London 25th Regt

Here are some WW1 army service numbers and the corresponding joining dates for the 25th London Bn.

Service number		Date joined
160	joined up on	April 25th 1908
518	joined up on	February 11th 1909
692	joined up on	February 21st 1910
818	joined up on	April 6th 1911
873	joined up on	March 14th 1912
965	joined up on	May 6th 1913
1039	joined up on	January 13th 1914
1109	joined up on	August 4th 1914
1842	joined up on	December 1st 1914
2105	joined up on	January 21st 1915
2142	joined up on	February 1st 1915
2171	joined up on	March 9th 1915
2336	joined up on	April 13th 1915
2438	joined up on	May 21st 1915
2517	joined up on	June 3rd 1915
2555	joined up on	July 13th 1915
2658	joined up on	October 23rd 1915
2740	joined up on	November 4th 1915
3018	joined up on	December 11th 1915
3385	joined up on	February 29th 1916
3412	joined up on	March 3rd 1916
3832	joined up on	April 15th 1916
4019	joined up on	May 4th 1916
4223	joined up on	September 20th 1916
4342	joined up on	November 29th 1916

When the Territorial Force was re-numbered in 1917, the 25th Londons were allocated six digit numbers within the range 740001 to 760000.

However it would appear that the medal cards, where I obtained most of the soldier's numbers, do not always include the early numbers as most men would have certainly joined prior to 1917.

My thanks to Paul Nixon for permission to reproduce this list from his own website :-

http://armyservicenumbers.blogspot.com/2009/01/25th-county-of-london-battalion-london.html