Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) This page summarises records created by this Organisation The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to … British regimental number research.

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I would be interested to see what you have found and could then apply your research to my own to see if we can get any closer. These books provide, in many cases, the only record of men who served with the Rifle Brigade, certainly up until 1914. This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. Dec 1911 2/RB stationed at Fort William, Calcutta. (d.12th June 1942), Lee Albert Edward. Note though that these numbers are only for regular Regimental number series.

Regimental numbering sequences between 1881 and 1918. Rflmn (d.10th Jun 1944), Ellison Haydn O. Rflmn. The Dongola carried the Berkshires from India. This is an index compiled from papers at The National Archives. Bear in mind though that the same number also crops up for the regular battalions in September 1894 and again in 1878. Add to basket. The Rifle Brigade can trace its history back to 1800 When Colonel Coote Manningham raised an ‘experimental corps of riflemen’ to provide sharpshooters, scouts and skirmishers to fight in North America. The Rifle Brigade Chronicle was published annually from 1891, for the year 1890, and is available at the British Library.

The Corps differed in several regards from the line infantry of the British Army and most significantly were armed with the formidable Baker rifle. This is misleading. privacy policy, GB/NNAF/C48854 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O38302 ). The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers and this website is funded by donations from our visitors. Records of Rifle Brigade from other sources. I guessing 1915 enlistment can you pin point closer. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois memorial in France. (d.6th April 1945). All serving officers are named, as well as colour sergeants and often other senior NCOs and some riflemen.

Add photographs. 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. I'd therefore plump for a Sept 1914 enlistment but I'm afraid I can't suggest which battalion - or which number prefix, for that matter - he'd have been allocated.Paul, Hi Paulnot sure if this is the best place to post this query as it most probably refers to the Territorial battalions of the Rifle BrigadeI am currently researching a soldier from the Rifle Brigade but have found nothing that indicates his battalion. This page was last edited on 9 January 2020, at 23:33.

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