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After the Napoleonic Wars, the regiment received a new title: first, in 1815, its name was changed to The Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps and then, in 1830, to the King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC). In 1858, the Rifle Depot at Winchester was made their headquarters. The regiment served in the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882.
There are a number of memorials to the Yeoman Rifles and their first commander. At Helmsley, where the battalion was raised, there is a marble plaque in the market square inscribed: 'To the Glorious Memory of our Comrades of the 21st (S) Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (Yeoman Rifles), who gave their lives in the Great War'.
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 ...
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 .
The 13th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, (13th KRRC) 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 and the Ancre, at Arras and Ypres, against the German spring offensive, and in the victorious Hundred Days Offensive.
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Includes commissioned officers of the King's Royal Rifle Corps regiment of the British Army, which was raised in 1755 as the 62nd, Royal American Regiment, renumbered two years later as 60th, Royal American Regiment and renamed as the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1830. The regiment became part of the Green Jackets Brigade in 1958 and was renamed ...
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) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps; 51st (Service ...