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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. ==Origins== An invasion scare in 1859 led to the creation of the Volunteer Movement in Britain. One of the movement's leaders was the journalist, playwright and poet Alfred Bate Richards, who convened a meeting at St Martin's Hall, Long Acre, London, on 16 April 1859 that led the War Office to authorise the recruitment of Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVCs). Richards himself enlisted 1000 men to form the 'Workmen's Volunteer Brigade'.〔Beckett, pp. 19, 61, Appendix VI, pp. 277–8.〕〔Planck, p. 2.〕 Although the unit began holding parades at the City of London's Guildhall in the autumn of 1860,〔''Morning Advertiser'', ''Times'', 24 Sep; ''Volunteer Services Gazette'', 29 Sep; ''Bengal Hurkaru'' 31 Oct 1860.〕 the first officers' commissions were not issued until 26 April 1861, when the unit was formally adopted as the 3rd City of London RVC. The men were generally less well-off than some other London RVCs recruited from the professions and middle classes, but the unit received some financial support from the City of London and the Livery Companies. It adopted a scarlet uniform with buff facings and brass buttons, at first with a bearskin and red plume, later with a kepi, together with the motto ''LABOR OMNIA VINCIT'' (Work conquers everything) derived from Virgil.〔Becket, Appendix VII.〕〔Planck, pp. 2–3.〕〔Westlake, p. 161.〕〔(7th City of London Regiment at Regiments.org )〕〔Barnes, Appendix III.〕〔Ehrlich.〕 Under the Childers Reforms the RVCs became Volunteer Battalions of Regular Army regiments in 1881. The 3rd London RVC was designated as the 11th Volunteer Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC) but continued to use its former title and did not adopt the Rifle green uniform and black buttons of the KRRC.〔〔〔Martin, pp. 1, 4–5.〕 The battalion did not have its own drill hall, and drill parades were held at Regent's Park, the Ditch of the Tower of London and at Gray's Inn Square. Prize-givings and inspections were held in the Guildhall, and the annual inspection was carried out at Horse Guards Parade. Church parades were held at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street. The headquarters was first at 26 Great Tower Street, then 38 New Broad Street, both in the City, and afterwards at 76 Farringdon Road in Clerkenwell, but in 1903 the battalion raised enough money to obtain larger premises at Sun Street, Finsbury Square.〔〔〔Planck, pp. 8–10.〕 During the Second Boer War the 3rd City of Londons provided a contingent of the City Imperial Volunteers raised at the Guildhall after the events of Black Week, and volunteers from the battalion also served with the KRRC. For this the unit received its first Battle Honour: South Africa 1900–02.〔Planck, pp. 8–9.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「7th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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