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The battalion is currently based in Dhekelia, British Forces Cyprus until 2025. 1 Rifles will return to Chepstow in the summer of 2025 to take on a new role as a Light Mechanised Battalion driving Foxhound vehicles. Towards the end of the decade, 1 Rifles will move to new build facilities at Caerwent Barracks. [7]
The Rifles is an infantry regiment of the British Army.Formed in 2007, it consists of four Regular battalions and three Reserve battalions. Each Regular battalion was formerly an individual battalion of one of the two large regiments of the Light Division (with the exception of the 1st Battalion, which is an amalgamation of two individual regiments).
The 1st Battalion, Mississippi Mounted Rifles was a unit in the Union Army during the American Civil War, [1] and was the only Union Mississippi unit created during the Civil War other than regiments of the United States Colored Troops [2]
Personnel of 1st Battalion, The Rifles on parade in Chepstow, 21 May 2009. A rifle regiment is a military unit consisting of a regiment of infantry troops armed with rifles and known as riflemen. While all infantry units in modern armies are typically armed with rifled weapons the term is still used to denote regiments that follow the distinct ...
The Regiment of Riflemen was a unit of the U.S. Army in the early nineteenth century. Unlike the regular US line infantry units with muskets and bright blue and white uniforms, this regiment was focused on specialist light infantry tactics, and were accordingly issued rifles and dark green and black uniforms to take better advantage of cover.
Men of the 9th Battalion, Rifle Brigade watch the destruction of a British supply dump at Hamra, El Alamein. The 9th Battalion was created in late May 1941 by re-naming the 1st Battalion, Tower Hamlets Rifles. [56] The battalion was part of the 2nd Support Group of the 2nd Armoured Division and then the 200th Guards Brigade until June 1942. [47]
The 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles was serving in Aden when the First World War broke out in August 1914. [1] The Ottoman Empire had not yet entered the war so the battalion was sent to England in September, where it prepared for a deployment to France, attached to the 25th Infantry Brigade, 8th Division.
The 1st Battalion, Tower Hamlets Rifles, was a Territorial Army (TA) unit of the British Army during World War II. It fought as a motor battalion in the Western Desert campaign, 1941–42, including the Battles of Mersa Brega, Gazala, Mersa Matruh and First Alamein.