Chapter 19: Military and Armed Bodies

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

There are separate sections on the Civil Defence in the deparmental records of Westminster City Council and the boroughs of St Marylebone and Paddington.

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

36th Middlesex Paddington Rifle Volunteers and 18th Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Company

Medals and badges, 1876-1890, Acc 2057

98th (St Marylebone) Air Training Corps

Scrapbook, 1941-1943, Acc 2056

Civil Service (12th Middlesex) Rifle Volunteers

Photograph of officers and men, c1883, Acc 2011

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]

Gladys Gage, Paddington ARP Warden

Black and white photographs of Gladys Gage, Paddington ARP Warden in uniform and members of Paddington ARP Post O, 1939-1945, Acc 2405

Leonard H M Lane

Papers relating to St Marylebone Civil Defence Division A/I, 1938-1945, Acc 2363

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

London Auxiliary Ambulance Station 39, Weymouth Mews

Photographs, newspaper cuttings and letters, including papers of Station Officer May Greenup, 1940-2001, Acc 2284

London and Westminster Light Horse Volunteers

Correspondence between James Graham, Duke of Montrose and Colonel Charles Herries of the London and Westminster Light Horse Volunteers, 1797-1805, Acc 2155

Precinct of the Savoy militia

Militia list, 1804-1805

Returns of people liable to serve, 1806

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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

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

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)

Hugh V Roberts, Air Raid Warden

Papers relating to Civil Defence and the history of Wardens' Post 14, 9 Upper Belgrave Street, 1941-1946, Acc 2098

Royal Air Force Association Westminster Branch

Minute book, 1945-1972, Acc 2050

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 John's Wood Wardens Post A5

Black and white group photographs of Air Raid Wardens and other Volunteers at Post A5, St John's Wood, St Marylebone, including Post Warden Adolphe Salem and Chief Warden A E Reneson Coucher, 1943, Acc 2430

St Margaret militia

Militia pay books, giving details of payments for the support of militia mens' 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

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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

John H Warren-Farrow, Air Raid Warden

Papers relating to civil defence and the history of Warden's Post 23, 33 Warwick Square, 1938-1953, Acc 2064

Arthur Edward Weeks

Papers relating to service with the Queen's Westminster Rifles including officer training battalion, Jun 1916-1917, later 29th City of London, Royal Fusiliers, Garrison Company based at Clacton on Sea, 1917-1918 and as part of the North Russian Expeditionary Force Jun 1918-Apr 1919

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

World War One bomb damage photographs

Black and white copy photographs of Edward Street Soho; Gray's Inn; Odham's Press, Long Acre; Royal Academy, Burlington House, Piccadilly; Savoy Mansions; Strand Theatre; Sphinx, Victoria Embankment; Wellington Street, 1915-1918, Acc 2241

World War Two bomb damage photographs

Black and white photograph of damage to the interior of St George's Hall, Langham Place caused by a German incendiary bomb on 24 Sep 1940, Acc 2368

Black and white press agency photographs of bomb damage in the City of Westminster during World War Two, including the Houses of Parliament, Oxford Street, Queen's Hall, St Clement Danes Church and Westminster Abbey, 1939-1945, Acc 2398

Album of copy photographs titled "Photographic Record of The Blitz On London", by A C Ricketts, Staff Photographer of the Westminster Press Provincial Newspapers Limited, 1940-1945, Acc 2546

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