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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 ...
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.
11th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General A. G. Hunter-Weston) 1st Battalion, Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry) 1st Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment; 1st Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment; 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) 12th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General H. F. M. Wilson)
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 Eleventh At War: Being The Story Of The XIth Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) Through The Years 1934-1945. Michael Joseph. Erskine, David (2001) [1956]. The Scots Guards 1919-1955. DNaval & Military Press Ltd. ISBN 1-84342-061-9. Hastings, Major R.H.W.S. (1950). The Rifle Brigade In The Second World War 1939-1945. Gale & Polden.
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 ...