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Men of the 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade take cover as a mortar bomb explodes in a stream in the village of Nieuwstadt, north of Sittard, the Netherlands, 3 January 1945. The 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade was in England on the outbreak of the Second World War, originally part of the 1st Support Group, part of the 1st Armoured Division. [47]
5th Battalion, 60th Regiment of Foot (Rifles) (604) 2nd Battalion, 95th Rifles(4 companies) (456) 7th Brigade Brig Gen Robert Anstruther (2,703 total) 2nd Battalion, 9th Regiment of Foot (633) 2nd Battalion, 43rd Light Infantry (721) 2nd Battalion, 52nd Light Infantry (654) 2nd Battalion, 97th Regiment of Foot (695) 8th Brigade
The Battle of An Ninh took place from 18–19 September 1965 between elements of the Vietcong (VC) 94th and 95th Battalions, 2nd Regiment, 3rd Division and the U.S. 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) Rangers.
North Vietnam: Commanders and leaders; Brig. Willard Pearson Col. James S. Timothy Maj. David Hackworth: Units involved; 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division 2nd Marine Brigade: 95th Regiment, 5th Division: Casualties and losses; 55 killed 45 killed: US body count: 346 killed 33 captured
1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division: 4th Battalion, 95th Regiment: Casualties and losses; 42 killed 2 missing: ... Two rifle companies were deployed towards Thanh ...
Following the completion of Operation Greeley, in September 1967 General William B. Rosson instructed the commander of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, Brigadier General Leo H. Schweiter, to locate and destroy the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) 95th Regiment, which was believed to be located in a base area known as “The Hub” in the foothills northwest of Tuy Hòa in Phú Yên Province.
From 8 June to 16 September 1973 the division fought the Battle of Trung Nghia against the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) 23rd Division. Prisoners captured by the ARVN at Trung Nghia stated that they had suffered losses of 30 percent on the whole, and that in some units with considerable sickness casualty rates were as high as 60 ...
Sir John Kincaid (1787 – 1862) was an officer of the British 95th Regiment, The Rifle Brigade who wrote a first hand account of his service under Wellington through the Peninsula War and the Battle of Waterloo. A British Rifleman of the Napoleonic Era