The Rifle Brigade: Difference between revisions

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1800 raised as an Experimental Corps of Riflemen by Colonel Coote-Manningham and Lt-Col the Hon. William Stewart
1802 redesignated the 95th Regiment of Foot, the 95th Rifles
1816 became The Rifle Brigade
1823 became The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade
1958 renamed the 3rd Green Jackets Regiment of the Green Jackets Brigade.
1966 amalgamated to become 3rd Battalion Royal Green Jackets Regiment
2007 became the 4th Battalion of The Rifles.

1st Battalion

2nd Battalion

3rd Battalion

4th Battalion

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 == Service in British India ==
+''1st Battalion''
+*'''1880''' India
+*'''1881''' [[Bombay]]
+*'''1885''' [[Jhansi]]
+*'''1888''' [[Burma]]
+*'''1921''' [[Cawnpore]]
+*'''1925''' [[Peshawar]]
+*'''1925''' Jullunder
+''2nd Battalion''
+*'''1857''' [[Indian Mutiny]]
+*'''1905''' Chaubattia
+*'''1908''' [[Calcutta]]
+*'''1911''' [[Rawalpindi]]
+*'''1913''' Kuldana
+''3rd Battalion''
+*'''1857''' [[Indian Mutiny]]
+*'''1864''' [[Mohmand Expedition 1863-64|Mohmand Expedition]]
+*'''1889''' India
+*'''1892'''  Jullunder
+*'''1894''' [[Peshawar]]
+*'''1897''' Kuldana
+*'''1897''' [[Tochi Valley Expedition 1897-98|Tochi Valley Expedition]]
+*'''1901''' [[Meerut]]
 ''4th Battalion''
 *'''1873''' India