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Machine-Gun Company in 2nd Battalion, The King’s
Royal Rifle Corps (2 KRRC), June 1928 This
interesting but, to the modern eye rather quaint,
photograph shows members of the Machine-Gun Company in
2nd Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps (2 KRRC),
mounted in Carden-Loyd carriers at Aldershot in June
1928. Each carrier has a crew of two: a member of the
Battalion wearing a steel helmet behind his machine gun
and a driver from the Royal Tank Corps wearing a beret.
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Machine-Gun Company in 2nd Battalion, The King’s
Royal Rifle Corps (2 KRRC), June 1928
This interesting but, to the modern eye rather
quaint, photograph shows members of the Machine-Gun
Company in 2nd Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps
(2 KRRC), mounted in Carden-Loyd carriers at Aldershot
in June 1928. Each carrier has a crew of two: a member
of the Battalion wearing a steel helmet behind his
machine gun and a driver from the Royal Tank Corps
wearing a beret.
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13 Platoon 3rd Green Jackets (Rifle Brigade) Borneo
This photograph shows members of 13 Platoon, 3rd
Green Jackets (The Rifle Brigade), at Balai Ringin in
the First Division of Sarawak (Borneo) in 1965. The
platoon, formed entirely of buglers, storemen and other
personnel from Headquarters Company, had just returned
from an operation in the forward area.
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2nd Green Jackets (KRRC) in Berlin This photograph, intended to accompany a press release,
shows members of 2nd Green Jackets (The King’s Royal
Rifle Corps) in front of the Brandeburg Gate in Berlin
in 1961/2, soon after the wall was built.
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1st Battalion, Queen Victoria’s Rifles (QVR) training
as a motor-cycle reconnaissance battalion.
This photograph from the Museum archives features 1st
Battalion, Queen Victoria’s Rifles (QVR), a TA regiment
affiliated to The King’s Royal Rifle Corps, training as
a motor-cycle reconnaissance battalion in the New Forest
near Beaulieu in 1939.
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First course to be trained on the Maxim Gun at the
School of Musketry Hythe This photograph from an
album in the Museum archives features the first course
of students to be trained on the use of the Maxim gun at
the School of Musketry, Hythe, in 1889.
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Base hospital Camp at the siege of Ladysmith 1899
This photograph from the Museum archives shows the Base
Hospital Camp at Ladysmith some time between the start
of the South African War on 11 October 1899 and the end
of the year. Additional to the hospital site it
indicates the nature of the landscape, the buildings at
Ladysmith and their dispersion, and of the hills
surrounding the town which were occupied by the Boers
during their encirclement of the town between 30 October
1899 and 28 February 1900.
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HRH The Duke of Edinburgh Visits 1 Rifle Brigade in
Malaya 1956. This photograph from the Museum
archives shows HRH The Duke of Edinburgh inspecting
members of I Company, 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade
(1 RB), at Wardieburn Camp, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, on 1
November 1956.
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1st Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps, crossing
the Kuram River This photograph shows
members of the 1st Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle
Corps, crossing the Kuram River on 1 December 1926
during a 262-mile march from Rawalpindi to Razmak on the
North-West Frontier of India (now Pakistan).
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The Wreck of RIMS Warren Hastings.
This photograph from the Museum archives shows the wreck
of the Royal Indian Marine Ship (RIMS) Warren Hastings
which ran aground on the coastline of Réunion (Pacific)
on 14 January 1897. Further photographs show some of
the survivors and the camp established for salvage from
the wreck.
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2 KRRC Band at Ranikhet India -The exact
provenance of this photograph is not known. However, the
bandsmen are wearing Broderick caps with King’s Royal
Rifle Corps cap badges. There is also a reference to
Ranikhet chalked on the box in the foreground of the
photograph.
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