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The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American Regiment during the phase of the Seven Years' War in North America known in the United States as 'The French and Indian War.'. Subsequently numbered the 60th Regiment of Foot, the regiment ...
1st Battalion, the Rangers, the King's Royal Rifle Corps - (later designated 9th Battalion, the King's Royal Rifle Corps (the Rangers)) [5] 102nd (Northumberland Hussars) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery - no equipment, used as infantry [6] [7] 106th (Lancashire Hussars) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery [8] - Lt. Col. AF Hely
During World War II the 'Greenjackets' (the King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC) and the Rifle Brigade, including their affiliated TA battalions) specialised in providing motorised infantry battalions to armoured brigades and armoured division support groups. The THR battalions were converted into motor battalions in 1940.
During the First World War, an affiliation was formed between the King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC) and the Rhodesia Regiment, [1] with a platoon of Rhodesians serving in the 2 KRRC. [2] In addition to the similar cap badge with a red backing, the affiliation with the KRRC led to many similarities in uniform as a rifle regiment [ 3 ] with private ...
The King's African Rifles (KAR) was a British Colonial Auxiliary Forces regiment raised from Britain's East African colonies in 1902. It primarily carried out internal security duties within these colonies along with military service elsewhere during the world wars and other conflicts, such as the Malayan Emergency and the Mau Mau uprising .
A Rhodesian Bren light machine gun team with the King's Royal Rifle Corps in the Western Desert, 1942 The decisive victory of Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery 's Eighth Army over the Germans and Italians at the Second Battle of El Alamein in October–November 1942 turned the tide of the North African war strongly in favour of the Allies ...
The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1966. The regiment was formed, as the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment), in 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms when the 57th (West Middlesex) and 77th (East Middlesex) Regiments of Foot were amalgamated with the county's militia and rifle volunteer units.
6th (Royal Flint Militia) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. 7th (Royal 2nd Middlesex Militia) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. 15th (Reserve) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. 18th Training Reserve Battalion. 51st (Graduated) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. 51st (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps.