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*'''1888''' [[Burma]]
*'''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==
*[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>
*[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===
