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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 ...
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
17th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps (British Empire League) (left 16 August 1918) 16th (Service) Battalion, Rifle Brigade (St Pancras) (left August 1918) 117th Machine Gun Company (formed 18 May 1916, moved to 39th Battalion, M.G.C. 14 March 1918)
At this point the battalion was part of the 32nd Division. [2] At the beginning of 1915, the battalion saw a change of role from an infantry unit to a pioneer unit. The battalion returned from the East Yorkshire coast to Hull in February 1915 where they undertook training for service overseas.
the 37th Division was made up of 13 Army Troops battalions from the First (2), Second (2) and Third (9) New Armies. [ 19 ] the 14th (Service) Battalion, Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) was raised as part of the original 33rd Division of the Fourth New Army. [ 20 ]
Alfred Leete's recruitment poster for Kitchener's Army.. The New Army, often referred to as Kitchener's Army or, disparagingly, as Kitchener's Mob, [a] was an (initially) all-volunteer portion of the British Army formed in the United Kingdom from 1914 onwards following the outbreak of hostilities in the First World War in late July 1914.
Absorbed into 30th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment, October 1945 31st Aldershot Britain Disbanded, 15 May 1946 50th (Holding) Caterham, May 1940 Britain Redesignated as 15th Battalion, 9 October 1940 70th (Young Soldiers) 16 September 1940, from two companies of 11th (Home Service) Battalion Britain Converted to 17th PTC, 1942