The 21st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment was an infantry unit recruited as part of 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I. It was raised in the spring of 1915 by the Mayor and Borough of Islington in North L
Cap badge of the Middlesex Regiment
Alfred Leete's recruitment poster for Kitchener's Army.
The Church, Péronne, by Sir William Orpen.
The German breakthrough to the Lys, 9 April 1918.
The 20th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment was an infantry unit recruited as part of 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I. It was raised in the spring of 1915 by the Mayor and Borough of Shoreditch in the Ea
21st (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Islington)
…next day at Le Havre. The depot companies of the 21st (Islington) Battalion amalgamated with those of the 20th Middlesex at Shoreditch to form the 28th (Reserve) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Its role was to train reinforcement drafts for the two parent service battalions. By December 1915 it was at Northampton in 23rd Reserve Brigade…
Shoreditch Town Hall, first headquarters of the battalion