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Men of the 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade take cover as a mortar bomb explodes in a stream in the village of Nieuwstadt, north of Sittard, the Netherlands, 3 January 1945. The 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade was in England on the outbreak of the Second World War, originally part of the 1st Support Group, part of the 1st Armoured Division. [47]
The Prince Albert Volunteers or Prince Albert Rifles were organized in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, North-West Territories, for service in the Canadian Militia during the North-West Rebellion. "Gentleman" Joe McKay , an Anglo-Métis scout of the North-West Mounted Police was sent to Prince Albert from Fort Carlton to enlist about 20 men as ...
Formally, the regiment became the 8th (Leitrim Militia) Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) on 1 July 1881. [4] [5] [33] The Rifle Brigade Depot was at Peninsula Barracks, Winchester, but the militia battalions retained their own headquarters. [33] However, by the late 1880s the 8th Battalion was under threat.
11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) (until 14 April) 1st Royal Tank Regiment (from 10 April) 3rd The King's Own Hussars (from 13 October) 7th Support Group (formed 22 January) M Battery, 3rd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery (anti-tank) C Battery, 4th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery; 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps; 2nd Battalion, Rifle ...
Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Did not form any locally raised battalions. [103] Royal Munster Fusiliers: Did not form any locally raised battalions. [104] Royal Dublin Fusiliers: Did not form any locally raised battalions. [105] Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) 16th (Service) St. Pancras Borough of St Pancras, 2 May 1915
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [26]; 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")
The badge was the Prince of Wales's feathers. [8] One source from the long period of disembodiment 1816–52 suggests that the regiment bore yellow facings, [29] but there is no corroboration for this. When the regiment became a rifle corps in 1854 the uniform changed to Rifle green with scarlet facings appropriate to a 'Royal' rifle regiment ...
Being the first German military marching band of its kind, it also honors the German first generation riflemen of the final decades of the 18th and the first decades of the 19th century who served with their English, Scottish and Irish servicemen in the ranks of both the King's Royal Rifle Corps and the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own).