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The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army formed in January 1800 as the "Experimental Corps of Riflemen" to provide sharpshooters, scouts, and skirmishers. They were soon renamed the "Rifle Corps".
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 ...
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 British and Commonwealth force were drawn mainly from the 7th Armoured Division's, 7th Armoured Brigade and 7th Support Group and from the independent 22nd Guards Brigade. They were organised into three groups: Coast Group 2nd battalion The Rifle Brigade (minus one company) Mortar support, 3rd battalion Coldstream Guards [1]
Soldiers of the Rifle Brigade wearing the shako, c. 1857. The Albert shako (also known as the Albert pot) [1] was an item of headgear worn in the British Army between 1844 and 1855. It was a development of the Albert hat proposed by Prince Albert in 1843 as a replacement for the bell-top shako then in use.
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]
13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot 1842–1881 [37] [38] 1685 Raised 20 June 1685 as the Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot. [37] 1881: Prince Albert's Light Infantry (Somersetshire Regiment) The Rifles: 14: 14th Regiment of Foot 1751–1782. 14th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot 1782–1809 [39]
1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps; 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade; 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards (attached) French Motor Marine Company (attached) Divisional Troops [g] Divisional signals, Royal Corps of Signals; 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) (from 10 April) D Squadron, No. 2 Armoured Car Company RAF (from October, attached to 11th ...