City of London Imperial Volunteers

The City of London Imperial Volunteers (CIV) was a British corps of volunteers during the Second Boer War.

After the outbreak of the Second Boer War in October 1899, volunteer corps were established in most counties of the United Kingdom to provide officers and men for service in South Africa. A corps of Imperial volunteers to be raised an equipped by the City of London was authorized by Royal Warrant dated 24 December 1899 with the name City of London Imperial Volunteers. The corps included infantry and mounted infantry divisions, about 1,400 men mostly recruited from existing volunteer regiments in London and Middlesex; and a field battery (artillery) division, about 150 men recruited from the Honourable Artillery Company and the City of London Artillery. It proceeded to South Africa in January 1900, returned in October the same year, and was disbanded 1 December 1900.

Colonel William Mackinnon served as Colonel commandant of the corps, with Major Gilbert McMicking in charge of the Field Battery, Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Cecil Cholmondeley in charge of Mounted Infantry, and Arnold Keppel, Earl of Albemarle in charge of Infantry.^[1]

Field Marshal Lord Roberts was Honorary Colonel.

References

• Annual Army list, militia list and yeomanry cavalry list for 1901, Lieutenant-General H. G. Hart (Hart's Army list 1901)