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*'''1888''' [[Burma]]
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*'''1913''' [[Dagshai]]
*'''1913''' [[Dagshai]]
''Battalions of the Territorial Force in WW1''
The 18th, 23rd and 24th went to India. The 21st went to India via Egypt<ref>[http://www.1914-1918.net/rb.htm The Rifle Brigade] 1914-1918.net</ref>
The 18th came into being about 11/11/15. Their time overseas was spent in Rangoon, based in Sale Barracks, with detachments at Port Blair, in the Andaman Islands, guarding the convict settlement there. Detachments went on escort duty to Basra (and qualified for The Victory Medal), and were employed on the minesweepers patrol at Bombay.<ref>stiletto_33853 [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=103704&hl= London Rifle in Burma?] ''Great War Forum'' 10 August 2008 et al. and stiletto_33853 [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=53333 18th Rifle Brigade] ''Great War Forum'' 30 May 2006 et al. Retrieved 8 December 2014</ref>


==Regimental journal==
==Regimental journal==
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*[http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1JgnPJ Photograph of 2nd Battalion “B” Company’s Football Team. Winners of the Minerva Challenge Cup, Calcutta 1911]<ref> Posted in a thread from [http://2nd95thrifles.myfastforum.org/archive/2nd-battalion-rifle-brigade__o_t__t_371.html 2nd Battalion 95th Rifle Regiment of Foot Re-enactment Group Forum]</ref>
*[http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1JgnPJ Photograph of 2nd Battalion “B” Company’s Football Team. Winners of the Minerva Challenge Cup, Calcutta 1911]<ref> Posted in a thread from [http://2nd95thrifles.myfastforum.org/archive/2nd-battalion-rifle-brigade__o_t__t_371.html 2nd Battalion 95th Rifle Regiment of Foot Re-enactment Group Forum]</ref>
*[http://www.calkin.co.uk/arthur_dagshi2_1913.html Photograph: Arthur Calkin in Dagshai, India 1913], with a group of soldiers outside the barracks,  and a [http://www.calkin.co.uk/arthur_dagshi_1913.html second photograph]  Family website. He was in the 4th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade<ref> "In the two photos the soldier is very definitely in the Rifle Brigade. In the first image the badges are clear and in the second, on the horse, the black buttons corroborate” Email to User:Maureene dated 11 March 2014</ref>
*[http://www.calkin.co.uk/arthur_dagshi2_1913.html Photograph: Arthur Calkin in Dagshai, India 1913], with a group of soldiers outside the barracks,  and a [http://www.calkin.co.uk/arthur_dagshi_1913.html second photograph]  Family website. He was in the 4th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade<ref> "In the two photos the soldier is very definitely in the Rifle Brigade. In the first image the badges are clear and in the second, on the horse, the black buttons corroborate” Email to User:Maureene dated 11 March 2014</ref>
*[https://greatwarlondon.wordpress.com/tag/rifle-brigade/  DEG Quelch, far from Flanders] He was in the 18th (London) Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, based at Table Island, where there was a wireless station, near the Cocos Islands. "Great War London"


===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===

Revision as of 11:40, 8 December 2014

Chronology

  • 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.

Service in British India

1st Battalion

2nd Battalion

A thread from the 2nd Battalion 95th Rifles Forum[1] provides the following details

  • Dec 1911 2/RB stationed at Fort William, Calcutta.
  • Jan 1912 2/RB form guard of honour for King's departure from Calcutta.
  • Jan 1912, 2/RB trained to Pindi
  • Feb 1912 Brigade training and practice in hill Warfare in Baracao, "some 15 miles towards Murree".
  • Oct 1912 2/RB march to Rawal Pindi.
  • 1913, Kuldana, Murree and Rawal Pindi. Kuldana to West ridge Nov 1913
  • 1914 In Murree hills, expected to sail for England Oct 29 in Dongola. Telegram to embark arrives Aug 26. Aug 29 all baggage in Pindi. Sept 02, left Kuldana, Sept 06, arrived Pindi. Trained to Bombay, arrive Sept 08. Embarked S.S. Somali, same day. Landed Liverpool Oct 22 1914. The Dongola carried the Berkshires from India.

3rd Battalion

4th Battalion

Battalions of the Territorial Force in WW1

The 18th, 23rd and 24th went to India. The 21st went to India via Egypt[2]

The 18th came into being about 11/11/15. Their time overseas was spent in Rangoon, based in Sale Barracks, with detachments at Port Blair, in the Andaman Islands, guarding the convict settlement there. Detachments went on escort duty to Basra (and qualified for The Victory Medal), and were employed on the minesweepers patrol at Bombay.[3]

Regimental journal

The Rifle Brigade Chronicle was published annually from 1891, for the year 1890, and is available at the British Library. Seven editions are available to read online, refer below.

External Links

Historical books online

For those in North America and some other countries, editions for years up to 1920 are available on Google Books and the Hathi Trust Digital Library

References

  1. ↑ 2nd Battalion 95th Rifle Regiment of Foot Re-enactment Group Forum
  2. ↑ The Rifle Brigade 1914-1918.net
  3. ↑ stiletto_33853 London Rifle in Burma? Great War Forum 10 August 2008 et al. and stiletto_33853 18th Rifle Brigade Great War Forum 30 May 2006 et al. Retrieved 8 December 2014
  4. ↑ Posted in a thread from 2nd Battalion 95th Rifle Regiment of Foot Re-enactment Group Forum
  5. ↑ "In the two photos the soldier is very definitely in the Rifle Brigade. In the first image the badges are clear and in the second, on the horse, the black buttons corroborate” Email to User:Maureene dated 11 March 2014

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