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Lieutenant-Colonel James Fullarton, C.B., K. H. (17 December 1782, Isle of Arran - 8 March 1834, Halifax, Nova Scotia) was a soldier who fought in the Kandyan Wars (1803-1807). During the Peninsular War he fought in the Battle of Corunna (1809) and the Battle of Barrosa (1811).
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[8] 13th (Service) Battalion, Rifle Brigade, was reduced to a cadre in France and then returned to the UK under Lt-Col Mostyn-Owen on 5 May. It was disbanded on 15 May 1919 at Barrow-in-Furness . [ 3 ] [ 118 ] [ 119 ] Its total casualties during its service on the Western Front were 37 officers and 731 ORs killed or died of wounds, 2148 ORs ...
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.
While the rest of 2nd Division attacked at the Battle of Guillemont on 30–31 July, 22nd RF was back in Delville Wood, where Lt-Col Barker reorganised the defences to emphasise firepower (12 Lewis Guns of the battalion and 8 Vickers guns of 99th Brigade Machine Gun Company). During the battalion's four-day tour of duty the wood was constantly ...
When the RLR was assembled for training in 1858 it found that the uniforms supplied were for other rifle militia regiments, and Lt-Col Musters declined to clothe his men until uniforms with the correct red facings arrived. When it became a battalion of the Rifle Brigade in 1881, the RLM adopted the black facings and insignia of that regiment.
On 11 September the companies of 10th RF were relieved and concentrated again at billets in Verdrel. Next day Lt-Col White left the battalion on promotion to command a brigade. He was succeeded by Maj Rice of the Scottish Horse, who had previously been attached to 13th RF. On 17 September 10th RF returned to Bully-Grenay and 111th Bde, which ...
It became 10th Bn Rifle Brigade (Tower Hamlets Rifles) (10th RB) [b] on 15 January 1941 (when 1st THR also became 9th Rifle Brigade). [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 10 ] 26th Armoured Bde joined 6th Armoured Division on 9 November, and the battalion remained with this formation for the rest of its service.