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The battalion is currently based in Dhekelia, British Forces Cyprus until 2025. 1 Rifles will return to Chepstow in the summer of 2025 to take on a new role as a Light Mechanised Battalion driving Foxhound vehicles. Towards the end of the decade, 1 Rifles will move to new build facilities at Caerwent Barracks. [7]
The 1st Battalion, The Rifles moved to the barracks in 2007. [2] The 1st Battalion, The Rifles are currently on a two year deployment in Dhekelia. They will return to Beachley Barracks in 2025, prior to moving to new build facilities at Caerwent Barracks, when the building project is complete, alongside 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards. [2]
Not long after the accidental shelling of a lagoon village by the A Battery, 1st Battalion, 14th Field Artillery Regiment, that Alpha Company was protecting (near an American firebase), O'Brien is offered a job at the rear and is airlifted away from the fighting, where he encounters a rear echelon officer, Major Callicles (battalion executive ...
2nd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps (1946–1948, 1950–1957) 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) (1946–1966) 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) (1946–1948) 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (1958–1966) 1st Battalion, Royal Green Jackets (1966–1968) 2nd Battalion ...
Men of the 9th Battalion, Rifle Brigade watch the destruction of a British supply dump at Hamra, El Alamein. The 9th Battalion was created in late May 1941 by re-naming the 1st Battalion, Tower Hamlets Rifles. [56] The battalion was part of the 2nd Support Group of the 2nd Armoured Division and then the 200th Guards Brigade until June 1942. [47]
Personnel of 1st Battalion, The Rifles on parade in Chepstow, 21 May 2009. A rifle regiment is a military unit consisting of a regiment of infantry troops armed with rifles and known as riflemen. While all infantry units in modern armies are typically armed with rifled weapons the term is still used to denote regiments that follow the distinct ...
Symbolism The shield is blue for Infantry. The gold billettes are taken from the arms of Nevers, the capital of the Department of Nièvre, Cosne, the first locations where the regiment was billeted in the War Zone, being in the Department of Nievre. The wolverine represents Michigan, the location of the 337th Infantry in 1921. The motto ...
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 battalion was formerly an individual battalion of one of the two large regiments of the Light Division (with the exception of the 1st Battalion, which is an amalgamation of two individual regiments).