n of the Home Service
Provisional Battalion.

Captain S. Bowers.

Captain C. R. Bland.

Captain H. B. Prior.

Captain C. E. Johnstone.

Captain C. Furze.

Lieutenant B. E. Bland.

THIRD BATTALION.

The 3rd Battalion was raised on November 30th, 1914. The first
Commanding Officer was Colonel H. C. Cholmondeley, C.B. (see pages 3 and
4). The Battalion was fortunate in having the help of several old
members of the Regiment in the commissioned and non-commissioned ranks.
They were invaluable in carrying on to the new men the traditions and
esprit de corps of the London Rifle Brigade.

After some five months in London, the Battalion proceeded at the end of
April by train to Wimbledon, and on, by route march, to Tadworth, where
it went under canvas. Soon after its arrival Colonel Cholmondeley was
given command of a 4th Line Brigade, and the command of the Battalion
was taken over by Major Norman C. King, T.D., who went out to the front
with the 1st Battalion, and had been invalided home. Lieut.-Colonel
King, being the officer with the senior permanent rank on the cadre of
the Regiment, now commands it.

The system of training adopted was that of a public school; that is to
say, the company represented the house, and the Captain the house
master, who administered the company, but was not responsible for its
training. The instructors in each subject--e.g., drill, musketry,
bombing, etc.--each had their own staff of assistants, and every platoon
was taken up in turn for its lesson. This represented the forms of a
school. The system proved very successful, and received commendation
from high authority. It was subsequently recommended for adoption over
the whole of the Southern Command, but was too much of a departure from
tradition to be taken over as it stood, though it was recommended in a
modified form.

As the summer of 1915 passed on, officers from the 1st Battalion, who
had been wounded in the second battle of Ypres in April-May, were posted
to the 3rd Battalion on recovery. Thus began the circulation between the
1st and 3rd Battalions which has proved so invaluable in keeping close
touch and sympathy between those at the front and those at home.

On November 12th the Battalion moved to billets in Sutton, and received
the greatest kindness and consideration there. Everything possible was
done for the comfort of the Battalion, and not the