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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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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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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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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The 17th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps (British Empire League), (17th KRRC) was an infantry unit recruited by the British Empire League...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield (category King's Royal Rifle Corps officers)
in Hertfordshire, Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned in the King's Royal Rifle Corps. He fought in the Middle East during...
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The Rangers (British battalion) (redirect from 40th (Central London Rifle Rangers) Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps)
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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George Peachment (category King's Royal Rifle Corps soldiers)
battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, later transferring to the 2nd battalion. Peachment was a private in the 2nd Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, British...
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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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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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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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First Battle of the Marne (category Battle honours of the King's Royal Rifle Corps)
left-hand corps of the Sixth Army, as indications appeared that German troops were also being moved from the eastern flank. The German IX Reserve Corps arrived...
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Green Jackets Brigade (category King's Royal Rifle Corps)
single battalion. The Brigade combined the depots of: The King's Royal Rifle Corps The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) Under the Defence Review announced...
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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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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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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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