A HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX 



The volunteer movement of 1859-60 was taken up with the 

 greatest warmth in Middlesex, rifle corps being formed in almost every 

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When the line regiments of the British Army were territorialized 

 the old 57th became the ist Battalion, and the old 77th the 2nd Battalion 

 of the Duke of Cambridge's Own Middlesex Regiment. Both regiments 

 brought great traditions of the Peninsular, Crimean, and South African 

 (1879) wars.* 8 * The Royal Elthorne Militia and the Royal East Middle- 

 sex Militia now form respectively the 5th and 6th Battalions. The line 

 and militia, with the three volunteer battalions, served in the South 

 African War, 1900-2. 



*" Evans, op. cit. 48, 70, 86, I it, 141 ; The West Middlesex Herald, 1860-1. 

 4 " H. M. Chichester and G. Surges-Short, Records and Badges of the British Army. At the Battle 

 of Albuera (1811) the 5/th gained the name of the 'Die-Hards.' 



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