The Rifle Brigade

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

• 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

A thread from the 2nd Battalion 95th Rifles Forum 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

• 1857 Indian Mutiny
• 1864 Mohmand Expedition
• 1889 India
• 1892 Jullunder
• 1894 Peshawar
• 1897 Kuldana
• 1897 Tochi Valley Expedition
• 1901 Meerut

4th Battalion

• 1873 India
• 1878 Afghanistan
• 1881 North West Frontier
• 1885 Jhansi
• 1885 Calcutta
• 1888 Dinapore
• 1888 Burma
• 1913 Dagshai

Regimental journal

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

External Links

• The Rifle Brigade Wikipedia
  Green Jackets Brigade Wikipedia
  
• Royal Green Jackets Wikipedia
  The Rifles Wikipedia
  
• The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Battalion, 4th Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
• The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum covers the 43rd, 52nd and 60th Regiments and the Rifle Brigade
  • Photographs: 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade in India in 1921
• Photograph of 2nd Battalion “B” Company’s Football Team. Winners of the Minerva Challenge Cup, Calcutta 1911 posted in a thread from 2nd Battalion 95th Rifle Regiment of Foot Re-enactment Group Forum
• Photograph: Arthur Calkin in Dagshai, India 1913, with a group of soldiers outside the barracks, and a second photograph Family website. He was in the 4th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade

Historical books online

• The History of the Rifle Brigade (the Prince Consort's Own) formerly the 95th by Sir William H. Cope 1877 Indian Service 1857, page 347 Archive.org
• "Record of the services of the Rifle Brigade, in India in 1857 and 1858" Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, 1871 Part 3, pages 554-560 and 1872 Part 1, page 59-63 Google Books and Hathi Trust Digital Library.
• The Rifle Brigade Century: An Alphabetical List of the Officers of the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own) (Regular Battalions) from 1800 to 1905 1905 Archive.org
• The Rifle Brigade Chronicle for
  • 1890 1891
    • 1st Battalion in Burma and India
    • 3rd Battalion in India
    • 4th Battalion returns from Burma to England
  • 1895 (Sixth Year) 1896
    • "The 4th Battalion in Burma 1888-89"
    • 3rd Battalion in Rawal Pindi
  • 1897 (Eighth Year ) 1898
    • "The Tochi Valley Expedition 1897"
    • 3rd Battalion Record includes a list of details of 112 deaths during the year, mostly on the Tochi Valley Expedition
    • 3rd Battalion letter from Umballa
  • 1901 (Twelfth Year) 1902
    • 3rd Battalion letter from Meerut
  • 1902 (Thirteenth Year) 1903
    • Khud Climbing at Kailana (3rd Battalion)
    • 3rd Battalion letter from Meerut
  • 1904 (Fifteenth Year) 1905
    • 'The 3rd Battalion at the Coronation Durbar, Delhi, 1902-03"
    • 3rd Battalion letters from Meerut and Landour
  • 1905 (Sixteenth Year) 1906. All years from Archive.org