London Rifle Brigade
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The London Rifle Brigade was a volunteer regiment of the British Army.
Cap badge of the London Rifle Brigade.
Group, London Rifle Brigade, 1896
Troops of the 1/5th Battalion (London Rifle Brigade), London Regiment, in a reserve trench in Chimpanzee Valley between Hardecourt and Guillemont, 6 September 1916.
Infantrymen of the 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) (London Rifle Brigade) move forward cautiously near Éterville, Normandy, 29 June 1944.
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
London Rifle Brigade
…Charles Burnell. On 10 February 1916, it moved again, into the 169th Brigade, part of the 56th (London) Division. It was transferred to the corps of the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) on 7 July the same year, though it still also remained a battalion of the London Regiment. The regiment was disbanded in 1919 and reformed in the…
Cap badge of the Rifle Brigade
Coote Manningham (first from left), the co-founder of the regiment
c. 1803 illustration of a regimental rifleman
Illustration of a regimental soldier (right) in 1812