In September 1939, the district included the 1st and 2nd London Divisions, the 22nd Armoured Brigade, the Life Guards and Royal Horse Guards and five Guards infantry battalions. [5] During the Second World War the operational headquarters of London District was temporarily based at Leconfield House in Curzon Street. [6]
The Middlesex Militia was an auxiliary [a] military force in the county of Middlesex in South East England.From their formal organisation as Trained Bands, in 1572 and their service during the Armada Crisis and in the English Civil War, the Militia regiments of Middlesex served during times of international tension and all of Britain's major wars.
The London Division, Royal Artillery, was an administrative grouping of garrison units of the Royal Artillery and Artillery Volunteers within the British Army's Home and Woolwich Districts from 1882 to 1889.