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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.
Over succeeding weeks the 2/17th alternated in the L1 sector of the line, in support and in reserve with the 2/19th Londons.The 60th Division adopted coloured flashes painted on each side of the steel helmet to aid recognition: 180th Bde used a triangle, which was black in the case of the 2/17th Bn. [85] [86] During the summer the brigade was ...
The 2nd Cadet Battalion, the King's Royal Rifle Corps was formed in 1942 when a Home Guard instruction was issued ordering each Home Guard battalion to raise a cadet unit. Lieutenant-Colonel R.L. Clark of Queen Victoria's Rifles was given the task, and on 15 May 1942 the Queen Victoria's Rifles Cadet Corps was born.
141st Machine Gun Company formed December 1915 (merged into 47th Battalion Machine Gun Corps February 1918) 1/17th Bn transferred to 140th (4th London) Brigade when infantry brigades on the Western Front were reduced to a three-battalion establishment in February 1918.
8th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps: 5th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry: 6th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Lt.Inf. 7th Battalion, Rifle Brigade: 9th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps: 6th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Lt.Inf. 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade: 9th Battalion, Rifle Brigade: 10th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry ...
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 ...
On 1 January 1917 105th Provisional Bn was absorbed into 107th Provisional Battalion (formed from the Home Service men of the 17th (Poplar & Stepney Rifles), 18th (London Irish Rifles) and 21st (1st Surrey Rifles) Bns, London Regiment to become 31st (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment, in 226th Mixed Bde, attached to 71st Division ...
The 99th Brigade was sent to France in November 1915 as part of 33rd Division, but was quickly transferred to the 2nd Division in exchange for a veteran brigade of regular and territorial troops. [1] Many of its units were rotated out to other brigades at this point, and by the end of 1915 it consisted of: 17th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (Empire)