When the Bermuda Militia Artillery (a reserve sub-unit of the Royal Artillery) had been re-tasked as a company of infantry on the closure of St. David's Battery in 1953, it had been grouped with the Bermuda Rifles under a battalion-level headquarters company titled Headquarters Bermuda Local Forces (not to be confused with the Command Headquarters of the Bermuda Garrison, to which it was subsidiary, with Governor of Bermuda Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Hood serving as Commander-in-Chief and Brigadier J.C. Smith, Royal Artillery, as Officer Commanding Troops) with a lieutenant-colonel in command.
When the Bermuda Militia Artillery (a reserve sub-unit of the Royal Artillery) had been reassigned as an infantry company following the closure of St. David's Battery in 1953, it was combined with the Bermuda Rifles under a battalion-level headquarters titled Headquarters Bermuda Local Forces (not to be confused with the Command Headquarters of the Bermuda Garrison, which it was subordinate to, with Governor of Bermuda Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Hood serving as Commander-in-Chief and Brigadier J.C. Smith, Royal Artillery, as Officer Commanding Troops) with a lieutenant-colonel in command.