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{{short description|Infantry regiment of the British Army}}
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{{Infobox military unit
| unit_name = Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)<br>Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
| image = Middlesex Regiment Cap Badge.jpg
| caption = Cap Badge of the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
| dates = 1881–1966
| country = {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| branch = [[Image:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Army]]
| type = [[Infantry]]
| role = [[Line infantry]]
| size = 1–4 [[Regular army|Regular]] battalions<br>1–2 [[Militia (United Kingdom)|Militia]] and [[Militia (United Kingdom)#The Special Reserve|Special Reserve]]<br>1–7 [[Army Reserve (United Kingdom)|Territorial]] and [[Volunteer Force (Great Britain)|Volunteer]] battalions
| garrison = [[Cavalry Barracks, Hounslow|Hounslow Barracks]] (1881–1905)<br>[[Inglis Barracks]], [[Mill Hill]] (1905–1966)
| ceremonial_chief =
| ceremonial_chief_label=
| colonel_of_the_regiment=
| nickname = ''The Die Hards''
| motto =
| colors = Lemon Yellow Facings
| march =
| mascot =
| battles =
| notable_commanders =
| anniversaries = Albuhera Day (16 May).
}}
The '''Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)''' was a [[line infantry]] [[regiment]] of the [[British Army]] in existence from 1881 until 1966. The regiment was formed, as the '''Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)''', in 1881 as part of the [[Childers Reforms]] when the [[57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot|57th (West Middlesex)]] and [[77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot|77th (East Middlesex) Regiments of Foot]] were amalgamated with the county's [[Militia (United Kingdom)|militia]] and [[Volunteer Force (Great Britain)|rifle volunteer]] units.
On 31 December 1966 the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) was amalgamated with the other regiments of the [[Home Counties Brigade]], the [[Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment]], the [[Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment]] and the [[Royal Sussex Regiment]] to form the [[Queen's Regiment]]. The latter merged on 9 September 1992 with the [[Royal Hampshire Regiment]] to form the [[Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment|Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)]].
The Middlesex Regiment was one of the principal [[home counties]] based regiments with a long tradition. They inherited their nickname, the "Die-hards", from the 57th Regiment of Foot (West Middlesex), which later became the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. The 57th gained the name during the [[Peninsular War]] when, at the [[Battle of Albuera]] on 16 May 1811 their commander [[William Inglis (British Army officer)|Colonel Inglis]] had his horse shot from under him. Severely wounded and outnumbered by the French he called to his men "Die hard, 57th. Die hard!" "Albuhera" was the principal battle honour on the Middlesex Regiment's colours.
==History==
[[File:Middlesex Regiment Memorial, St. Mary's Church, Madras.jpg|thumb|Middlesex Regiment Memorial, [[St. Mary's Church, Chennai|St. Mary's Church, Madras]]]]
===Formation===
The regiment was formed on 1 July 1881 with two regular, two militia and four volunteer battalions:<ref name = regiments>{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/057Midx.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051225092024/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/057Midx.htm|title=The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) [UK]|archive-date=25 December 2005|access-date=24 January 2016}}</ref>
* 1st Battalion ''formerly the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot (raised 1755)''
* 2nd Battalion ''formerly the 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) (raised 1787)''
* 3rd Battalion ''formerly the [[Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Militia]]''
* 4th Battalion ''formerly the [[Royal East Middlesex Militia]]''
* 1st Volunteer Battalion ''formerly The 3rd Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps''
* 2nd Volunteer Battalion ''formerly The 8th Middlesex (South West Middlesex) Volunteer Rifle Corps''
* 3rd Volunteer Battalion ''formerly The [[3rd (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment|11th (Railway) Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps]] – transferred to [[Royal Fusiliers]] 1890''
* 4th Volunteer Battalion (3rd VB from 1890) ''formerly the [[19th London Regiment (St Pancras)|17th Middlesex (North Middlesex) Volunteer Rifle Corps]]''
In 1900 the number of regular battalions was doubled with the formation of new 3rd and 4th battalions, and the militia battalions were renumbered as the 5th and 6th battalions.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The War – Infantry and Militia battalions|date=19 February 1900 |page=12 |issue=36069}}</ref> In 1908, with the formation of the [[Special Reserve]] from the Militia and the [[Territorial Army (United Kingdom)|Territorial Force]] (TF) from the Volunteers, the 1st and 2nd Volunteer Battalions became the 7th and 8th (TF) Battalions, while the 3rd (formerly 4th) Volunteer Battalion transferred to the [[London Regiment (1908–1938)|London Regiment]], becoming the [[19th London Regiment (St Pancras)|19th Battalion (St Pancras)]]. The 4th Volunteer Battalion, [[King's Royal Rifle Corps]] (formerly the [[9th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment|5th (West Middlesex) Volunteer Rifle Corps]]), joined the Middlesex Regiment as the 9th Battalion. The [[10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment|10th Battalion]] was formed by a nucleus of 300 officers and men from the disbanded 2nd (South Middlesex) Volunteer Rifle Corps.<ref name = regiments/><ref name = 9Middx>{{cite web|url=http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/volmil-england/vinf-so/mx-09.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051227043643/http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/volmil-england/vinf-so/mx-09.htm|title=9th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment [UK]|archive-date=27 December 2005|access-date=24 January 2016}}</ref><ref name = 10Middx>{{cite web|url=http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/volmil-england/vinf-so/mx-10.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051227043705/http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/volmil-england/vinf-so/mx-10.htm|title=10th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment [UK]|archive-date=27 December 2005|access-date=24 January 2016}}</ref><ref>Ray Westlake, ''Tracing the Rifle Volunteers'', Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2010, {{ISBN|978-1-84884-211-3}}.</ref> The regiment now had two Special Reserve and four Territorial battalions.<ref>These were the 5th (Reserve) Battalion and the 6th (Extra Reserve) Battalion at Mill Hill, with the 7th Battalion at [[Priory Road drill hall, Hornsey|Priory Road]] in [[Hornsey]], the 8th Battalion at [[Hanworth Road drill hall, Hounslow|Hanworth Road]] in [[Hounslow]], the 9th Battalion at Pound Lane in [[Willesden|Willesden Green]] (since demolished) and the 10th Battalion at Stamford Brook Lodge at [[Ravenscourt Park]] (since demolished) (all Territorial Force)</ref><ref name=regiments/> The four TF battalions constituted the [[132nd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|Middlesex Brigade]] in the [[44th (Home Counties) Division|Home Counties Division]].<ref>Maj A.F. Becke,''History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2a: The Territorial Force Mounted Divisions and the 1st-Line Territorial Force Divisions (42–56)'', London: HM Stationery Office, 1935/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, {{ISBN|1-847347-39-8}}.</ref>
===Duke of Cambridge's Own===
On formation in 1881 the regimental title was '''The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment).'''<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24992|pages=3300–3301|date=1 July 1881}}</ref> The regiment inherited the designation ''"Duke of Cambridge's Own"'' from the 77th Foot, to which regiment it had been awarded in 1876. The regiment was also permitted to bear the coronet and cypher of [[Prince George, Duke of Cambridge]] on its colours and badges.<ref>Ian Sumner, ''British Colours and Standards 1747 – 1881 (2) – Infantry'', Oxford, 2001</ref> The regiment had earlier been granted the plumes and motto of the [[Prince of Wales]] in 1810 for twenty years service in India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pwrr-army.co.uk/pwrr_history.htm |title=Team Tiger |publisher=Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment |access-date=24 January 2016 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005195223/http://www.pwrr-army.co.uk/pwrr_history.htm |archive-date=5 October 2008 }}</ref>
In 1921, in common with many other regiments, the regimental title was effectively reversed to '''The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)'''.<ref>Army Order 509/1920, in effect 1 January 1921</ref> The Duke was colonel-in-chief of the regiment from 1898 to his death in 1904.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/biography/royals/1819geoC.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060212221043/http://www.regiments.org/biography/royals/1819geoC.htm|title=H.R.H. Prince George Duke of Cambridge 1819–1904 [UK]|archive-date=12 February 2006|access-date=24 January 2016}}</ref> Its regimental marches were 'Sir [[Manley Power]]' and 'Paddy's Resource' (quick), and 'Caledonian' and 'Garb of old Gaul' (slow).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CNcNAAAAQAAJ&q=badajoz+manley+power&pg=PA103|title=The Handbook of British Regiments|publisher=Routledge|first=Christopher|last= Chant|year= 1988|isbn=9780415002417|access-date=24 January 2016}}</ref>
The regiment relocated from [[Cavalry Barracks, Hounslow|Hounslow Barracks]] to the newly built [[Inglis Barracks]] in 1905.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5mc7AwAAQBAJ&q=middlesex+regiment+1905+hounslow+barracks+inglis+barracks&pg=PT139|title=Defending London: A Military History from Conquest to Cold War|first=Mike |last=Osborne|publisher=The History Press|year=2011|isbn=978-0752479316}}</ref>
===Early service===
The 1st and 2nd battalions both saw turns in [[India]] during the late 19th century. Following the outbreak of the [[Second Boer War]] in 1899, the 2nd battalion embarked for active service in [[South Africa]] in December 1899 and took part in the storming of Alleman's Nek in June 1900.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.angloboerwar.com/unit-information/imperial-units/573-middlesex-regiment|title=Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)|publisher=Anglo-Boer War|access-date=30 April 2018}}</ref>
The 5th and 6th ([[Militia (United Kingdom)|Militia]]) battalions were also embodied for active service during the Second Boer War. 760 men of the 5th battalion (formerly the Royal Elthorne Light Infantry) was reported to return home on the SS ''Assaye'' in September 1902, after the war had ended.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Army in South Africa – Troops returning Home|date=5 September 1902 |page=6 |issue=36865}}</ref> The 6th battalion (formerly the Royal East Middlesex Militia) was embodied in December 1899 (when it was still the 4th Battalion), and 530 officers and men left for service in South Africa in February 1900.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The War – Embarcation of Troops|date=20 February 1900 |page=8 |issue=36070}}</ref>
===First World War===
====Regular army====
The 1st Battalion landed at [[Le Havre]], as [[line of communication]] troops, in August 1914 for service on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]].<ref name=trail>{{cite web|url=http://www.1914-1918.net/msex.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010628195903/http://www.1914-1918.net/msex.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 June 2001 |title=The Middlesex Regiment |publisher=The Long, Long Trail |access-date=24 January 2016 }}</ref>
[[File:The German Spring Offensive, March-july 1918 Q9061.jpg|thumb|left|Lieutenant-Colonel John Hamilton Hall (standing directly in front of the Red Cross on the ambulance), the CO of the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (98th Brigade, 33rd Division), with his officers. Photograph taken during the battalion's rest near Cassel, 25 April 1918.]]
The 2nd Battalion landed at Le Havre as part of the [[23rd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|23rd Brigade]] in the [[8th Division (United Kingdom) in the First World War|8th Division]] in November 1914 also for service on the Western Front.<ref name=trail/>
The 3rd Battalion landed at Le Havre aspart of the [[85th Brigade (United Kingdom)|85th Brigade]] in the [[28th Division (United Kingdom)|28th Division]] in January 1915 for service on the Western Front before moving to Egypt in October 1915 and to [[Thessaloniki|Salonika]] in December 1915.<ref name=trail/>
The 4th Battalion land at [[Boulogne-sur-Mer]] as part of the [[8th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|8th Brigade]] in [[3rd Division (United Kingdom)|3rd Division]] in August 1914 for service on the Western Front.<ref name=trail/> Some 400 men of the 4th Battalion were killed at the [[Battle of Mons]] later that month.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/battles/battles-of-the-western-front-in-france-and-flanders/the-battle-of-mons/|title=The Battle of Mons|publisher=The Long, Long Trail|access-date=24 January 2016}}</ref>
====Territorial force====
At the start of the First World War the four territorial battalions were sent off to their war stations: the 1/7th and 1/8th, who went to France to serve on the Western Front, and the [[9th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment|1/9th]] and 1/10th, who went to [[British Raj|India]] to relieve regular troops.<ref name=trail/> Late in 1917 the 1/9th Bn was assigned to the [[18th Indian Division]] and served in the [[Mesopotamian Campaign]] in 1918.<ref name=trail/> However, there was a surplus of volunteers who had sought to enlist; these men had joined the Territorial Battalions, and although the [[War Office]] wanted them to transfer to the Regular Army or the New ([[Kitchener's Army]]), the majority elected to remain with the Territorial Battalions which had enlisted them. [[Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|General Kitchener]] was not in favour of the Territorials although he and other critics were silenced after the Territorials fought so well with the [[British Expeditionary Force (World War I)|BEF]] after [[Battle of Mons|Mons]]. It became obvious that the First Line battalions that had gone overseas would need reinforcements almost at once and the War Office gave permission to raise Second Line Territorial Battalions and in this way the 2/7th and 2/8th were formed for service with the [[Western Frontier Force]] and the 2/10th was formed for service in the [[Gallipoli Campaign]].<ref name=trail/> A Third Line battalion, the 3/10th, also landed at Le Havre for service on the Western Front.<ref name=trail/>
====New armies====
Additional war-formed "service" battalions were the 11th to 34th and 51st to 53rd.<ref>Everard Wyrall, ''The Die-Hards in the Great War'', 2 Vols, London: Harrisons, 1926 & 1930/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2002, {{ISBN|978-1-84342-373-7}}</ref> Two of these Battalions (17th and 23rd) were recruited from footballers and were known as the [[Football Battalion]]s.<ref name=trail/> In October 1966 the regiment paid a then record sum of £900 for the [[Victoria Cross]] awarded to Private [[Robert Edward Ryder]], of the 12th (Service) Battalion, for bravery during the [[Battle of the Somme]].<ref>''£1700 World Record...'';[[The Times]]; 22 January 1969; p. 12 col F</ref>
====Labour units ====
{{main|Middlesex Regiment alien labour units}}
The 1916 introduction of conscription saw the 30th and 31st (Works) battalions raised to accommodate British citizens who were the sons of enemy aliens. These were non-combatant units that provided labour to support the British war effort. From 1917 to 1918 eight independent companies of the Middlesex Regiment were additionally raised to provide labourers for service in France.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Messenger |first1=Charles |title=Call to Arms: The British Army 1914-18 |date=30 April 2015 |publisher=Orion |isbn=978-1-78022-759-7 |page=73 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=euyVBgAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Starling |first1=John |last2=Lee |first2=Ivor |title=No Labour, No Battle: Military Labour during the First World War |date=1 September 2014 |publisher=The History Press |isbn=978-0-7509-5879-0 |pages=113–114 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GqWCBAAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref>
===Inter-war period===
In the early 1920s the 3rd and 4th battalions were disbanded, leaving two regular battalions. The 7th and 8th territorial battalions continued in existence, while the 9th was converted to a searchlight unit, transferring to the [[Royal Artillery]] in 1940 as [[9th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment|60th (Middlesex) Searchlight Regiment]],<ref name = 9Middx/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.britishmilitaryhistory.co.uk/webeasycms/hold/uploads/bmh_document_pdf/2-Anti-Aircraft-Division-1939-.pdf |title=2 AA Division 1939 |publisher=British Military History |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923194855/http://www.britishmilitaryhistory.co.uk/webeasycms/hold/uploads/bmh_document_pdf/2-Anti-Aircraft-Division-1939-.pdf |archive-date=23 September 2015 |url-status=dead |access-date=24 January 2016}}</ref><ref>Norman E.H. Litchfield, ''The Territorial Artillery 1908–1988 (Their Lineage, Uniforms and Badges)'', Nottingham: Sherwood Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-9508205-2-0}}.</ref> and the 10th became a unit of the [[Royal Signals]] as [[44th (Home Counties) Divisional Signals]].<ref name = 10Middx/><ref>Cliff Lord & Graham Watson, ''Royal Corps of Signals: Unit Histories of the Corps (1920–2001) and its Antecedents'', Solihull: Helion, 2003, {{ISBN|1-874622-92-2}}.</ref> In 1916, the [[Post Office Rifles]], the [[Kensington Regiment (Princess Louise's)|Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment]] and [[19th Battalion, London Regiment (St Pancras)]] had been attached to the Middlesex Regiment from the territorial [[London Regiment (1908–1938)|London Regiment]], but retained their original titles and distinctions. In 1935 the Post Office Rifles and 19th Londons became searchlight regiments, and in 1937 The Kensingtons formally became a territorial battalion of the Middlesex Regiment.<ref name = regiments/><ref name="kensingtonbattalion1">{{Cite web |url=http://www.kensingtonbattalion3624.org.uk/regimental_history.htm |title="The Kensingtons", Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment |publisher=Kensington Battalion |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170101071904/http://kensingtonbattalion3624.org.uk/regimental_history.htm |archive-date=1 January 2017 |url-status=dead |access-date=24 January 2016}}</ref>
===Second World War===
[[Image:Coat of Arms of the Middlesex Regiment.JPG|left|thumb|Badge of the Middlesex Regiment as shown on a Second World War grave at Stanley Military Cemetery, Hong Kong.]]
In 1938 the two territorial battalions formed duplicates, thus forming the 1/7th, 2/7th, 1/8th and 2/8th battalions. Before the [[World War II|Second World War]] the Middlesex Regiment was chosen as one of four other infantry regiments to be converted to a machine gun regiment. The 1/7th Battalion served with the [[51st (Highland) Division|51st (Highland) Infantry Division]].<ref>Joslen, p. 83</ref>
[[File:The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H11868.jpg|thumb|right|Vickers machine-gun team of 2/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, man their weapon on a clifftop in Northern Ireland, 15 July 1941.]]
In 1943, the 1/8th officially became the 8th Battalion as part of the MG Battalion attached to the [[43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division]] during the [[Operation Overlord|Normandy Campaign]] during which they fought in the [[Battle for Caen]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/30055/ww2_caen.pdf|title=The Drive on Caen|page=18|publisher=Ministry of Defence|access-date=23 January 2016}}</ref> The 1st Battalion was part of an allied force which held out against overwhelming odds for 17 days during the [[Battle of Hong Kong]] before surrendering to the [[Imperial Japanese Army]] in December 1941.<ref>Beckett, p. 83</ref>
===Post-war to amalgamation===
The regiment was reduced to a single regular battalion (the 1st) in 1948, and two territorial battalions (the 7th and 8th). The Kensington Regiment amalgamated with the [[Middlesex Yeomanry]] to form the [[31 (City of London) Signal Regiment|31st (Greater London) Signal Regiment (V)]].<ref name="kensingtonbattalion1" />
In 1948, the 1st battalion became part of the [[Home Counties Brigade]], along with the regular battalions of other regiments in southeast England.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aU1-AwAAQBAJ&q=1948+mercian+brigade&pg=PA156|title=A History of British Infantry: For Love of Regiment, Volume 2, 1915–1994|first=Charles |last=Messenger|date=16 March 1994|page=156|publisher=Pen and Sword |isbn=9780850524222}}</ref>
From August 1950 to April 1951, the 1st battalion saw action in the [[Korean War]] as part of [[27th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|27th British Commonwealth Brigade]], being one of the first British units to be deployed there.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historynet.com/korean-war-british-27th-brigade-take-hill-282.htm|title=Korean War: British 27th Brigade Take Hill 282|date=21 August 2006|publisher=History Today|access-date=23 January 2016}}</ref>
In 1961 the Territorial Army was reduced in size and a new 5th Battalion was formed by the amalgamation of the 7th and 8th with the [[9th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment|571st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery]] (the successor to the 9th Battalion).<ref name = 9Middx/>
In 1966 the four battalions of the Home Counties Brigade were amalgamated to form a "[[large regiment]]", the [[Queen's Regiment]]. Accordingly, the 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment was redesignated as 4th Battalion the Queen's Regiment (Middlesex), with the other regular battalions being formed by the [[Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment]], [[Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment|Queen's Own Buffs]] and [[Royal Sussex Regiment]]. In 1968 the 'Middlesex' suffix was dropped,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/1661to1966/queensreg/queensreg.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831071939/http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/1661to1966/queensreg/queensreg.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=31 August 2018|title=The Queen's Regiment 1966 – 1992 (Archived)|publisher=Queen's Royal Surreys|access-date=6 February 2020}}</ref> and in June 1970 the 4th Battalion was disbanded, with its members distributed among the regiment's three remaining regular battalions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://british-army-units1945on.co.uk/infantry/queen-s-regiment.html|title=British Army units from 1945. Infantry: The Queen's Regiment|access-date=6 February 2020}}</ref>
==Regimental museum==
The Middlesex Regiment Museum, formerly in [[Bruce Castle]], closed in 1992 and was absorbed into the [[National Army Museum]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Tottenham: Manors |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol5/pp324-330 |work=A History of the County of Middlesex |volume=5 |pages=324–330 |year=1976 |publisher=Victoria County History |access-date=23 March 2009}}</ref>
==Battle honours==
The battle honours of the regiment were as follows:<ref name = regiments/>
* ''Earlier wars''
** Mysore, South Africa 1879, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1900–02
* ''The Great War''
** Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914 '18, La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914 '17 '18, Armentières 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres 1915 '17 '18, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Hooge 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Bapaume 1917 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Rosières, Avre, Villers Bretonneux, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Courtrai, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–18, Italy1917-18, Struma, Doiran 1918, Macedonia 1915–18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Rumani, Egypt 1915–17, Gaza, Jerusalem, Jericho, Jordan, Tell 'Asur, Palestine 1917–18, Mesopotamia 1917–18, Murman 1919, Dukhovskaya, Siberia 1918–19
* ''The Second World War'':
** Dyle, Defence of Escaut, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Cambes, Breville, Odon, Caen, Orne, Hill 112, Bourguébus Ridge, Troarn, Mont Pincon, Falaise, Seine 1944, Nederrijn, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venraij, Meijel, Geilenkirchen, Venlo Pocket, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine, Lingen, Brinkum, Bremen, North-West Europe 1940 '44–45, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Mareth, Akarit, Djebel Roumana, North Africa 1942–43, Francofonte, Sferro, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Anzio, Carroceto, Gothic Line, Monte Grande, Italy 1944–45, Hong Kong, South-East Asia 1941
* ''Later wars''
** Naktong Bridgehead, Chongju, Chongchon II Chuam-Ni, Kapyong-chon, Kapyong, Korea 1950–51, 7th, 8th, 9th Battal
==Colonels-in-chief==
* 1898–1904: F.M. HRH [[George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge]], KG, KT, KP, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, GBE, VD, TD (Commander in Chief)
* 1921–: F.M. HM [[King Edward VIII]]
==Regimental colonels==
Colonels of the regiment were:<ref name= regiments/>
; The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
* 1881 (1st Battalion): Gen. Sir [[Edward Alan Holdich]], GCB ''(ex [[57th Foot]])''
* 1881 (2nd Battalion): Gen. [[Henry Hope Graham]], CB ''(ex [[77th Foot]])''
* 1897–1900: Gen. Sir [[George Willis (British Army officer)|George Harry Smith Willis]], GCB
* 1900–1921: Lt-Gen. Henry Kent
; The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) (1921)
* 1921–1932: Gen. Sir [[Ivor Maxse]], KCB, CVO, DSO
* 1932–1942: Brig-Gen. Ronald Macclesfield Heath, CMG, DSO
* 1942–1952: Col. Maurice Browne, MC
* 1952–1959: Lt-Gen. [[Gerard Bucknall|Gerard Corfield Bucknall]], CB, MC
* 1959–1965: Maj-Gen. Sir John Edward Francis Willoughby, KBE, CB
* 1965–1966: Maj-Gen. [[Christopher Man|Christopher Mark Morrice Man]], CB, OBE, MC
* ''1966: Regiment amalgamated with [[The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment]], [[Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment]] and [[The Royal Sussex Regiment]] to form [[The Queen's Regiment]]''
==Freedoms==
The regiment was awarded the Freedom of [[Municipal Borough of Hendon|Hendon]] on 22 October 1955.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.steppingforwardlondon.org/civic-honours-granted-by-the-london-boroughs.html|title=Civic Honours granted by the London Boroughs|publisher=Stepping Forward London|access-date=16 January 2019}}</ref>
==Uniforms==
The regimental [[facings]] were yellow lapels and cuffs on the standard infantry [[red coat (military uniform)|red coats]] of the period, from the establishment of the 59th Regiment of Foot in 1755 and its renumbering as the 57th two years later. When linked with the 77th Regiment in 1881, white facings were adopted by the two battalions now making up the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middleex Regiment. Coincidentally the 77th had also worn yellow facings until the merger. In 1902 the entire regiment adopted lemon-yellow of a distinctive shade associated with the 77th until 1820.<ref>W.Y. Carman, page 93, "Richard Simkin's Uniforms of the British Army", {{ISBN|0-86350-031-5}}</ref> The remaining features of the Middlesex Regiment's uniform followed the normal British infantry changes from red coats, to scarlet tunics, to khaki [[service dress]] and [[battle dress]]. Braid, badges, and buttons were gold or bronze.<ref>W.Y. Carman, page 80, "Richard Simkin's Uniforms of the British Army", {{ISBN|0-86350-031-5}}</ref>
==Alliances==
*{{NZL}} – [[Taranaki Regiment|The Taranaki Regiment]] (1913-1948)<ref name= regiments/>
*{{NZL}} – [[Wellington West Coast and Taranaki Regiment|The Wellington West Coast and Taranaki Regiment]] (1948-1966)<ref>{{cite web|title=Alliance between Middlesex Regiment and Taranaki Regiment, New Zealand|year=1950|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1649392039/view}}</ref>
==See also==
{{Commons category|Middlesex Regiment}}
==References==
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==Sources==
*{{cite book|last=Beckett|first=Ian|title=Discovering English County Regiments|publisher=Shire|year=2003|isbn=978-0747805069}}
*{{cite book|last= Joslen|first=Lt-Col H.F. |year=2003|title=Orders of Battle: Second World War, 1939–1945|publisher=Uckfield: Naval and Military Press|isbn= 978-1-84342-474-1}}
==External links==
*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/research/famous-units/middlesex-regiment-duke-cambridges-own Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)] – [[National Army Museum]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051228103659/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/index.htm Land Forces of Britain, The Empire and Commonwealth] – Regiments.org
*[http://www.britishmilitaryhistory.co.uk British Military History]
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