Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)
The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army formed in January 1800 as the "Experimental Corps of Riflemen" to provide sharpshooters, scouts, and skirmishers. They were soon renamed the "Rifle Corps". In January 1803, they became an established regular regiment and were titled the 95th Regiment of Foot (Rifles). In 1816, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, they were again renamed, this time as the "Rifle Brigade".
Cap badge of the Rifle Brigade
Re-enactors depicting riflemen of the 95th
Lieut. Col James Fullarton, 3rd Battalion, 95th Regiment, Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Three members of 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade, who had fought in the Crimean War: Private John Sitcombs, Colour Sergeant A. Holdaway and Colour Sergeant J. Johnson
A rifle regiment is a military unit consisting of a regiment of infantry troops armed with rifles and known as riflemen. While all infantry units in modern armies are typically armed with rifled weapons the term is still used to denote regiments that follow the distinct traditions that differentiated them from other infantry units.
Personnel of 1st Battalion, The Rifles on parade in Chepstow, 21 May 2009.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, escorted by a Bermuda Militia Artillery officer in Royal Artillery blue No. 1 Dress, inspects green-uniformed riflemen of the Bermuda Rifles in 1961
