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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 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.
During the First World War the British Armed Forces was enlarged to many times its peacetime strength. This was done mainly by adding new battalions to existing regiments (the King's Royal Rifles raised a total of 26 battalions).
At the outbreak of the First World War, the Northumberland Fusiliers consisted of seven battalions: [8]. the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Regular Army – in common with all line infantry regiments of the British Army at this time, one was at home (1st Battalion at Portsmouth) and the other was overseas (2nd Battalion at Sabathu, India)
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
7th (Service) Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment; 7th (Service) Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment) (disbanded February 1918) 6th (Service) Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment (from March 1915) 7th (Service) Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment (until March 1915) 51st Brigade. 7th (Service) Battalion, Lincolnshire ...
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery on 1 March 1944 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Field Artillery Group. 1st Battalion on 1 March 1944 as the 17th Field Artillery Battalion. 2d Battalion on 14 February 1944 as the 630th Field Artillery Battalion. After 1 March 1944 the above units underwent changes as follows: