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The 7th (City of London) Battalion of the London Regiment was a volunteer unit of the British Army from 1860 until 1961. Recruited from London working men, it sent volunteers to the Second Boer War, saw extensive service on the Western Front during World War I, and defended the United Kingdom as a searchlight regiment during World War II.
The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in continuous existence for 283 years. It was known as the 7th Regiment of Foot until the Childers Reforms of 1881. [1]
The Shiny Seventh – 7th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment – being the only red-coated and brass-buttoned battalion in a brigade otherwise uniformed in rifle green with black buttons [86] The Shiny Tenth – 10th Royal Hussars [87] The Shiny Twelfth – 12th (Service) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment (Bermondsey) [88]
Further reorganisations took place after World War I. Many saw these changes as a dilution of the battalion's Post Office identity. Included in these reorganisations was the amalgamation of the 8th Battalion with the non-Post Office 7th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment in 1921, forming the 7th London Regiment (Post Office Rifles).
When the 7th Battalion London Light Infantry was redesignated in 1880 as the 7th Battalion Fusiliers, as with many of the units of the Canadian Militia, the regiment chose to model itself like that of its counterpart in the British Army, in this case that of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), itself formerly the 7th Regiment of Foot ...
The City of London Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (1961–1967) 5th (Bury) Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers (1958–1967) 7th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers (1962–1967)
4th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment; 5th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) 6th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment; 7th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment; 8th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles) 9th Battalion, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles ...
1st London VRC (City of London Volunteer Rifle Brigade) 5th (City of London) Bn, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) 2nd London VRC: 6th (City of London) Bn, London Regiment, (City of London Rifles) 3rd London VRC: 7th (City of London) Bn, London Regiment: 24th Middlesex VRC: 8th (City of London) Bn, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)