Cap Badge - 10th City of London Battalion - "Hackney" This badge was sold by Jim Purdy for $25.00 on e-Bay in the Spring/Summer of 2017. This badge was deemed irrelevant to the museum. The money was used to purchase relevant badges for the collection. The unit was raised in October 1912 as the 10th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment. The battalion took the number of the former Paddington Rifles which had been disbanded earlier in the year due to poor recruiting. The new 10th Battalion was based at The Grove, Hackney. Hackney had anomalously formed part of the area of the 7th Battalion, Essex Regiment, headquartered at Leyton. With the outbreak of war in August 1914 the 10th Battalion was mobilised for service. At the same time additional recruits allowed a "second line" battalion: the 2/10th to be formed in September and the existing unit was redesignated as the 1/10th. A "third line" duplicate, the 3/10th was formed in April 1915. The 1/10th Battalion served on the Western Front from 1917 while 2/10th Battalion took part in the Suvla landing and Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine campaigns.The 3/10th remained in the United Kingdom providing trained reinforcements. All three battalions were disbanded at the end of the conflict in 1918/1919. In 1920 the unit was reformed as part of the renamed Territorial Army (TA). In 1922 each of the battalions of the London Regiment was reconstituted as a separate regiment and accordingly they were renamed to 10th London Regiment (Hackney).