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While most of the 'Pals battalions' formed in 1914–15 by local initiative were based on single towns or professions, one of the last to be formed was the 21st (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, known as the 'Yeoman Rifles' because it was raised from farmers across a wide area of rural Northern England. [3]
20th (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (5th City) 20th Lancashire Battery, Royal Field Artillery; 21st (Reserve) Battalion, King's (Liverpool Regiment) 21st (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (6th City) 21st (Wigan) Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps; 21st Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps; 22 (West Lancashire) Corps Signal Regiment
The 2nd Cadet Battalion, the King's Royal Rifle Corps was formed in 1942 when a Home Guard instruction was issued ordering each Home Guard battalion to raise a cadet unit. Lieutenant-Colonel R.L. Clark of Queen Victoria's Rifles was given the task, and on 15 May 1942 the Queen Victoria's Rifles Cadet Corps was born.
The unit was disbanded in 1945, but reformed in The Rifle Brigade in January 1947 and transferred to The Army Air Corps in July as the 21st Special Air Service Regiment (Artists Rifles). [15] The number 21 SAS was chosen to perpetuate two disbanded wartime regiments, 2 SAS and 1 SAS.
13th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps; 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 ...
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 ]
20th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps (Railway Rifles) 21st (Finsbury Rifles) Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps; 22nd (Central London Rangers) Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps; 23rd (Inns of Court) Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps; 23rd (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (2nd Football) 23rd Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps
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)