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The regiment was re-formed as 41 (Princess Louise's Kensington) Signal Regiment in 1961 and became a trunk communications Signal Regiment with squadrons in Portsmouth, Coulsdon and Hammersmith. In 1967, with the reorganisation of the Territorial Army, the unit became a squadron of 31 (City of London) Signal Regiment .
The 22nd Royal Fusiliers (Kensington) and the 13th London Regiment (Princess Louise's Kensingtons) share a war memorial in front of St Mary Abbots Church in Kensington High Street. It was unveiled on 1 July 1922 in the presence of Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll and Lt-Gen Sir Francis Lloyd (who originally suggested merging the Kensington ...
The Regimental Colour is in the regiment's facing colour, yellow, and bears a crimson circle inscribed with 'The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's)' surmounted by a crown in the middle. Centred on the crimson circle is a leopard's head, the central device from the regimental cap badge.
When the 91st (Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot amalgamated with the 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot, to become Princess Louise's (Sutherland and Argyll Highlanders) in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, nine pre-existent militia and volunteer battalions of Argyllshire, Buteshire, Dumbartonshire, Kinross-shire, Renfrewshire, and ...
Princess Louise died at Kensington Palace on the morning of 3 December 1939 at the age of 91, [95] wearing the wedding veil she had worn almost 70 years earlier. [96] Following a simple funeral, owing to the war, her remains were cremated at Golders Green Crematorium on 8 December 1939. [ 97 ]
The drill hall was designed as the headquarters for the 4th (Kensington) Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps and completed in 1903. [1] This unit became the 13th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Kensington) in 1908. [1] The battalion was mobilised at the drill hall in August 1914 before being deployed to the Western Front. [2]
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The 31st (Greater London) Signal Regiment was a territorial communications regiment of the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals. The regiment first formed following the creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve in 1967 after the 1966 Defence White Paper .