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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 ...
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")
11th Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry (Frontier Force) 18th King Edward's Own Cavalry; 2nd Support Group [131] 1st Battalion, Tower Hamlets Rifles, redesignated as 9th Battalion, Rifle Brigade (Tower Hamlets Rifles) from 5 January 1941 [131] [132] 1st Company, Free French 1st Motor Marine Infantry Battalion (attached) [133]
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 ...
The 13th (Service) Battalion, Rifle Brigade, (13th RB) was an infantry unit recruited as part of 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I. It served on the Western Front from July 1915 until the Armistice , seeing action at the Somme where it was half-destroyed in its first attack, and later at the Ancre , at Arras and Ypres , against the German ...
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]