Cap Badge - Royal Fusiliers (1st City of London Regiment). The Royal Fusiliers raised no fewer than 47 battalions for service in the Great War. This makes it the fifth largest after the London Regiment, Northumberland Fusiliers, Middlesex Regiment and King's (Liverpool Regiment). The 1st London Regiment had its Drill Hall in Handel Street, Bloomsbury. In August 1914 it was part of the 1st London Division, and like the other Royal Fusilier battalions of the London Regiment it was posted to the Malta Garrison in September 1914, and was now the 1/1st Battalion. The 2/1st and 3/1st Battalions had meanwhile been formed in England. It returned to England, and then crossed to France in March 1915, joining 25th Brigade, 8th Division. This was a regular army division and was then in the line south of Armentières. The battalion took part in the Battle of Aubers Ridge on 9th May 1915, losing 3 officers and 120 men. It joined 167th Brigade of the newly formed 56th (1st London) Division near Loos in February 1916. The Royal Fusiliers served with distinction in the First World War,[5] raising 76 battalions who wore the regimental cap badge. They served on the Western Front, in Africa, the Middle East and Macedonia. Members of the Royal Fusiliers won the first two Victoria Crosses of the war near Mons in August 1914 (Lieutenant Maurice Dease and Private Sidney Godley), and the last two in North Russia. The Stock Exchange Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers was formed in 1914 when 1,600 members of the Exchange joined up: 400 were killed during the war. The 23rd and 24th (Service) Battalion, better known as the Sportsman's Battalions, were among the Pals battalions. The 25th (Frontiersmen) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers served in East Africa. The 38th through 42nd Battalions of the regiment served as the Jewish Legion in Palestine. The Jewish Legion (1917–1921) is an unofficial name used to refer to five battalions of Jewish volunteers, the 38th to 42nd (Service) Battalions of the Royal Fusiliers, raised in the British Army to fight against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Many of its members went on to be part of the founding of the State of Israel in 1948.