known informally as the 'Isle of Wight Rifles', was an auxiliary unit of the British Army formed to defend the Isle of Wight after a mid-19th Century...
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The Isle of Wight (/waɪt/ WYTE) is an island, English county and unitary authority in the English Channel, 2 to 5 miles (3 to 8 kilometres) off the coast...
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The Isle of Wight is rich in historical and archaeological sites, from prehistoric fossil beds with dinosaur remains, to dwellings and artefacts dating...
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Albany Barracks (category Installations of the British Army)
of Foot preparing for action in the Peninsular War. In 1859 the Isle of Wight Rifles was raised as a defence force for the Island and stationed at the...
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Platoon was redesignated as 9 (Isle of Wight) Platoon, losing its connection with Princess Beatrice's Isle of Wight Rifles. In 2003, the Future Army Structure...
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Lord Leopold Mountbatten (redirect from Prince Leopold of Battenberg)
lieutenant (supernumerary) on 16 October 1909 in the 8th Battalion of the Isle of Wight Rifles, a Territorial Force unit. On 19 October 1912, he received a...
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The Royal Irish Rifles The Irish Lancers – 5th Royal Irish Lancers The Isle of Wight Gurkhas – Princess Beatrice's Isle of Wight rifles, 8th Battalion...
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Drill Hall Road Army Reserve Centre (redirect from Drill Hall Road Army Reserve Centre, Newport, Isle of Wight)
(Isle of Wight Rifles) Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery in 1938, a unit which evolved to become the 530th The Princess Beatrice's (Isle of Wight Rifles)...
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resigned from the army but on 23 May 1913 he took command of Princess Beatrice's Isle of Wight Rifles of the Territorial Force as Lieutenant-Colonel. In World...
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Hampshire Brigade (category Volunteer Infantry Brigades of the British Army)
four-battalion establishment, so the 8th (Isle of Wight Rifles, 'Princess Beatrice's) Bn remained unattached under the orders of Southern Command, allocated to 'Southern...
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St Olave's Church, Gatcombe (category Church of England church buildings on the Isle of Wight)
Olave's Church, Gatcombe is a parish church in the Church of England located in Gatcombe, Isle of Wight. It is grouped with Sts Thomas Minster, Newport, St...
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Royal Hampshire Regiment (category Regiments of the British Army in World War I)
moved to Aden. The 1/8th (Isle of Wight Rifles, Princess Beatrice's) Battalion landed at Suvla Bay in Gallipoli as part of the 163rd Brigade in the 54th...
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The Isle of Wight Festival 2009 was the eighth revived Isle of Wight Festival to be held at Seaclose Park in Newport on the Isle of Wight. The event took...
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163rd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) (category Infantry brigades of the British Army)
to the 3rd (Lahore) Division of the British Indian Army and were replaced in the brigade by the 1/8th (Isle of Wight Rifles) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment...
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54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
France, November 1914) 1/5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment 1/8th (Isle of Wight Rifles, Princess Beatrice's) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment (from 19 April...
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Bouldnor Battery (category Buildings and structures on the Isle of Wight)
was manned by the Isle of Wight Rifles. The battery was stood down in December 1942, although it was reactivated with the addition of a Bofors anti-aircraft...
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Hurst Castle (redirect from Governor of Hurst Castle)
re-armed in 1940 with two 12-pounder (5.4 kg) guns and a unit of the Isle of Wight Rifles was stationed there, controlled from the Fire Control Needles...
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Carey Morris (category Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art)
on the Isle of Wight serving with the Isle of Wight Rifles from 1915 to 1917 and found some time during the war to paint. In the trenches of Flanders...
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Jotsoma, Khonoma and Mezoma Villages with an escort of 65 constables of the Frontier Police and 21 Rifles from the 43rd Assam Light Infantry because the Naga...
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Princess Beatrice's (Isle of Wight Rifles) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) – converted from part of Princess Beatrice's (IoW Rifles) Heavy Regiment September...
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Thomas Edward Rendle (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Fourth Degree)
the Isle of Wight on 2 August 1916. After the war, he emigrated to South Africa where he became bandmaster of the Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles. His...
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Brighstone Grange Lifeboat Station (category Lifeboat stations on the Isle of Wight)
by the band of the Isle of Wight Rifles, and handed over to the Isle of Wight Lifeboat Board. Launched to the aid of the steamship Duke of Westminster...
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King's Dutch Brigade (category British military units and formations of the Napoleonic Wars)
initially in garrison on the Isle of Wight and in Lymington. It saw service in Ireland in 1801, and afterwards back to the Isle of Wight and Lymington as well...
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Landguard Manor (category Country houses on the Isle of Wight)
Landguard Manor (or Languard) is a manor house in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight, England. Mentioned in the Domesday Book, over the centuries it was home...
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1st Hampshire Artillery Volunteers (category Artillery Volunteer Corps of the British Army)
outbreak of war the regiment and its three batteries mobilised in the Portsmouth Defences. Together with Princess Beatrice's (Isle of Wight Rifles) Heavy...
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Military Nursng Service Quartermaster and Captain George Giddens, 8th (Isle of Wight Rifles, Princess Beatrice's) Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment, Territorial...
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Orkney Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery (category Heavy regiments of the Royal Artillery)
with regiments in the rest of the UK: 533rd (Orkney) Rgt: 129 Bty – from 530th Princess Beatrice's (Isle of Wight Rifles) Coast Rgt by 13 April 1943...
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Shanklin, Isle of Wight, in 1862, the son of Captain Charles Douglas-Hamilton (1808–1873). His grandfather, Augustus Hamilton, was a son of Charles Powell...
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Spring Hill, East Cowes (category Country houses on the Isle of Wight)
on the Isle of Wight, England, the centre-piece of which is the large landmark manor house of the same name. It was to become the family home of the Shedden...
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King's Royal Rifle Corps (redirect from 60th Rifles)
Barbados, with additional companies formed on the Isle of Wight, and equipped entirely with rifles. The troops of the 5th battalion were so effective that Sir...
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