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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 (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 ...
17th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps (British Empire League) (left 16 August 1918) 16th (Service) Battalion, Rifle Brigade (St Pancras) (left August 1918) 117th Machine Gun Company (formed 18 May 1916, moved to 39th Battalion, M.G.C. 14 March 1918)
7th (Service) Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment) (disbanded February 1918) 6th (Service) Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment (from March 1915) 7th (Service) Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment (until March 1915) 51st Brigade. 7th (Service) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regimeht; 7th (Service) Battalion, Border Regiment
The 17th (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment was an infantry battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, part of the British Army, which was formed as a Pals battalion during the Great War. The core of the battalion was a group of professional footballers, which was the reason for its most commonly used name, The Football Battalion (also the ...
19th (Service) Battalion, King's (Liverpool Regiment) (3rd City), formed at Liverpool, 29 August 1914 by Lord Derby; absorbed into 14th (Service) Battalion, King's (Liverpool Regiment) 31 July 1918 20th (Service) Battalion, King's (Liverpool Regiment) (4th City), formed at Liverpool, 16 October 1914 by Lord Derby; disbanded in France 16 ...
The 17th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers was one of the numerous Pals Battalions formed in the North East of England on Kitchener's call for men during the early parts of the First World War. [1] The battalion was raised by the North Eastern Railway (NER) and was the only pals battalions to be raised by a single company.
The Brigade served with the 5th Infantry Division through most of the Second World War. [5] On 5 May 1942 it was part of Force 121 in the Battle of Madagascar. [5] After this, the 17th Infantry Brigade served in the Allied invasion of Sicily with the British Eighth Army and the Italian Campaign, before taking part in the closing stages of the campaign in Germany.