Chapter 19: Military and Armed Bodies

A militia ballot list for the whole City of Westminster in 1828, containing thirty thousand names, is held at the London Metropolitan Archives.

For records relating to the first and second world wars, including those of Local Tribunals, ARP, ATC and Civil Defence, see Section 10.1 and Section 10.2.

For information and illustrations of Westminster Voluntary Militias, see J King (ed) Loyal Volunteers of London and Environs, Infantry and Cavalry, in their respective uniforms, illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson (London, 1972)

2nd (Provisional) Battalion County of London Volunteer Regiment
Roll of officers, 1916-1917.

Duke of Gloucester's Light Battalion, Prince William Frederick's Volunteers, (St Clement Danes)
Drill returns of 2nd and 4th Companies, 1803-1811
List of names and attendance details of members of 4th Company, 1808

Duke of Gloucester's Loyal Volunteers, (St George Hanover Square)
Declaration and rules and regulations, [1803-1810]
Regimental book, including an alphabetical list of those serving, [1803-1810]

Paddington militia
List of persons liable to serve in case of invasion, 1803
Substitutes' certificates, 1781-1808
Orders for the relief of the families of militia men and substitutes, 1799-1815 PV266

Paddington Volunteer Corps (Paddington Association)
Committee minutes, 1803
List of volunteers and subscribers, 1803 PV266

Queen’s Westminster Volunteers (Westminster Rifles)
Programmes, press cuttings, photographs, 1898-1923 Acc 1987 (see also local studies books and pamphlets)

The Paddington Rifles
Material based on copies from elsewhere and compiled by J. P. Kelleher between 1982 and 1991, on the 36th Middlesex (Paddington) Rifles Volunteer Corps, formed in 1860 and known as the Paddington Rifles. In 1879 it became the 18th Middlesex RVC and from 1908 to 1912 it became part of the 10th Battalion, the County of London Regiment (Paddington Rifles). From 1912 it was incorporated into the 3rd (City of London) Battalion, the London regiment, the Royal Fusiliers.

St Anne, Soho militia
Pay books of monies paid to the wives and families of men serving in the militia and army of reserve, 1797-1813
Substitution certificates of men serving in Westminster Regiment of Middlesex Militia, 1795-1802

St Anne, Soho Volunteers
Voluntary subscription details, 1798
Voluntary Corps enrolment list, 1803
Voluntary Corps Committee minutes, 1803

St Clement Danes militia
Lists of people liable to serve, 1782-1810
List of persons balloted for the militia, 1803
List of principals and substitutes in supplementary militia, 1797-1798
List of substitutes' wives, with family details, 1797-1816

St Clement Danes Volunteers
Voluntary Corps lists of volunteers, 1803-1804
Voluntary Corps Committee minutes, 1803-1804
Voluntary Corps accounts, 1803-1806
Voluntary Corps correspondence, 1803-1808

St Clement Danes Army of Reserve
Army of Reserve papers, including lists of subscribers, 1803-1805

St George Hanover Square Association Against Rebellion
Subscription list, 1745

St James Loyal Volunteers
Declaration of Rules and Regulations, 1797
Minutes, 1815 Acc 767

St John's Wood Home Guard
Papers of Lieutenant Drukker including notebooks, firing registers, instructions pamphlets concerning training and operations, 1939-1944 Acc 1927

St Margaret militia
Militia pay books, giving details of payments for the support of militia men’s’ families, 1793-1802
Militia pay books giving details of payments for the support of substitutes’ families, 1793-1804

St Margaret Armed Association
Armed Association of St Margaret and St John (1798-1801), reformed as St Margaret’s Volunteers (1803-1810)
Armed Association committee minutes, 1798-1804
Armed Association list of members, 1798-1801
Armed Association subscription list, 1798-1801

St Margaret Army of Reserve
Army of Reserve papers, 1803-1808

St Martin-in-the-Fields militia
Warrant for Constables to take men for Queens' service, 1593
List of volunteers offering to serve in case of invasion, 1803

St. Marylebone Association (formed in response to the Gordon Riots)
Minutes of the Association, 1780 T:V:58
Minutes and subscription lists of Districts, No 1 Portman Square, No 2 Oxford Chapel, No 4 Berners Street, No 5 Portland Chapel, No 6 Marylebone Town, 1780 T:V:59-62

St Marylebone Volunteers, 1798-1801 and Royal York, St Marylebone Volunteers, 1802-1814
(for history, newspaper cuttings and illustrations, see G Daniell - St Marylebone Volunteers. History of Volunteers and Army of Reserve, [1848]: MBN Envelopes 911, 911.2: Ashbridge prints 911, 1765-1769)

St Mary le Strand militia
Minutes of meeting re quota, 1779
List of those liable to serve, 1779 Acc 1754
Militia accounts, correspondence, papers, 1779-1828 Acc 1754
Assessment of payments to wives of militia men, 1793-1794

St Mary le Strand Army of Defence
Committee minutes, 1803

St Paul Covent Garden regimental recruitment
Recruiting Commissioners' minutes, 1709-1711
Names of Recruiting Commissioners' 1709
memoranda of names of recruits and officers
Names of establishments and regiments appointed to recruit in London and numbers of men enlisted, 1709-1710

Liberty of the Rolls militia
Lists of people liable to serve, 1783-1810 (gaps)
Militia circulars, notices, orders and accounts, 1780-1813
Supplementary militia accounts, 1797-1801
Substitutes' receipts for bounties with names of principals, 1797
Certificates of enrolment and embodiment of militia men and substitutes, 1779-1813
Relief of militia men's families, 1779-1815
Relief of families of substitutes in the supplementary militia, 1799

Liberty of the Rolls Volunteers
List of subscribers to the Volunteer Corps, 1803
Men volunteering for West Middlesex Regiment of Militia, 1807

Liberty of the Rolls Defence Committee
Committee minutes, 1803

Precinct of the Savoy militia
Militia list, 1804-1805
Returns of people liable to serve, 1806

Westminster Dragoons (2nd County of London Yeomanry)
For history see local studies books and pamphlet 355.9421

Westminster Voluntary Cavalry
Lists of members, 1797 Acc 1820
Rules and regulations, 1798 Acc 1820