59Foot raised in 1755 became the West Middlesex Regiment in 1782, the 77thFoot raised in 1787 became the East Middlesex in 1807, they were linked in 1881.

1881.07.01 The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
organised as the county regiment of Middlesex, encompassing its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] and uniting two regular battalions:
1st Battalion, redesignation of 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot
2nd Battalion, redesignation of 77th (East Middlesex, Duke of Cambridge's Own) Regiment of Foot

1889 parts of Middlesex County absorbed into new County of London
1908.04.01 3rd Vol Bn transferred to The London Regiment upon creation of T.F.
1916.07.07 7th Bn, 13th Bn and 19th Bn of The London Regiment affiliated
1921.01.01 The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
1965 remainder of Middlesex County absorbed into Greater London
1966.12.31 united with The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, The Queen's Own Buffs, and The Royal Sussex Regiment, to form The Queens' Regiment

In the Korean war 1950, the 1st Battalion Middlesex along with the Argylls were the first British troops to see action and won no less than seven battle honours. It is interesting to note that the regiment at that period had a very high proportion of National Servicemen among the ranks.

 

Battle Honours WW1

The Great War [46 battalions]: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914 '18, La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914 '17 '18, Armentières 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres 1915 '17 '18, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Hooge 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Bapaume 1917 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Rosières, Avre, Villers Bretonneux, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Courtrai, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Italy1917-18, Struma, Doiran 1918, Macedonia 1915-18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Rumani, Egypt 1915-17, Gaza, Jerusalem, Jericho, Jordan, Tell 'Asur, Palestine 1917-18, Mesopotamia 1917-18, Murman 1919, Dukhovskaya, Siberia 1918-19

Battle Honours WW2

The Second World War: Dyle, Defence of Escaut, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Cambes, Breville, Odon, Caen, Orne, Hill 112, Bourguébus Ridge, Troarn, Mont Pincon, Falaise, Seine 1944, Nederrijn, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venraij, Meijel, Geilenkirchen, Venlo Pocket, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine, Lingen, Brinkum, Bremen, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Mareth, Akarit, Djebel Roumana, North Africa 1942-43, Francofonte, Sferro, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Anzio, Carroceto, Gothic Line, Monte Grande, Italy 1944-45, Hong Kong, South-East Asia 1941

Naktong Bridgehead, Chongju, Chongchon II Chuam-Ni, Kapyong-chon, Kapyong, Korea 1950-51

 

National Army Museum

Deployment

1st Battalion

1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1881 Ireland: Limerick
1882 England: Dover
1888 Ireland: Buttevant
1890 Kilkenny
1892 Gibraltar
1895 England: Woolwich
1897 South Africa
1899 India: Madras
1901 Secunderabad
1904 Burma: Thayetmyo
1906 India: Lebong
1908 Allahabad
1910 Dinapore
1912 Aden
1913 England: Woolwich
1914.08 France and Flanders LofC, BEF
1914.10 France and Flanders 6 Div
1915.05 France and Flanders 27 Div
1915.08 France and Flanders 2 Div
1915.11 France and Flanders 33 Div
1919 England: Gravesend
1921.01.01 1st Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
1921.06 Cootehill
1922.01 Germany Army of Occupation
1923.10 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1927.04 Shanghai
1927.12 England: Catterick
1930 England: Colchester
1931.12 Palestine
1933.01 Egypt
1936.06 Singapore
1937.08 Hong Kong MG battalion
1939.09 Hong Kong
1941.12.08 Hong Kong Hong Kong Bde
1941.12.15
captured by the Japanese at Hong Kong
1942.05.28 re-formed in UK by redesignation of 2/8th Battalion
1942.05 UK 15 Inf Div
1944.06 NW Europe
1945 Germany
1947 converted back to infantry
1948.08.01 amalgamated with 2nd Battalion without change of title
1948 UK
1949 Hong Kong
1950.08.29 South Korea: Pusan
1950.08 Korea 27 Inf Bde
1951.05 Hong Kong
1952 UK
1953 Austria
1955.10 Cyprus [A Coy @ Aqaba 1958]
1958.10 Germany: Münster 6 Inf Bde
1962 UK
1963 Gibraltar
1965.10 Northern Ireland: Holywood
1966.03 [West Indies]
1966.10 Northern Ireland: Holywood
1966.12.31 4th Battalion, The Queen's Regiment (Middlesex)
redesignated upon formation of "large" regiment from Home Counties Brigade
1968.04 England: Warminster
1968.07.01 4th Battalion, The Queen's Regiment
1968 Warminster
1971.01.01 reduced to Albuhera Company
1972.11.01 disbanded

2nd Battalion

1787.10.12 77th (Hindoostan) Regiment of Foot
raised for service in India
1787.10 England
1788.03 at sea (embarked at Chatham)
1788 India: Bombay
1792 Mysore war
1792 India
1795 Ceylon
1796 India
Goa
India
1799 Mysore war
1799 India
1800 Guzerat
1800 Mysore
1801 Polygar campaign
1802 India
1807 England
1809 Walcheren
1810 Channel Islands: Jersey
1811 Portugal
1811 Peninsular war
1812 Portugal: Lisbon garrison duty
1813.10 at sea
1813.10 France: Passages
1813.10 Peninsular war
1814 France
1814.09.08 at sea (embarked at Passages) last battalion to leave France
1814 Ireland
1820 England
1823 Ireland
1824 Jamaica
1834 England
1834 Ireland
1837 Malta
1842 Ionian Islands: Corfu
1843 Jamaica
1846 Nova Scotia
1848 England
1854 Malta
1854 Crimea
1856.07 England
1856 Ireland
1857.06 at sea
1857 New South Wales
1858 India
1870 at sea first regiment through Suez Canal
1870 England
1876 Ireland
1876.06.19 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot (The Duke of Cambridge's Own)
1880 India
1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1881 Burma
1885 India: Secunderabad
1888 Kemptee
1891 Quetta
<1897> Ahmednagar
1898 England-
1899.12 South Africa 10 Bde
1903 Hounslow
1904 Portsmouth
1908 Guernsey
1910 Bordon
1912 Warley
1913 Malta
1914.11 France and Flanders 8 Div
1919 Egypt
1921.01.01 2nd Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke