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The 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade was formed in early January 1941 by the redesignation of the 2nd Battalion, London Rifle Brigade, spent most of its existence in the United Kingdom and took part in the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, as part of the 29th Armoured Brigade in the 11th Armoured Division, [54] and saw action in the North West ...
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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).
Pages in category "Rifle Brigade officers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 320 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
Pages in category "Battle honours of the Rifle Brigade" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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Transferred into The Rifle Brigade as a regular Army officer from the 9th Bn RB, which was the West Meath Militia, on 1 December 1897, as a 2/Lt; Joined the 3rd Bn RB in Umballah (India) in February 1898. Still a 2/Lt. 3RB marched to Rawalpindi arriving on 26 November 1898, having left Umballah on 24 October; 1899 – Still in Rawalpindi with 3RB.