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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".
Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) 0–9. 1st (Duke of Norfolk's Own) Cadet Battalion, Rifle Brigade; 6th (Royal Longford and Westmeath Militia) Battalion ...
The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) Captain W. N. Congreve At Colenso on the 15th December, 1899, the detachments serving the guns of the 14th and 66th Batteries, Royal Field Artillery, had all been either killed, wounded, or driven from their guns by Infantry fire at close range, and the guns were deserted.
1803–1816, the elite rifle armed 95th (Rifle) Regiment of Foot raised by Coote Manningham. In 1816 the 95th Regiment of Foot (Riflemen) became the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) 1816–1818, 96th Regiment of Foot (1803) - Formed 1803, retitled 95th Regiment of Foot in 1816. Disbanded as 95th in 1818
He was 30 years old, and a Company Sergeant-Major in the 2nd Battalion of The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
By 29 April 1853 he had become a second lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade. [4] In October 1853, the Crimean War broke out and he was present at the battles of Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and the siege and fall of Sebastapol. [2] Montgomery-Cuninghame served in the Crimean War as a lieutenant in the 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's ...
Acton was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) in the late 1930s [1] and was mentioned in dispatches for his service during the Second World War. [2] After the war, he became commander of 126th Infantry Brigade in October 1963, General Officer Commanding South West District in February 1967 and then Commander of Land ...
Bridgeman became 2nd lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) in 1914 and served during the First World War. [3] He was promoted to lieutenant in 1916, [3] and received the Military Cross in the next year.