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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 as part of 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I. It served on the Western Front, including the battles of the Somme and the Ancre, the Third Battle of Ypres and the German spring offensives.
The 17th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (Empire), (17th RF) was a 'Pals battalion' recruited as part of 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I.It served with the 2nd Division on the Western Front from November 1915 until the Armistice, seeing action on the Somme and the Ancre, at Arras and Cambrai (where one of its officers won the Victoria Cross), against the German spring offensive, and in ...
The 18th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps (Arts and Crafts) (18th KRRC) was an infantry unit recruited as part of 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I. It was was raised in the summer of 1915 by the politician Sir Herbert Raphael at Gidea Park in Essex. It served on the Western Front from May 1916, seeing action on the Somme.
17th (Service) Battalion, King's (Liverpool Regiment) (1st City), formed at Liverpool, 29 August 1914 by Lord Derby; reduced to cadre in France, June 1918; reconstituted from personnel of 28th (Service) Bn, King's (Liverpool Regiment), 3 July 1918; disbanded at Ripon, 13 September 1919
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 Volunteer corps dating back to 1859. It saw considerable service on the Western Front , at Salonika and in Palestine during the First World War .
17th (Service) Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment (divisional pioneers, joined June 1918) 244th Machine Gun Company ( joined July 1917, moved to 40th Battalion M.G.C. March 1918 ) 40th Battalion M.G.C. ( formed March 1918, disbanded May 1918 )
2 x Parachute Battalions; 1 x Infantry Battalion (2nd Battalion The Wessex Regiment (Volunteers). Note that while this was a Territorial Army battalion, it was a resident unit of the brigade, not part of the Territorial Army enhancement described below). 1 x Gurkha Battalion; 1 x Armoured Recce Regiment Life Guards/ The Blues & Royals
The 17th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers was one of the numerous Pals Battalions formed in the North East of England on Kitchener's call for men during the early parts of the First World War. [1] The battalion was raised by the North Eastern Railway (NER) and was the only pals battalions to be raised by a single company.