the White Tower of the Tower of London and it adopted scarlet uniforms (in place of the grey of many early Volunteer units). When the Cardwell Reforms introduced 'Localisation of the Forces' in 1873, the THRB was brigaded, together with several other Volunteer and Militia battalions in the London area, in Brigade No 53 & 54 under the Rifle Brigade. As part of the Childers Reforms in 1881, the THRVB became a Volunteer Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, but without changing its title or its scarlet uniform faced with blue. When the Volunteers were assigned a role in the mobilisation scheme outlined by the Stanhope Memorandum of 1888, the Tower Hamlets RVCs formed part of the East London Brigade, together with the City of London RVCs and the Middlesex RVCs formed by employees of the Customs and Post Office. The THRVB formed a Machine Gun Battery in 1886, and this became the nucleus of the MG section of the City Imperial Volunteers that served in the 2nd Boer War. Other volunteers from the battalion were attached to other units, and the battalion was granted the Battle honour South Africa 1900. The THRVB transferred from the Rifle Brigade to the Royal Fusiliers (The City of London Regiment) in 1904 when its title changed to the 4th Volunteer Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Subsequently, it became part of the Royal Fusiliers Brigade in the mobilisation scheme. Territorial Force On the formation of the Territorial Force (TF) in 1908 as part of the Haldane Reforms, the Volunteer units in and around London were formed into a new London Regiment, with the 4th Volunteer Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers becoming the 4th (City of London) Battalion, the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), conveniently shortened to '4th Londons'. The 1st–4th Bns London Regiment (formerly the 1st–4th VBs Royal Fusiliers) remained brigaded together as the 1st London Brigade of the 1st London Division of the TF. World War I Mobilisation The 1st London Division left by train from Waterloo station on Sunday 2 August 1914 for its annual training camp, which was to be held at Wareham, Dorset. No sooner had the 4th Londons reached camp than it received orders to return to London for mobilisation. This process had been carefully planned, and was completed on 3 August, the battalion entraining again shortly after midnight, so that before war was declared on 4 August the battalions of the 1st