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Woodcote Park Convalescent Camp 1916 This
photograph of Woodcote Park Convalescent Camp, near
Epsom in Surrey, is one of two reproduced on postcards
in the Museum’s archives. They were posted in May 1916
by a person signing himself ‘Wal’ to a lady called Miss
Rosie Simons.
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Crossing the Tugela River, South Africa 1900
This photograph is labelled ‘ambulance wagons and
transport crossing the Tugela River by means of a
pontoon bridge in the Boer War in 1899-1900’. The
photograph is listed as originating from the 2nd
Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps. It bears the
initials ‘J.E.M’. in the bottom right hand corner.
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KRRC Machine Gun Section Aldershot 1915 This
photograph is labelled in the Museum photo archives as
showing a machine gun section from The King’s Royal
Rifle Corps at Aldershot in 1915. The observant will
notice, in particular, that the men’s buttons are not
black and their cap badges are not KRRC.
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The Tented Camp of the 10th Brigade at Ash Ranges in
August 1912. This photograph from an album originally belonging to
P.J.R. Currie and now in the Museum archives shows the
tented camp of the 10th Brigade at Ash Ranges in August
1912. The camp was attended by 2nd Battalion, The King’s
Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC).
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Mounted Infantry of 1 RB in Burma This
photograph of mounted infantry is recorded in the
Museum’s archives as being of ‘B Company, 1st Battalion,
The Rifle Brigade, Mounted Infantry, Myingyan, Upper
Burma, 1888’. The reference to the mounted
infantry being a part of B Company is so far unverified.
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King Faisal inspects the KRRC Guard of Honour
This photograph from the Museum’s archives shows
HM King Faisal of Iraq inspecting a King’s Royal
Rifle Corps Guard of Honour on the King’s arrival at
Southampton on 23 September 1952.
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Captain H. H. de B. Monk MC AFC of The King’s Royal
Rifle Corps,
later Royal Flying Corps.This photograph is one of three in the
Museum archives of Captain H. H. de B. Monk MC AFC of
The King’s Royal Rifle Corps, later Royal Flying Corps.
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1st Battalion Rifle Brigade in India in 1921
This photograph from an album in the Museum’s
archives is of a platoon of B Company, 1st Battalion,
The Rifle Brigade, mounted on vehicles as a quick
reaction force outside a barrack block in the
Battalion’s barracks at Cawnpore, India, in 1921. It is
not known who owned the album.
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The Rifle Brigade in China 1900-1901
From the makeshift sign in this
photograph taken in 1901 you might think that the whole
of 3rd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, was in North China
from 1900-01. In fact, you would be wrong. Only seven
men from the Battalion, which was stationed in India,
went to North China in June 1900 to assist in quelling
the Boxer Rebellion and four of them are in the
photograph.
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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 (Indian
Ocean)
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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