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created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated
22.07.2006
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Queen Victoria's Rifles
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United
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Note:
This
is a battalion history of the part-time reserves, which are normally
liable for full-time active service only in an emergency. See the
main regimental page(s) as linked below for more information.
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1803 |
Duke of Cumberland's
Sharpshooters |
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1814 |
maintained
without pay as a rifle club |
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1835 |
Royal Victoria
Rifle Club |
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1853.01.04 |
Victoria Rifles
reconstituted as a volunteer corps with HQ at
Kilburn |
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1859.09.16 |
1st Middlesex
Rifle Volunteer Corps
confirmed as part of the Volunteer Force |
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1860.03 |
1st Middlesex
(Victoria) Rifle Volunteer Corps |
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1863 |
18th
Middlesex RVC and 47th Middlesex
RVC (raised 1862 at Stanmore) attached for drill and
administration |
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1865 |
47th
Middlesex RVC disbanded |
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1866 |
cadet
formed and affiliated (disbanded 1898) |
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1867 |
HQ
moved to St. John's Wood |
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1870 |
attached
to 11th Middlesex RVC for drill and administration;
18th Middlesex
RVC transferred to 9th
Middlesex RVC |
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1881.07.01 |
[4th] Volunteer
Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle
Corps |
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1889 |
battalion
came within boundaries of new County of London, formed from parts
of Middlesex, Kent and Surrey |
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1891.12 |
1st Middlesex
(Victoria) Volunteer Rifle Corps |
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1892 |
HQ
moved to Davies Street, Westminster |
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1892.06.01 |
1st Middlesex
(Victoria and St. George's) Volunteer Rifle Corps
absorbed 6th
Middlesex (St. George's) VRC, and ranked as 1st VB, The
King's Royal Rifle Corps |
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1908.04.01 |
9th (County
of London) Battalion, The
London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
transferred to T.F. with HQ and coys at Davies
Street, Berkeley Square, London W, and concurrently amalgamated with
19th Middlesex (St.
Giles's and St. George's, Bloomsbury) VRC |
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- A Company
- B Company
- C Company
- D Company
- E Company
- F Company
- G Company
- H Company
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1915.03 |
1/9th (County
of London) Battalion, The
London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
renumbered on formation of 2/9th Battalion |
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1916.07.07 |
transferred
to the corps of The King's Royal Rifle
Corps |
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1920.02.07 |
9th (County
of London) Battalion, The
London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Davies Street, Berkeley Square |
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- A Company at ?
- B Company at ?
- C Company at ?
- D Company at ?
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1922 |
9th London
Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) |
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1937.08.10 |
Queen Victoria's
Rifles, The King's Royal Rifle
Corps
converted to motorcycles |
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1939.03.31 |
1st Battalion,
Queen Victoria's Rifles, The King's
Royal Rifle Corps
redesignated on formation of duplicate 2nd Battalion |
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1941.03.22 |
7th Battalion
(Queen Victoria's Rifles), The
King's Royal Rifle Corps |
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1947.04.01 |
Queen Victoria's
Rifles, The King's Royal Rifle
Corps
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ and coys at
Westminster, and concurrently amalgamated with duplicate 8th Battalion,
KRRC (QVR) |
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- A Company
- B Company
- C Company
- D Company
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1961.05.01 |
amalgamated
with The Queen's
Westminsters, to form Queen's
Royal Rifles |
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South Africa
1900-02
The Great War (3 battalions):
Hill 60, Ypres 1915
'17, Gravenstafel,
St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Somme 1916 '18, Albert
1916 '18, Guillemont, Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy,
Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon
Wood, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917, Bapaume 1918, Villers
Bretonneux, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, Pursuit to Mons,
France and Flanders 1914-18
The Second World War:
Calais 1940, North-West
Europe 1940
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1870-92 |
none |
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1899.06.14 |
Hon. Col. S.G. Bird, VD |
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1905.07.31 |
Maj-Gen. Herbert Francis Eaton (Cheylesmore),
Baron Cheylesmore, KCVO |
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1913.11.22 |
Lt-Gen. Sir William Pitcairn Campbell, KCB,
TD [also Col. Cmdt. 2nd Bn & 4th Bn KRRC;
Col. Highland LI] |
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1938.05.28 |
Maj-Gen. Thomas Gerard Dalby, CB, DSO |
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1949.07.04 |
Gen. Sir George Watkin Eben James Erskine,
GCB, KBE, DSO [to 1961; also Col Comdt 2nd KRRC] |
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