The City of Bristol Rifles was a Volunteer unit of the British Army from 1859 to 1955. It became a battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment and fought...
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Bristol (/ˈbrɪstəl/ ) is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region. Built around...
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The Rifles is an infantry regiment of the British Army. Formed in 2007, it consists of four Regular battalions and three Reserve battalions. Each Regular...
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2nd Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteers (redirect from 14th (City of Gloucester Rifles) Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteer Corps)
throughout Great Britain to supplement the Regular Army and Militia. The City of Bristol Rifles raised on 13 September 1859 became the 1st Gloucestershire RVC,...
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Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (category The Rifles)
(from A and C Companies, 1st Battalion, Wessex Regiment) B (City of Bristol) Company, at Bristol (from B Company, 1st Battalion, Wessex Regiment) C (Wiltshire)...
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Glade Spring, Virginia (category Kingsport–Bristol metropolitan area)
is part of the Kingsport–Bristol (TN)–Bristol (VA) Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, TN-VA Combined...
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Dorset) Company, Exeter (including Band and Bugles of 6 RIFLES) A (Gloucestershire) Company, Gloucester/Bristol B Company, Taunton/Exeter C (Devonshire and Dorset)...
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Headquarters, in Bristol 43 (Wessex and City & County of Bristol) Signal Squadron, in Bath 857 (City and County of Bristol) Signal Troop, in Bristol 53 (Wales...
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established regular regiment and were titled the 95th Regiment of Foot (Rifles). In 1816, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, they were again renamed, this time...
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West Yorkshire Regiment (redirect from 14th (Buckinghamshire, The Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot)
badge on the black beret of the RAC. 51st (Leeds Rifles) Royal Tank Regiment, formed as a 2nd Line duplicate of 45th (Leeds Rifles) Royal Tank Regiment (previously...
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Leeds (redirect from City of leeds transport area)
web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) "Freedom of City for The Rifles Regiment". News.leeds.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 31 August...
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Queen Camilla (redirect from Camilla, queen consort of Charles III of Great Britain)
in 2012, she opened two veterinary facilities at the University of Bristol's School of Veterinary Sciences at Langford in Somerset, which provide treatment...
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Militia, later the Royal Radnor Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursors in the Welsh county of Radnorshire in the 17th century...
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Boshin War (redirect from War of the Year of the Dragon)
Shūhan. The daimyō of Nagaoka Domain, however, an ally of the shōgun, possessed two Gatling guns and several thousand modern rifles. The shogunate is known...
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Ensign in the 74th Regiment but is then transferred to the newly formed 95th Rifles as a second lieutenant during Sharpe's Trafalgar. He is gradually promoted...
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The following is a list of all the episodes that featured in all 14 series of London's Burning (1988–2002). This list includes the original 1986 TV film...
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Duke of Teck (17th Lancers) Prince Francis of Teck (9th Queen's Royal Lancers) Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein (King's Royal Rifles) Crown...
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King's Royal Rifle Corps (redirect from 60th Rifles)
Battalion, Royal Green Jackets, eventually becoming 2nd Battalion, The Rifles in 2007. The King's Royal Rifle Corps was raised in the American colonies...
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Rees. Mayor, Bristol City Council. For services to Local Government. Professor Julian Daryl Richards. Professor of Archaeology, University of York. For services...
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Rifles, 30079495. Sergeant Alan Gary Boyle, The Mercian Regiment, Army Reserve, 25024349. Lieutenant Colonel Mark Howard Kearton Bulmer VR, Corps of Royal...
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his native Wiltshire to Bristol during the agricultural depression of the 1860s and 1870s, and Eliza Jane Thatcher, daughter of a policeman. He was named...
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Most corps wear the same patterns of belt as their counterparts in the British Army Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles; The QAMR belt is black with a central...
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Oxford (redirect from City of dreaming spires)
north-west of London, 64 miles (103 km) south-east of Birmingham and 61 miles (98 km) north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the University of Oxford...
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Royal Brecknockshire Militia (redirect from Royal Brecon Rifles)
the Royal Brecknockshire Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county of Brecknockshire during the...
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Albert Rockwell (category 20th-century members of the Connecticut General Assembly)
Rockwell donated 12 acres of undeveloped land, formerly known as Dunbar Meadows, to the city of Bristol for the construction of a new high school, athletic...
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set in New York City or named after a location or feature of the city, beyond simply "name-checking" New York along with other cities. Contents 0–9 A...
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Wells, Somerset (redirect from City of Wells)
south-east of Weston-super-Mare, 22 mi (35 km) south-west of Bath and 23 mi (37 km) south of Bristol. Although the population recorded in the 2011 census was...
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Bloomsbury 9th (1st City of London) Battalion, The City of London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), Balham 1st Battalion, London Irish Rifles, Duke of York's Headquarters...
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Michelle Goodman (category People educated at Bristol Grammar School)
on 22 November 1976 in Bristol, England. She spent her early life there, attending Gracefield Preparatory School and Bristol Grammar School, a private...
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Reginald Dyer (redirect from Butcher of Amritsar)
Gurkhas of 1/9 Gurkha Rifles (1st battalion, 9th Gurkha Rifles), 25 Pathans and Baluch and 59th Sindh Rifles, armed with .303 Lee–Enfield rifles. He also...
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