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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 17th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles), was a unit of Britain's Territorial Force formed in 1908 from Volunteer corps dating back to 1859. It saw considerable service on the Western Front , at Salonika and in Palestine during the First World War .
There were two cadet battalions: 1st Cadet Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps and Queen Victoria's Rifles Cadet Corps (re-titled the 2nd Cadet Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1945). Over the years, the formation of the cadet battalions was changed regularly, due to the changes to do with rules and the commanding officer. [43]
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 ...
I Corps, commanded by Lieutenant-General Douglas Haig. 1st Division . 1st Guards Brigade 1st Coldstream Guards 1st Scots Guards 1st Black Watch 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers 2nd Infantry Brigade 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1st Northamptonshire Regiment 2nd Kings Royal Rifle Corps 3rd Infantry Brigade
The 17th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (Empire), (17th RF) was a 'Pals battalion' recruited as part of 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I.It served with the 2nd Division on the Western Front from November 1915 until the Armistice, seeing action on the Somme and the Ancre, at Arras and Cambrai (where one of its officers won the Victoria Cross), against the German spring offensive, and in ...
16th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (1 December 1940; disbanded 18 September 1942) [21] 17th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (17 December 1940; to 140 Brigade 2 October 1942) [21] [22] 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers (from 140 Bde 2 October 1942; became 2nd Royal Irish Fusiliers 2 May 1944; to 165th Brigade 18 July 1944) [22] [23] [24]
6th (Reserve) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers; 6th (Royal East Middlesex Militia) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment; 7th (Royal 2nd Middlesex Militia) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps; 7th (Royal South Middlesex Militia) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers; 9th (Marylebone and West Middlesex) Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps; 9th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment