King's Royal Rifle Corps
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The King's Royal Rifle Corps was a infantry regiment of the British Army. It was raised in the Thirteen Colonies in 1756 as the 62nd Regiment of Foot to serve in the French and Indian War, and was ren
c. 1914 regimental busby badge
Regimental private in 1758
Regimental private (left) in 1812
Two regimental privates, c. 1900
The Rifle Brigade was a rifle regiment of the British Army raised on 17 January 1800 as the Experimental Corps of Riflemen to provide sharpshooters, scouts, and skirmishers. They were renamed the Rifl
King's Royal Rifle Corps
…1830. It served in multiple conflicts of the Victorian era and both world wars before joining the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) in the Green Jackets Brigade in 1946. In 1966 all three regiments were formally amalgamated into a new regiment known as the Royal Green Jackets, with…
Cap badge of the Rifle Brigade
Coote Manningham (first from left), the co-founder of the regiment
c. 1803 illustration of a regimental rifleman