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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 ...
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 .
15th (1st City of Edinburgh) (Service) (Cranston's Battalion) Edinburgh, September 1914 Western Front Disbanded in August 1918 16th (2nd City of Edinburgh) (Service) (McCrae's Battalion) Edinburgh, December 1914 Western Front Disbanded in August 1918 17th (Service) (Rosebery's Bantams) Edinburgh, February 1915 Western Front
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 Regimeht; 7th (Service) Battalion, Border Regiment
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.
25th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (Frontiersmen) served in the East African Campaign from May 1915 to the end of 1917 [23] 21st (Service) Battalion, Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) (Wool Textile Pioneers) as Pioneers in the Regular 4th Division [24]