The 17th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles), was a unit of Britain's Territorial Force formed in 1908 from...
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East End of London (section St Dunstan and Stepney)
units were generally based on more local areas, for instance the Poplar and Stepney Rifles. The First World War saw a proliferation of local battalions,...
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Tower Division (category Hundreds and divisions of Middlesex)
battalions (1/4th, 2/4th, 3/4th and 4/4th); while the Poplar and Stepney Rifles were "duplicated" to form the 1/17th, 2/17th and 3/17th. The Tower Hamlets Engineers...
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East Harling (section Church of St Peter and St Paul)
Rifles Rifleman Frederick F. Beales (1899–1918), 12th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps Rifleman H. E. Alderton (d.1916), 17th (Poplar and Stepney Rifles)...
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Arts and Crafts Battalion The Wearside Battalion The Yeomen Rifles Battalion The 2nd Public Works Battalion City of London Regiment Poplar and Stepney Rifles...
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London Regiment (1908–1938) (category Military units and formations in London)
successors of the original regiment (not including, for example, the Artists Rifles or Kensington Regiment (Princess Louise's)), which were part of a number...
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180th (2/5th London) Brigade (category Military units and formations in London)
Division and served in the Middle East. All battalions of the London Regiment as follows: 2/17th (County of London) Battalion (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) 2/18th...
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Yeomanry as a Private. He served on the Western Front with the 17th (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment, one of the units of the 5th London...
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141st (5th London) Brigade (category Military units and formations established in 1908)
London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles), headquartered in Bow. 18th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (London Irish Rifles), headquartered...
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Regiment (Poplar and Stepney), with its drill hall at 66 Tredegar Road, Bow. The part-time Territorials were mobilised on the outbreak of World War I and the...
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Rifles)) until November 1917 Maj R. Groves-Raines, DSO, until December 1917 Lt-Col F.R. Grimwood, DSO (formerly of 1/17th Londons (Poplar and Stepney...
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168th (2nd London) Brigade (category Military units and formations established in 1908)
Londons and transferred to the 1st London Brigade, while the 2nd Tower Hamlets and 15th Middlesex combined to form the 17th Londons (Poplar and Stepney Rifles)...
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George Lindsay (British Army officer) (category Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George)
adjutant of the successor battalion, the 17th London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles), remaining with the battalion until 1911. During this time, he...
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Miscellaneous List Quartermaster and Captain George John William Townsend, 17th London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles), Territorial Army Captain Bernard...
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140th (4th London) Brigade (category Military units and formations established in 1908)
1916. 1/17th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) joined from 141st (5th London) Bde 1 February 1918. 1/21st (County...
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List of units of the British Army Territorial Force (1908) (category Lists of British Army units and formations)
or raised in that year under the terms of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907, and the associations by which they were administered. The County...
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169th (3rd London) Brigade (category Military units and formations established in 1908)
Regiment (Tower Hamlets Rifles), previously the 17th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) and, more recently, 17th London...
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Regiment (Poplar & Stepney), with its drill hall at 66 Tredegar Road, Bow. The part-time Territorials were mobilised on the outbreak of World War I and the...
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and were formed into Provisional Battalions for home defence. The men of the First Surrey Rifles joined with those from the 17th (Poplar & Stepney Rifles)...
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Betty Ridley (category People from Poplar, London)
Henry Mosley and his wife Mildred Willis. Her father, was then Rector of Poplar, London. He was in 1919 appointed Bishop of Stepney and, in 1928 Bishop...
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the Home Service men of the 17th (Poplar & Stepney Rifles), 18th (London Irish Rifles) and 21st (1st Surrey Rifles) Bns, London Regiment to become 31st...
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Lewisham, Paddington, Poplar, St Marylebone, St Pancras, Shoreditch, Southwark, Stepney, Stoke Newington, Wandsworth, Westminster, and Woolwich (including...
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Ancre British Cemetery (category British military memorials and cemeteries)
officers and men from the United Kingdom, primarily from the 36th and Royal Naval Divisions, 17th Sherwood Foresters and 17th King's Royal Rifles. Station...
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is a cemetery located in the Somme region of France commemorating British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in the Battle of the Somme in World War...
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is a cemetery located in the Somme region of France commemorating British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in the Battle of the Somme in World War...
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H. Redpath, Royal Highlanders (Perth) L. Cpl. J. Regan, London Reg. (Stepney) Pte. C. Reid, Seaforth Highlanders (Lossiemouth) Sgt. F. Reid, Royal West...
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Campbell Greenlees DSO RAMC Capt. Cecil Champagne Herbert-Stepney DSO King's Royal Rifle Corps Maj. and Bt. Lt.-Col. Charles Graeme Higgins DSO Oxfordshire...
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Stones (St Johns Wood, Stepney, Knightsbridge) "The Pleasures of Spring Gardens, Vauxhall" by William Boyce "The Ploughboy And The Cockney" by Tim Hart...
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Belgian Refugees, Poplar and Stepney Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin Bolton — Member of the Stirling Local Tribunal James Ryding Bond — Secretary and Executive Officer...
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89th Brigade (United Kingdom) (category Military units and formations in Liverpool)
cadre, mainly with men from 8th Rifle Brigade 2/17th London Regiment (Poplar & Stepney) – joined 30 June 1918 fromPalestine 89th TM Bty – reformed by 10 July...
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