Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 March 2001. Corrected and updated 10.03.2006
1st Battalion,
95th Regiment of Foot
1800-1816
1st Battalion,
The Rifle Brigade
1816-1966
1966-1992
1992-2007
4th Battalion,
The Rifles
2007-present
United Kingdom  
Note:This is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental page for full lineage and other information.
Colour Key
Lineage
War service
Overseas service
Home service
 
   
  1800.01 Corps of Riflemen
  1800 Spanish coast (3 coys)
  1801 Denmark: Copenhagen
  1802.12.25 95th Regiment of Foot
    England  
  1805.10.29 at sea  
  1805.11.17 Hanover: Cuxhaven  
  1805.11. North Germany occupied Bremen
  1806.02.15 at sea  
  1806.02 England
  1805.05.06 1st Battalion, 95th Regiment of Foot
renumbered on formation of 2nd Battalion
  1806 South America (5 coys)
  1807 Denmark
  1808.05.10 at sea  
  1808.05.17 Sweden: Goteborg (3 coys)  
  1808.07.03 at sea  
  1808.07.15 England  
  1808 Portugal
  1808 Peninsular war
  1809 England
  1810 Peninsular war
  1814 England
  1815 Waterloo campaign
  1815 France Army of Occupation
  1818 England
  1820 Ireland
  1825 Nova Scotia
  1829 New Brunswick
  1832 Nova Scotia
  1836 England
  1840 Malta
  1843 Ionian Islands: Corfu
  1846 Cape of Good Hope
  1846 Kaffir war
  1848 Boer war
  1850 England
  1852 Cape of Good Hope
  1852 Kaffir war
  1853 England
  1854 Crimea
  1856 England
  1861 Ireland
  1861 Canada
  1861.12 Trent Affair: Hamilton, Kingston, Montreal, Quebec
  1862 Canada  
  1866 Fenian raids
  1862 Canada  
  1870 England
  1876 Ireland
  1878 England
  1880 India
  1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade)
  1881. India: Bombay
  <1885> Belgaum
  1886 Burma
  1888 India: ?
  1888 Burma
  1889 India
  <1892> Rhaniket
  <1894> Calcutta
  1894 Hong Kong
  1896 Singapore
1897 England: Parkhurst
  1899.10.28 at sea ship: German
  1899.11.20 Cape: Cape Town
  1899.11 South Africa 4 Bde
  1902 England: Portsmouth
  1904 Malta
  1906 Ireland: Belfast
  1908 Ireland: Dublin
  1911 England: Colchester
  1914.08 France and Flanders 4 Div
  1919 England
  1919 Iraq 55 Bde, 18 Div
  1921.01.01 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
  1921 India: Cawnpore
  1925 Peshawar
  1928 Jullunder
  1933 Sudan
  1934 England: Gosport
  1937 England: Tidworth motor bn, Mobile Div
  1939.09 UK 1 Armd Div Sp Gp
  1940.05 France
  1940.05.26 captured by the Germans at Calais
  1940.10 re-formed in UK as a motor battalion
  1940 UK 1 Armd Div
  1941.11 Middle East
  1942.07 North Africa 7 Armd Div
  1943.07 Sicily
  1943 Italy
  1943.11
  1944.06 NW Europe
  1945 Germany
  1948 Germany: Minden  
  1951 Germany: Celle  
  1953 England: Bulford  
  1955.01 Kenya  
  1956.04 Malaya  
  1957.10 England: Tidworth  
  1958.11.07 3rd Green Jackets (The Rifle Brigade)
  1959 Germany: Wuppertal  
  1963 Cyprus  
  1965 Far East  
  1966.01.01 3rd Battalion, The Royal Green Jackets (The Rifle Brigade)
redesignated upon formation of "large" regiment from Green Jackets Brigade
  1968.01 Germany: Celle  
  1968.07.01 3rd Battalion, The Royal Green Jackets
  1970.06 (Northern Ireland)  
  1970.07 Germany: Celle  
  1970.09 reduced to Company at Tidworth
  1972 battalion reconstituted at Shoeburyness
  1972 England: Shoeburyness (19 Bde?)
  1972.08 (Northern Ireland)  
  197212 Shoeburyness (19 Bde?)
  1973.07 (Northern Ireland)  
  1973.11 Shoeburyness (19 Bde?)
  1974.07 (Northern Ireland)  
  1974.11 Shoeburyness (19 Bde?)
  1975.05 Berlin Berlin Bde
  1977.03 England: Caterham London Dist
  1977.05 (Northern Ireland)  
  1977.06 Caterham London Dist
  1978.03 Northern Ireland: Londonderry 8 Inf Bde
  1979.09 England: Oakington  
  1982.04 Germany: Celle 22 Armd Bde
  1984.10 (Northern Ireland)  
  1985.02 Celle 22 Armd Bde
  1987.03 England: Colchester 19 Inf Bde
  1989.01 Gibraltar  
  1990 Cyprus  
  1991.03 ?  
  1991.09 Northern Ireland: Omagh ? Inf Bde
  1992.07.25 2nd Battalion, The Royal Green Jackets
renumbered at Omagh upon disbandment of old 1st Battalion
    ?  
  1995.07 Northern Ireland: Holywood 39 Inf Bde
  1997.01 Germany: Paderborn 20 Armd Bde
  1998.05 (Bosnia)  
  1998.10 Germany: Paderborn 20 Armd Bde
  1999.10 (Kosovo)  
  2000.03 Germany: Paderborn 20 Armd Bde
2001.11 (Bosnia)  
  2002.05 Germany: Paderborn 20 Armd Bde
  2002.03 England: Warminster  
2004.03 Northern Ireland: Ballykinler (Abercorn B) HQ NI
  2005.09    
  2007.02 4th Battalion, The Rifles