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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 battalion was redesignated the 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) (London Rifle Brigade) on 17 January 1941 and fought in North-West Europe from June 1944 until May 1945. [9] On 1 April 1947 it absorbed the duplicate 8th Battalion and was renamed the London Rifle Brigade, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own).
9th Rifle Brigade was reformed on 20 February 1944 by amalgamating the cadre at Retford with 2nd Motor Training Bn, Rifle Brigade. This was converted into 86 Primary Training Wing on 20 March 1944 and passed into suspended animation once more when the personnel were transferred to 27th Greenjackets Holding Bn on 29 November 1945.
10th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Hackney) was a battalion of the London Regiment, an all-Territorial Force regiment in the British Army.The battalion existed between 1912 and 1955 and after World War I was re-affiliated to the Rifle Brigade, and later to the Royal Berkshire Regiment and Royal Artillery.
The 13th (Service) Battalion, Rifle Brigade, (13th RB) 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 where it was half-destroyed in its first attack, and later at the Ancre , at Arras and Ypres , against the German ...
The whole of 6th Armoured Division's infantry brigade (1st Guards Bde) was sent up to assault the town, but 2nd Lothians and Border Horse managed to force their way through along the shore. 10th Rifle Brigade drove through cheering French civilians to the palace of the Bey of Tunis, whose palace guard formally surrendered to the battalion ...
The memorial was unveiled on 25 July 1925 by the Colonel-in-Chief of The Rifle Brigade, Field Marshal Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and dedicated by the Chaplain-General to the Forces, Reverend Alfred Jarvis. The unveiling ceremony was accompanied by an honour guard from the 2nd Battalion, and another of veteran riflemen.
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).