22nd (County of London) Battalion (The Queen’s) was a battalion of the
London Regiment (1908-1938) London Regiment may refer to two infantry regiments in the British Army:
* London Regiment (1908–1938)
The London Regiment was an infantry regiment in the British Army, part of the Territorial Force (renamed the Territorial Army in 1921). The ...
. Between 1908 and 1938 its drill hall was at 2 Jamaica Road in
Bermondsey, south London.
Its origins lay in the 10th and 23rd Surrey Rifle Volunteers, founded in 1859. Those two units merged to form the 6th Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps in 1880, which three years later was assigned to the
Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was a line infantry regiment of the English and later the British Army from 1661 to 1959. It was the senior English line infantry regiment of the British Army, behind only the Royal Scots in the British Arm ...
as the latter's 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion. When the Territorial Force was formed in 1908, the battalion was reassigned to the new London Regiment, with whom it remained until 1937, when it returned to the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), now as that regiment's 6th (Bermondsey) Battalion. Unveiled in 1921, its First World War memorial on Old Jamaica Road in
Bermondsey was Grade II listed in 2010.
References
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