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    The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American...
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    13th Middlesex (Queen's Westminster) Volunteer Rifle Corps and were attached to the King's Royal Rifle Corps as a Volunteer Battalion. In 1886 the battalion...
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    the 2nd Green Jackets (King's Royal Rifle Corps) to form the Royal Green Jackets on 1 January 1966. In 1800, an "Experimental Corps of Riflemen", was raised...
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    the Fijian Labour Corps and 357 in the King's Royal Rifle Corps; 173 died. The service given by members of the Fijian Labour Corps was recognised with...
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  • Century from earlier precursor units. It later became part of the King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC). Primarily intended for home defence, it served in England...
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  • Jackets (43rd and 52nd) 2nd Green Jackets, the King's Royal Rifle Corps 3rd Green Jackets, the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own). There were also...
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    The 21st (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps (Yeoman Rifles), (21st KRRC) was an infantry unit recruited by Charles Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham...
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    (King's Royal Rifle Corps), 3rd Green Jackets (Rifle Brigade). Grenadier Guards Coldstream Guards Scots Guards Irish Guards Welsh Guards The Royal Scots...
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  • surviving cadre of 7th Bn Rifle Brigade and joined 14th (Light) Division. Absorbed the cadre of 7th Bn Kings Royal Rifle Corps, and joined 16th (Irish)...
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    William Beesley (category King's Royal Rifle Corps soldiers)
    forces. Beesley was 22 years old, and a private in the 13th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), British Army during the First World War...
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    V Corps. Corps Commander: Lieutenant-General Edward Fanshawe VII Corps. Corps Commander: Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas d'Oyly Snow VIII Corps. Corps Commander:...
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    Foot 77th (The East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot King's Royal Rifle Corps 60th (The King's Royal Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot The (Duke of Edinburgh's) Wiltshire...
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    and 52nd) from 7 November 1958, the King's Royal Rifle Corps (which had been at Peninsula Barracks) and the Rifle Brigade (which had also been at Peninsula...
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    7th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps (left February 1918) 8th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps 7th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's...
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    it became the 9th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps (The Rangers). In 1947, the battalion became The Rangers, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)...
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    ISBN 0-9508205-2-0. Lord, Cliff; Watson, Graham (2003) Royal Corps of Signals: Unit Histories of the Corps (1920–2001) and its Antecedents, Solihull: Helion...
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  • Ronald Armstrong-Jones (category King's Royal Rifle Corps officers)
    World War he returned to the army and served as a Major in the King's Royal Rifle Corps; he was invalided out in 1945, after serving as Deputy Judge Advocate...
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    The 13th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, (13th KRRC) was an infantry unit recruited as part of 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I. It served...
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    1878 by Lieutenant Basil Templer Graham-Montgomery, of the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps, while serving in India.[citation needed] Due to its former use...
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    King's Royal Irish Hussars Canal Brigade 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps Directly controlled by British Troops in Egypt 3rd Regiment, Royal Horse...
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    contains one Commonwealth war grave, of a World War I officer of the King's Royal Rifle Corps. Augustus Anson (1835–1877), Victoria Cross recipient and former...
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  • than specified by the initial scheme. In addition, the King's Royal Rifle Corps and the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) had no local regimental districts...
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    marshal is not used in the Royal Marines, the insignia is used on the uniform of the Captain General, the ceremonial head of the corps (equivalent to colonel-in-chief)...
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  • Victor Richardson (British Army officer) (category King's Royal Rifle Corps officers)
    July 1915. In September 1916, Richardson transferred to the 9th King's Royal Rifle Corps and was sent to the Western Front. He wrote to Vera Brittain on...
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    Stephen Garvin (category King's Royal Rifle Corps soldiers)
    Stephen Garvin VC, DCM (c. 1826 – 23 November 1874), born in Cashel, County Tipperary, was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award...
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    Douglas Walter Belcher (category King's Royal Rifle Corps officers)
    volunteered pre-war as Rifleman No.9539 with the 5th London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade), T.F., in March 1913, and was mobilized on United Kingdom's declaration...
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    The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) was a specialist corps in the British Army which provided medical services to all Army personnel and their families...
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  • Michael Aspel (category King's Royal Rifle Corps soldiers)
    as a conscript during his national service, in the ranks of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, from 1951 to 1953. Aspel worked as a drainpipe-layer and gardener...
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    Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson (category King's Royal Rifle Corps officers)
    training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Rawlinson entered the British Army as a lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps in India on 6 February...
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    John Standing (category King's Royal Rifle Corps officers)
    Eton College and Millfield School, Somerset. He served in the King's Royal Rifle Corps as a second lieutenant, before going on to study at the Byam Shaw...
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