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Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) - Cranston Fine Arts Regiment Art

Name : Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)

Started : 1921
Ended : 1966

Notes :
Amalgamated in 1966 to create the Royal Green Jackets.

Battle Honours

1793 - 1802 : Copenhagen during the French Revolutionary Wars.
1807 : Monte Video during the Expedition against the Spanish in Brazil.
1808 - 1814 : Rolica, Vimiera, Corunna, Busaco, Barrosa, Fuentos d'Onoro, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse during the Peninsula War.
1815 : Battle of Waterloo.
1846 - 1847 : Seventh Kaffir War.
1851 - 1853 : Eighth Kaffir War.
1854 - 1855 : Alma, Inkerman, Sebastopol, during the Crimean War.
1857 - 1858 : Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny.
1873 - 1874 : Ashantee, during the Ashantee War.
1878 - 1880 : Ali Masjid during the Second Afghan War.
1885 - 1887 : Third Burma War.
1896 - 1898 : Khartoum, Sudan Campaign.
1899 - 1902 : Defence of Ladysmith and relief of Ladysmith during the Boer War.
1914 - 1918 : Le Cateau, Marne, Neuve Chappelle, Ypres, Somme, Arras, Messines, Cambrai, Hindenburg Line, Macedonia.
1939 - 1945 : Calaise 1940, Beda Fomm, Sidi Rezegh, Alem el Halfa, El Alamein, in North Africa in 1940 - 1943, Cassino, Capture of Perugia, both in Italy 1943, 1945.

Previously :

Prince_Consort's_Own_Rifle_Brigade

Subsequently :

Royal_Green_Jackets

Artwork of this regiment

Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consorts Own) by Richard Simkin.
3 editions.
£2.90 - £180.00

Carriers by David Pentland.
5 editions.
£2.90 - £1100.00

The Defence of Calaise by Terence Cuneo.
One of 2 editions available.
£48.00

The Kidney Ridge action by Terence Cuneo.
2 editions.
£40.00 - £48.00

Previous Regiment Lineage(s) :
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Experimental_Corps_of_Riflemen (1800 - 1800)
Rifle_Corps (1800 - 1802)
95th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Rifles) (1802 - 1816)
Rifle_Brigade (1816 - 1862)
Prince_Consort's_Own_Rifle_Brigade (1862 - 1921)

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Subsequent Regiment Lineage :
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Royal_Green_Jackets (1966 - 2007)
The_Rifles (2007 - Present)

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Text for the above items :

Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consorts Own) by Richard Simkin.

No text for this item

Carriers by David Pentland.

Normandy, France, July 1944. Universal Carriers MkII of the Rifle Brigade, 11th Armoured Division, race forward at speed towards enemy positions.

The Defence of Calaise by Terence Cuneo.

Depicting members of the 1st battalion The Rifle brigade in the defence of Calais in 1940 during which for four days they held off the repeated attacks of German tanks and infantry thus facilitating the successful evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from the beaches of Dunkirk.

The Kidney Ridge action by Terence Cuneo.

Members of the 2nd battalion The Rifle Brigade and 239 Battery RA knocking out at least 32 enemy tanks during the desert campaign on 27th October 1942, Lieutenant VB Turner was awarded the Victoria Cross for this action.

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