The London Scottish, the 14th (County of London) Battalion of the London Regiment (Territorial Force) could trace a continuous history back as far as 1859 and until the Haldane Reforms of 1908 was a unit of the disbanded rifle volunteer corps. It landed in France on 16 September 1914.
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