The Duke of Cumberland's Sharp Shooters

Victoria and St George’s Volunteers 1st Middlesex (Victoria and St George’s) Volunteer Rifle Corps 9th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
Active	1860–1961
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Territorial Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Battalion
Part of	London Regiment
Garrison/HQ	Davies Street drill hall (1890–1961)

The 9th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) was a Territorial Army infantry battalion of the British Army. The London Regiment was formed in 1908 in order to regiment the various Volunteer Force battalions in the newly formed County of London, and the Queen Victoria's Rifles were one of twenty six units brought together in this way.

The Queen Victoria’s Rifles could trace their origins back to the old volunteer regiments of the Napoleonic Wars when the Duke of Cumberland’s Sharpshooters were formed as a Corps of Riflemen on 5 September 1803.

The regiment was raised as the 1st (Victoria Rifle Club) Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps and became the 1st Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps on the formation of the Volunteer Force in 1860. One of the first officers of the Regiment was Captain Hans Busk - a key lobbiest in getting the Government to raise the Volunteer Force.

By 1892 the 1st Middlesex and 6th (St George's) Rifle Volunteer Corps were linked together with Headquarters at St John's Wood and Davies Street, Berkley Square respectively. Both were also linked as Volunteer Battalions of the King's Royal Rifle Corps.

In 1908 the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act came into effect and the new Territorial Force was created. At this time the regiment amalgamated with the 19th Middlesex (St Giles and St George’s, Bloomsbury) Volunteer Rifle Corps to form the 9th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles).

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