Kensington ( Territorials ) Embroidered Cloth Shoulder Title

Embroidered white on scarlet title. Paste back. Good condition. Scarce.

The 13th London Regiment was the convenient short title after the formation of the Territorials in 1908. And from October 1914, the title was "13th Princess Louise's Kensington Battalion, the London Regiment" But, dating back to 1905 and throughout the two World Wars, the regiment was best known as "the Kensingtons ".

However, the title "Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment", survived three Regular Army parent regiments - the Kings Royal Rifle Corps from 1908, the Middlesex Regiment from 1937, the Royal Corps of Signals from 1947 and umpteen TA reorganisations until 1967, when the regiment lost its separate identity and was amalgamated with the Middlesex Yeomanry to form the 31st (Greater London) Signal Regiment(V). That regiment's "41st Princess Louise's Kensington Squadron" still wear Princess Louise's collar badges and buttons and they are the custodians of the Colours and the Drums of Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment.

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