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At Helmsley, where the battalion was raised, there is a marble plaque in the market square inscribed: 'To the Glorious Memory of our Comrades of the 21st (S) Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (Yeoman Rifles), who gave their lives in the Great War'. This was erected by the surviving members of the battalion. [58]
The 21st (Service) Battalion (Yeoman Rifles) landed in France as part of the 124th Brigade in the 41st Division in May 1916 for service on the Western Front but moved to Italy in November 1917 before returning to France in March 1918. [22] Seven members of the regiment received the Victoria Cross. [34]
15th (Reserve) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps; 17th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps (British Empire League) 18th Training Reserve Battalion; 21st (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps (Yeoman Rifles) 24th (Reserve) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps; 51st (Graduated) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps; 51st (Service ...
16th (Service) Battalion, Rifle Brigade (St Pancras) 17th (Reserve) Battalion, Rifle Brigade; 10th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (Stockbrokers) 17th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (Empire) 18th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (1st Public Schools) 19th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (2nd Public Schools)
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]
The 13th (Service) Battalion, Rifle Brigade, (13th RB) was an infantry unit recruited as part of 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I. It served on the Western Front from July 1915 until the Armistice , seeing action at the Somme where it was half-destroyed in its first attack, and later at the Ancre , at Arras and Ypres , against the German ...
11th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps (Railway Rifles) 12th (Eastern) Divisional Signals; 14th (Inns of Court) Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps; 15th Middlesex (The Customs and Docks) Rifle Volunteer Corps; 16th (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Public Schools) 17th (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (1st Football)
13th (Service) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps (left April 1915) 13th (Service) Battalion, Rifle Brigade (left April 1915) 237th Machine Gun Company (joined 17 July 1917, transferred into 21st MG Battalion 24 February 1918) 21st Battalion Machine Gun Corps (formed 24 February 1918) Divisional Mounted Troops A Sqn, South Irish Horse ...