Queen's Westminsters

Queen's Westminsters
Cap Badge.
Active1860–1961
Country United Kingdom
Branch Army Reserve
TypeInfantry
RoleInfantry
Part ofLondon Regiment
Garrison/HQ58 Buckingham Gate (1886–1961)
Commanders
Honorary ColonelsHugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster (1881)
Field Marshal HM King Edward VII (1921)
Sir Edward Geoffrey Hippisley-Cox CBE TD DL (1939)
Major Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon and Viscount Eden of Royal Leamington Spa KG MC (1952)

The Queen's Westminsters were an infantry regiment of the Territorial Army, part of the British Army. Originally formed from Rifle Volunteer Corps, which were established after a French invasion scare of 1859. The unit became part of the newly established London Regiment on the formation of the Territorial Force in 1908. It was subsequently amalgamated in 1921 with the Civil Service Rifles, and became a territorial Battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1937. It ceased to exist as separate entity after it was amalgamated in 1961.