• The Flintshire Militia, later the Royal Flint Rifles was an auxiliary regiment reorganised in the Welsh county of Flintshire during the 18th century from...
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  • The Merionethshire Militia, later the Royal Merioneth Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county of...
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  • The Denbighshire Militia, later the Royal Denbighshire Rifles was an auxiliary regiment reorganised in the Welsh county of Denbighshire during the 18th...
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    1873 Royal Anglesey Light Infantry – converted to Engineers in 1877 Royal Flint Rifles Royal Denbigh and Merioneth Rifles Royal Carnarvon Rifles 1st Administrative...
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    Sir William Russell Flint (4 April 1880 – 30 December 1969) was a Scottish artist and illustrator who was known especially for his watercolours of women...
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  • The Carnarvonshire Militia, later the Royal Carnarvon Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised in the county of Caernarfonshire (then spelt Carnarvonshire)...
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    Flintlock (redirect from Flint-lock)
    Flintlock is a general term for any firearm that uses a flint-striking ignition mechanism, the first of which appeared in Western Europe in the early...
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  • facings for royal regiments effectively lapsed. That year, in celebration of his silver jubilee, King George V designated three regiments as royal. In each...
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  • The Radnorshire Militia, later the Royal Radnor Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursors in the Welsh county of Radnorshire...
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    estate of Lieutenant Colonel Philip Lloyd Fletcher, commander of the Royal Flint Rifles. It was later sold to the Kenyon family, local landowners. The hall...
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  • shotguns, battle rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, personal defense weapons, carbines, designated marksman rifles, multiple-barrel...
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    Rifles (Welchpool) 2nd Brigade (Chester) Clare Militia (Enniskillen), Royal Flint Rifles (Mold), Carnarvon Militia (Caernarfon) Divisional Troops Cheshire...
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    Firearm (section Rifles)
    can be described by their caliber (i.e. bore diameter). For pistols and rifles this is given in millimeters or inches (e.g. 7.62mm or .308 in.); in the...
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    A snaphance or snaphaunce is a type of firearm lock in which a flint struck against a striker plate above a steel pan ignites the priming powder which...
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  • The Cardiganshire Militia, later the Royal Cardigan Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county of...
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    Henry Pellatt (category Queen's Own Rifles of Canada)
    married with no children. Pellatt enlisted as a rifleman with The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada on 2 November 1876. He rose through the ranks and eventually became...
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    The flintlock mechanism is a type of lock used on muskets, rifles, and pistols from the early 17th to the mid-19th century. It is commonly referred to...
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  • made to convert the Royal Carmarthen Rifles to artillery and amalgamate it with the Royal Pembroke Artillery. In June 1861 the Royal Carmarthen and Pembroke...
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    the Royal Military Police who was attached to 3rd Battalion The Rifles, and Lance Corporal Christopher Roney aged 23, from 3rd Battalion the Rifles, who...
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  • The Pembrokeshire Militia, later the Royal Pembroke Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county of...
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    The Oxford Rifles and became the London and Oxford Fusiliers (3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment) – now the 4th Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment...
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    Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) 12th (Finsbury Rifles) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) 13th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery...
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  • The Brecknockshire Militia, later the Royal Brecknockshire Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county...
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    for pistols and larger sizes for rifles and muskets. Earlier firearms used flintlock mechanisms causing a piece of flint to strike a steel frizzen producing...
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  • Burton, The Royal Gurkha Rifles – 14 June 2024 Major David Alexander Edmondson, Army Air Corps – 14 June 2024 Captain Barry Kieron Green, Royal Regiment...
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    Harclerode, p.551 Wilson, p.228 Wilson, p.250 Joslen, p. 106-107. Flint p90 "Army Notes". Royal United Services Institution. 91:564 (564): 610. 1946. doi:10...
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    School, The Rifles 233 (Camden) in Russell Square, King's Royal Rifles Corps 234 City of Westminster City School Detachment, The Rifles 235 (Westminster)...
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  • Battalion, 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles 10th Battalion, 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles, Lansdowne 11th (Territorial) Battalion, 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles, Lansdowne...
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  • the ABC. The chairman of the Australian Press Council at the time, David Flint, argued that because Australian newspapers regularly ignored contempt-of-court...
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  • regiment, the 1st Flint & Carnarvon becoming a volunteer battalion of the RWF on 1 July 1881; it was redesignated 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers...
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