Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated 31.03.2003
 
 
The Queen's Westminsters
 
United Kingdom 
  Titles & Lineage
  History & War Service
  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards and Guidons

  Badges and Uniforms
  Colonels
 Traditions
 Bibliography

Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency. See the main regimental page(s) as linked below for more information.
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  Titles and Lineage
1921.12.31 16th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen's Westminster and Civil Service Rifles)
formed with HQ at Buckingham Gate, Westminster, by amalgamation of 15th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own, Civil Service Rifles), and 16th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
1922 16th London Regiment  (Queen's Westminster and Civil Service Rifles)
1938 The Queen's Westminsters, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
1941 11th and 12th (Queen's Westminsters) Battalions, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
1947 11th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps (Queen's Westminsters)
1961 amalgamated with 7th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps (Queen Victoria's Rifles), to form Queen's Royal Rifles
  History (Links) & War Service
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  Battle Honours

[combined battle honours of 15th London Regiment, and 16th London Regiment, plus:]

The Second World War:  Mont Pincon, Roer, Rhineland, Cleve, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1944-45, El Alamein, North Africa 1942, Italy 1943-44, Athens, Greece 1944-45

  Colours, Standards and Guidons
 
  Uniforms and Badges
   
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  Honorary Colonels
  1921.12.31 F.M. HM King Edward VIII
1936 vacant
  Traditions
 
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  Bibliography