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Men of the 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade take cover as a mortar bomb explodes in a stream in the village of Nieuwstadt, north of Sittard, the Netherlands, 3 January 1945. The 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade was in England on the outbreak of the Second World War, originally part of the 1st Support Group, part of the 1st Armoured Division. [47]
The Prince Albert Volunteers or Prince Albert Rifles were organized in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, North-West Territories, for service in the Canadian Militia during the North-West Rebellion. "Gentleman" Joe McKay , an Anglo-Métis scout of the North-West Mounted Police was sent to Prince Albert from Fort Carlton to enlist about 20 men as ...
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Formally, the regiment became the 8th (Leitrim Militia) Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) on 1 July 1881. [4] [5] [33] The Rifle Brigade Depot was at Peninsula Barracks, Winchester, but the militia battalions retained their own headquarters. [33] However, by the late 1880s the 8th Battalion was under threat.
Formally, the regiment became the 9th (Westmeath Militia) Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) on 1 July 1881 [4] [44] The Rifle Brigade Depot was at Peninsula Barracks, Winchester, but the militia battalions retained their own headquarters.
Amalgamated 15 March 1920 with the 52nd Regiment Prince Albert Volunteers and redesignated as The North Saskatchewan Regiment Reorganized on 15 May 1924 as four separate regiments: The Yorkton Regiment (now the 64th Field Battery , 10th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA ); The Saskatoon Light Infantry ; The Battleford Light Infantry and The Prince ...
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [26]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
Organization IV (February 1942) reorganized divisions into one armoured brigade group and one motorised brigade group, each with attached artillery and engineers. Organization VI (August 1942) was the essentially same as organization V which was applied in the U.K. only, applied in the Middle East two months later.