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Independent rifle coys: 1860: Halifax Volunteer Bn: 1869: Halifax Volunteer Bn of Rifles: 1869: 63rd The Halifax Volunteer Bn of Rifles: 1870: 63rd The Halifax Bn of Rifles: 1885: Halifax Provisional Bn: 1885: Disbanded: 1900: 63rd Regt "Halifax Rifles" 1914: 40th Bn, CEF: 1917: Absorbed by 26th Reserve Bn, CEF: 1920: 1st Bn (40th Bn, CEF), The ...
The battalion was under command of Lieutenant-Colonel James J. Bremner and consisted of 350 soldiers made up three companies from the Princess Louise Fusiliers, three companies of the 63rd Halifax Rifles (formerly the Halifax Volunteer Battalion), and two companies of the 1st "Halifax" Brigade of Garrison Artillery, with 32 officers. The ...
The Halifax Volunteer Battalion (1860–1868) included six companies that were raised in present-day Halifax Regional Municipality.The six companies included the Scottish Rifles, Chebucto Grays, Mayflower Rifles, Halifax Rifles, Irish Volunteers and Dartmouth Rifles which were all raised in the fall of 1859. [1]
The regiment's headquarters (now an area headquarters of the Yorkshire Regiment) and archives are at Wellesley Park in Halifax. In 1860 Edward Akroyd paid for and recruited the 4th Yorkshire West Riding (Halifax) Rifle Volunteers, absorbing the 7th battalion formed in 1959. In 1883 the title of the regiment changed to the First Volunteer ...
Edward Akroyd became a Lieutenant Colonel of the 4th Yorkshire West Riding (Halifax) Rifle Volunteers in 1861, and served as a member of Parliament. Akroyd's kindness was well known, and many had cause to be grateful to him. They felt his problems as keenly as their own when some of his overseas investments failed and he suffered great ...
Royal Nova Scotia Volunteers: 1775–1783: King's Orange Rangers: 1776–1783: 1st Field Artillery: from 1791: Royal Nova Scotia: 1793–1802: Nova Scotia Fencibles: 1803–1816: Halifax Rifles: from 1860: Princess Louise Fusiliers: from 1867: 78th Highland: 1869–1871: Cape Breton Highlanders: from 1871: Nova Scotia Rifles: 1914–1919: No. 2 ...
A soldier from the Rifle Volunteers in Iraq, 2004. In 1999 a number of individuals were mobilised from The Rifle Volunteers to join 2nd Battalion The Royal Green Jackets on their Kosovo tour returning in early 2000. [7] The first major deployment from The Rifle Volunteers was in November 2003 when 55 soldiers were deployed to the Kabul ...
About the same time in the capital of Richmond, Captain James R. West, Sheriff of Halifax County, arrived with his Halifax Rifles seeking orders from the confederate leaders. [10] They would muster in on the 11th however expedience would not provide them a place until the early part of the following month and as such they sat idle.