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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]
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]
15th Middlesex (The Customs and Docks) Rifle Volunteer Corps; 16th (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Public Schools) 17th (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (1st Football) 18th (Harrow Rifles) Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps; 18th (Paddington Rifles) Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps; 19th (Bloomsbury) 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)
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 .
Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught, inspecting men of the 2nd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps at Le Buissiere, near Bruay, 1 July 1918. The 3rd Battalion landed at Le Havre as part of the 80th Brigade in the 27th Division in December 1914 for service on the Western Front [22] and saw action at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915. [25]
21st Battalion may refer to: 21st Battalion (Australia), a World War I ANZAC battalion; 2/21st Battalion (Australia), a World War II Australian infantry battalion; 21st Battalion (New Zealand), a World War II New Zealand infantry battalion; 21st Battalion (Eastern Ontario), CEF, a World War I battalion that formed part of the Canadian Corps