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While most of the 'Pals battalions' formed in 1914–15 by local initiative were based on single towns or professions, one of the last to be formed was the 21st (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, known as the 'Yeoman Rifles' because it was raised from farmers across a wide area of rural Northern England. [3]
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.
13th (Service) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps (left April 1915) 13th (Service) Battalion, Rifle Brigade (left April 1915) 237th Machine Gun Company (joined 17 July 1917, transferred into 21st MG Battalion 24 February 1918) 21st Battalion Machine Gun Corps (formed 24 February 1918) Divisional Mounted Troops A Sqn, South Irish Horse ...
The unit was disbanded in 1945, but reformed in The Rifle Brigade in January 1947 and transferred to The Army Air Corps in July as the 21st Special Air Service Regiment (Artists Rifles). [15] The number 21 SAS was chosen to perpetuate two disbanded wartime regiments, 2 SAS and 1 SAS.
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 ...
20th (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (5th City) 20th Lancashire Battery, Royal Field Artillery; 21st (Reserve) Battalion, King's (Liverpool Regiment) 21st (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (6th City) 21st (Wigan) Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps; 21st Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps; 22 (West Lancashire) Corps Signal Regiment
15th Battalion, London Regiment (Civil Service Rifles), 47th Division, marching past the Lord Mayor of London, Colonel Sir Charles Wakefield, 11 June 1916 (IWM Q633). At the start of the First World War the battalion established its headquarters at Somerset House; [3] the commanding officer, Lt Col RG Hayes, refused to serve overseas, an example followed by most of the men of his battalion.
21st (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps (Yeoman Rifles) (disbanded March 1918) 20th (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry (Wearside) (transferred from 123rd Brigade March 1918) 124th Machine Gun Company (joined June 1916, moved to 41st Battalion Machine Gun Corps (M.G.C.) March 1918) 124th Trench Mortar Battery (joined June 1916)