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==Regimental journal==
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''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.
  
 
== References ==
 
== References ==
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Green_Jackets Royal Green Jackets] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rifles The Rifles] Wikipedia<br>
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Green_Jackets Royal Green Jackets] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rifles The Rifles] Wikipedia<br>
 
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080118040229/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/095RB.htm The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20080118035357/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/095rb-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20080103044500/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/095rb-2.htm 2nd Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20080103044505/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/095rb-3.htm 3rd Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071228105006/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/095rb-4.htm 4th Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site.
 
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080118040229/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/095RB.htm The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20080118035357/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/095rb-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20080103044500/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/095rb-2.htm 2nd Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20080103044505/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/095rb-3.htm 3rd Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071228105006/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/095rb-4.htm 4th Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site.
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*[http://www.rgjmuseum.co.uk/home.asp The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum]<br>
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*[http://www.rgjmuseum.co.uk/home.asp The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum] covers the [[43rd Regiment of Foot|43rd]], [[52nd Regiment of Foot|52nd]] and [[60th Regiment of Foot| 60th]] Regiments and the Rifle Brigade <br>
 
*[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] 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]
 
*[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] 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]
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===Historical books online===
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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofriflebr00cope#page/n7/mode/2up ''The History of the Rifle Brigade (the Prince Consort's Own) formerly the 95th''] by Sir William H. Cope 1877 [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofriflebr00cope#page/n409/mode/2up Indian Service 1857], page 347 Archive.org
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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadecen00boylgoog#page/n2/mode/2up ''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
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*''The Rifle Brigade Chronicle'' for
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**[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr00owngoog#page/n9/mode/2up 1890]  1891
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***[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr00owngoog#page/n77/mode/2up 1st Battalion in Burma and India]
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***[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr00owngoog#page/n91/mode/2up 3rd Battalion in India]
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***[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr00owngoog#page/n95/mode/2up 4th Battalion returns from Burma to England]
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**[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr01owngoog#page/n6/mode/2up  1895 (Sixth Year)] 1896
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***[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr01owngoog#page/n66/mode/2up "The 4th Battalion in Burma 1888-89"]
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***[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr01owngoog#page/n210/mode/2up 3rd Battalion in Rawal Pindi]
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**[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr02owngoog#page/n2/mode/2up  1897 (Eighth Year )] 1898
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***[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr02owngoog#page/n130/mode/2up "The Tochi Valley Expedition 1897"]
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***[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr02owngoog#page/n282/mode/2up 3rd Battalion Record] includes a list of  details of 112 deaths during the year, mostly on the Tochi Valley Expedition
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***[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr02owngoog#page/n350/mode/2up 3rd Battalion letter from Umballa]
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**[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr04owngoog#page/n5/mode/2up 1901 (Twelfth Year)] 1902
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***[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr04owngoog#page/n107/mode/2up 3rd Battalion letter from Meerut]
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**[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr03owngoog#page/n6/mode/2up 1904 (Fifteenth Year)] 1905
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***[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr03owngoog#page/n96/mode/2up 'The 3rd Battalion at the Coronation Durbar,  Delhi, 1902-03"]
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***[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr03owngoog#page/n182/mode/2up 3rd Battalion letters from Meerut and Landour]
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**[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr05owngoog#page/n8/mode/2up  1905 (Sixteenth Year)] 1906. All years from Archive.org
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[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]

Revision as of 11:50, 5 October 2011

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

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.

References

  1. ↑ 2nd Battalion 95th Rifle Regiment of Foot Re-enactment Group Forum


External Links

Historical books online

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