Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated 28.08.2004
 
 
Princess Louise's
Kensington Regiment
1860-present
 
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.
How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
  Titles and Lineage English County Index
Alphabetic Index of Titles
1798 The Corps of Kensington Volunteer Association
1802 disbanded
1803 Kensington Corps of Volunteer Infantry
1814 disbanded

1860.08.20 1st Administrative Battalion, Middlesex Rifle Volunteers
formed at Islington by regimentation of existing companies:
 
  • 4th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps at Islington, raised 15 Oct. 1859
  • 5th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps at Islington, raised 1859
  • 6th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps at Islington, raised 1859
  • 7th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps at Islington, raised 1859
  • 8th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps at Islington, raised 1859
1861.03.04 4th Middlesex (West London) Rifle Volunteer Corps
1881.07.01 [2nd] volunteer battalion of The King's Royal Rifle Corps
1885 HQ moved to Kensington
1886 eighth company raised
1891.12 4th Middlesex (West London) Volunteer Rifle Corps
1892 3rd Volunteer Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
(with 14th Middlesex RVC attached)
1905.09.01 4th Middlesex (Kensington) Volunteer Rifle Corps
1908.04.01 13th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Kensington)
transferred to T.F. with HQ and A-H Coys at Iverna Gardens, Kensington
1914.10 13th (County of London) Princess Louise's Kensington Battalion, The London Regiment
named for Princess Louise, who resided at Kensington Palace
1916.07.07 transferred to the corps of The Middlesex Regiment
1919.05 disembodied at Kensington
1920.02.07 13th (County of London) Princess Louise's Kensington Battalion, The London Regiment
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Iverna Gardens, Kensington
1922 13th London Regiment (Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment)
1937.08.10 Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
1939.03.31 1st Battalion, Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
redesignated on formation of duplicate 2nd Battalion
1946.09.29 placed in suspended animation in Austria
1947.01.01 GHQ Signals Reporting Regiment (Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment), Royal Signals
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Kensington, and concurrently amalgamated with duplicate 2nd Battalion (continuing role of war-time GHQ Liaison Regt)
1950 Army Phantom Regiment, Royal Signals (Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment)
1956 Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment, Royal Signals
1961 41st Signal Regiment, Royal Signals (Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment)
1967.04.01 41st (Princess Louise's Kensington) Signal Squadron, 31st (Greater London) Signal Regiment, Royal Signals (V)
regiment disbanded and concurrently reconstituted in TAVR II as a single sqn at Coulsdon
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Volunteers
History:
41st (Princess Louise's Kensington) Signal Squadron  (Reserve Forces and Cadets of London site)
History of the Kensington Regiment (Reserve Forces and Cadets of London site)
   
Deployment and War Service of Units:
 
Biography and Gallantry Awards:
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Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
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Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
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  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

South Africa 1900-02

The Great War (3 battalions):  Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Ypres 1917, Langemarck 1917, Cambrai 1917 '18, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Doiran 1917, Macedonia 1916-17, Gaza, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Jericho, Jordan, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1917-18

The Second World War:  St. Valery en Caux, Saar, Tilly sur Seulles, Odon, Antwerp-Turnhout Canal, Venlo Pocket, Zetten, Arnhem 1945, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Centuripe, Sicily 1943, Termoli, Sangro, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Monte Spaduro, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943-45

  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
Record of Colours:
  Uniforms and Badges
   
Badges:
Uniform:
   
   
     
   
   
  Honorary Colonels Index of Royal Colonels
1887.08.27 Gen. Frederick Augustus (Thesiger), 2nd Baron Chelmsford, GCB, GCVO
1906.11.29 Maj-Gen. Sir Alfred Edward Turner, KCB [also Col. Cmdt. RA]
1920.07.13 Gen. Sir Francis Lloyd, GCVO, KCB, DSO
1929.12.28 Col. H. Campbell, DSO, OBE, TD
  Traditions
 
Motto: Quid nobis ardui
Nicknames:
Anniversaries:
Freedoms: Royal Borough of Kensington (1959)
Marches: The Wild Hunt
Musicians:
Mascot:
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
  Bibliography How To Find Books
The Declaration, with the rules and regulations of the Kensington Corps of Volunteer Infantry. Kensington : Martin, 1803.
Bailey, O.F.; and Hollier, H.M. The Kensingtons : 13th London Regiment. [London] : Regimental Old Comrades Association, [1936]
The Kensingtons : Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment, Second World War. [London] : Regimental Old Comrades Association, [1952]
Army Phantom Signal Regiment (Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment) T.A. : a brief history, 1859-1959. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1959.