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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.
Over succeeding weeks the 2/17th alternated in the L1 sector of the line, in support and in reserve with the 2/19th Londons.The 60th Division adopted coloured flashes painted on each side of the steel helmet to aid recognition: 180th Bde used a triangle, which was black in the case of the 2/17th Bn. [85] [86] During the summer the brigade was ...
There were two cadet battalions: 1st Cadet Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps and Queen Victoria's Rifles Cadet Corps (re-titled the 2nd Cadet Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1945). Over the years, the formation of the cadet battalions was changed regularly, due to the changes to do with rules and the commanding officer. [43]
8th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps: 5th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry: 6th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Lt.Inf. 7th Battalion, Rifle Brigade: 9th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps: 6th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Lt.Inf. 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade: 9th Battalion, Rifle Brigade: 10th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry ...
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [27]; 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")
As a result the unit became the 13th Middlesex (Queen's Westminster) Volunteer Rifle Corps and were attached to the King's Royal Rifle Corps as a Volunteer Battalion. [3] In 1886 the battalion established its headquarters at 58 Buckingham Gate, Westminster. [4] and by 1902 it was the largest volunteer rifle corps battalion in London. [5]
141st Machine Gun Company formed December 1915 (merged into 47th Battalion Machine Gun Corps February 1918) 1/17th Bn transferred to 140th (4th London) Brigade when infantry brigades on the Western Front were reduced to a three-battalion establishment in February 1918.
The 2nd Battalion was, like 1/QVR originally serving in a motorised reconnaissance role as part of the 2nd London Division, until, in December 1940, it was transferred to help create the 28th Armoured Brigade, then part of the 9th Armoured Division. The battalion was redesignated as the 8th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps the following ...