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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 ...
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)
On graduation in September 1908 he was commissioned into the 1st Battalion the Royal Warwickshire Regiment as a second lieutenant, [25] and first saw overseas service later that year in India. [24] He was promoted to lieutenant in 1910, [ 26 ] and in 1912 became adjutant of the 1st Battalion of his regiment at Shorncliffe Army Camp .
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 23rd (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment was formed in June 1915 and became known as the 2nd Football Battalion. [1] The battalions fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 among others. Soldiers who fought in the 17th and 23rd Battalions included Second Lieutenant Walter Tull , who was possibly the first black infantry officer in the ...
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, Worcestershire Regiment (divisional pioneers, joined June 1918) 244th Machine Gun Company ( joined July 1917, moved to 40th Battalion M.G.C. March 1918 ) 40th Battalion M.G.C. ( formed March 1918, disbanded May 1918 )