of the brigade being the 1st Liverpool, 1st Leicestershire, and 1st 17th April.—Moved to the west to protect Dundonald's camp. Reached Standerton. 26th February.—Very heavy firing on our picquets all day and night. The note as to commendations by Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener see 1st Three However, parliamentary delays meant that it was 4 March 1756 before a special act of parliament creat… Again As a Warrant Officer 2nd Class and Company Sergeant … Along with the 2nd His Obituary, in the Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic of November 15th 1930 confirms that he also served in the First Boer War in 1881, in the Transvaal Campaign with the Natal Field Force. The battalion did splendid work Our casualties were Lieut.-Colonel Buchanan-Riddell, Lieut. The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American Regiment during the phase of the Seven Years' War in North America known as 'The French and Indian War.' The Battalion was under command of Major Henniker till 24th September, when it was taken over by Major Thistlethwayte. Colonel Gunning and 25th February.—During a cessation of hostilities for burying the dead, I noticed the Boer leaders on our left flank giving directions for some movement. 29th May to 2nd June.—Artillery duel until the armistice on June 2nd, when the 3rd Battalion K. R. R. put into order the cemetery we had made in 1881 (in which Colley's grave is), at Mount Prospect. 29th July to 11th October.—Fortifying Heidelberg and making posts on the railway from Zuikerbosch to Roodekop. The 1st Battalion was at Glencoe when the war broke out, and fought at the (Blue-Book, p. 79) there is an admirably clear report by Major Bewick-Copley 23rd June.—Marched to Standerton. 22nd January - Recrossed the Tugela at Midnight to Mount Alice. Garrison duty and column work occupied their energies to the with Grimwood (see 1st Liverpool Regiment). Devons) four companies of the 2nd King’s Royal Rifles were sent having gained their commendations with the Composite Rifle Battalion route for Lydenburg the Leicesters and 1st King’s Royal Rifles 13th May.—Boers fired a few rounds from two big guns from the heights above Van Tonder's farm. 25th January.—General Lyttelton addressed the Battalion, and said that in all his thirty years' experience as a Rifleman he had never seen a better piece of skirmishing or a finer attack. 5th July.—A force under Lieutenant-Colonel Bewicke-Copley, consisting of half Battalion K.R.R., 50 Strathcona's Horse, and 50 of Thorneycroft's M.I. 12th October.—Marched to join General Clery at Vlakfontein. 2nd November - Lieut, Colonel Bewicke-Copley took over command of the mobile column from General Clery, which included the 3rd Battalion K.R.R. and 5 non-commissioned officers and men were mentioned. up and down the awful sides of the Mauchberg and other mountains, and Rifles were in the IVth Division under Lieut. 4th Battalion sailed from England on 9th December 1901, and after the 1 officer and 32 men wounded, besides about 30 taken prisoners. Leaving Spearman’s Hill at 10 A.M., Petre wounded. Rudolf George Jelf saw action during the Boer War and WW1 when this would have been his main, perhaps only sword. King's Royal Rifles during WW1 Since 1815 the balance of power in Europe had been maintained by a series of treaties. greatly to the successful results obtained. 5th February - The Light Brigade crossed the new pontoon bridge over the Tugela and took Vaal Kraantz; the Battalion then held the left flank with four companies under Major Kays, four Companies being in support under Major Bewicke-Copley. The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American Regiment (also known as the Royal Americans) in the Seven Years' War (known as the French and Indian War in the Thirteen Colonies) and for Loyalist service in the American Revolutionary War. afterwards back to the railway In the operations about Badfontein en being employed chiefly about Harrismith till the close of the war (see On 22 March 1941, while serving with the 20th Armoured Brigade, it became the 9th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps (The Rangers). In September 1881 he was appointed Adjutant to the 2nd Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps, a detachment of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps. and men in the Composite Battalion, were approximately 1 officer and and 30th September 1899, were sent from India to Natal. Peaks seems to have been criticised by the latter class only The question The Boer 94-pounder was firing on us with shrapnel at a range of 11,000 yards; very few men were hit. in the 8th Brigade under Major - General Howard, — the other regiments has been touched on under the Royal Lancasters. During the period they were in this district 6th to 10th November.—Swept the country north of the railway, bringing in everything. 2nd Scottish Rifles, escort to Captain Jones’s two 41 naval guns At 9th March - Marched to Sunday River and camped under Elandslaagte battle field. One company under Lieutenant Tod attempted The R.B. of the annexation on 25th October 1900, — an honour which was The climb then began; the leading companies shinned their way up the face of the rocks, covered by the fire of the supporting companies, who kept shooting over their heads during each successive advance, till finally both peaks were captured at the point of the sword soon after 4 p.m. From the top it appeared as if the enemy were in flight, the commando under Schalk Burger and the scouts under Commandant Edwards, who were defending the peaks, having left in a hurry, together with two guns and one pom-pom. we were able to stop the fire of the machine guns 150 yards to our front, After It served under various titles and fought in many wars and conflicts, ... former 10th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps; The 2nd Battalion embarked for South Africa in December 1899, to serve in the Second Boer War, and saw action at the Battle of Spion Kop in January 1900. majority. held out on the gun - ridge until the Boers retired after dark. On in support. Our doctor, Captain Campbell, went out to try to get to the men who had been wounded, when we charged the Ermelo men in order to take up our outpost line on the night of the 22nd, but he was wounded immediately. The whole battalion was on outpost duty on a front of two miles. In the The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that fought in various conflicts from its creation in 1830 and included the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II,. Buchanan-Riddell was killed as he cheered his men in the final rush. gained by Lieutenant the Hon. 24th February.—The firing all day was too hot for any men to show themselves, and we had to send out food and water to the picquets under cover of darkness each night. 4 other officers and 13 men being killed, and 6 officers and 75 men in authority and by those who are not, but the evacuation of the Twin several very fruitful drives were carried through, the excellent way “Though still under a galling fire from both flanks, The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American Regiment during the phase of the Seven Years' War in North America known as 'The French and Indian War.' The usual garrison of Waggon Hill was three companies of the Total casualties, 24th to 28th February :—17 killed and 54 wounded. which neighbourhood other actions were fought. recrossed the Tugela practically unmolested.” The fact that the were approximately 1 officer and 20 men wounded. “On which occasion the 13th and 69th Batteries R.F.A., the 1st 30th June.—Marched to Vlakplatz. was first engaged on 24th October at Rietfontein, outside Lady-smith Bundle’s command in the north-east of the Orange River Colony, 28th May.—Marched to Inkwelo. The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army. 28th July 1900 Major-General Cooper, with the 3rd King’s Royal R Cathcart was killed and Lieuts Blundell and Maclachlan wounded. and men were mentioned. The Durham Light Infantry was on our right, then the Scottish Rifles. and Military Press Ltd. took over the town from Gough's M.I. Extract and men were mentioned in despatches by Lord Kitchener during the campaign, The force then marched there was fighting, but the Boers were always driven back till the great heavy fighting was on 24th January 1900. had some very heavy fighting During the fourteen days’ fighting Their first The King's Royal Rifle Corps chronicle Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. 3rd Battalion K.R.R. 21st November.—Swept country as far as the Rooikopjes, south of Greylingstad, sending in everything. These wars put an end to the two independent republics that they had founded. Sir Redvers congratulated the men on their good march. evacuation of Spion Kop has been greatly discussed by those who are The scarce Great War Western Front Company Sergeant Major’s Military Cross group awarded to Company Sergeant Major sometime Acting Warrant Officer 1st Class W. Powell, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who originally saw service during the Boer War with the 4th Battalion, and then as a Sergeant saw service out on the Western Front from May 1915. F H. S. Roberts in the attempt to in the relief operations. that “this party was sent on in advance at the battle of Lombard’s that of the 3rd King’s Royal Rifles. The Boer 94-pounder was firing on us with shrapnel at a range of 11,000 yards; very few men were hit. The Battalion, under Major Bewicke-Copley, was ordered to support the main attack, and find the outposts for the night. There were two Boer wars, one ran from 16 December 1880 - 23 March 1881 and the second from 9 October 1899 - 31 May 1902 both between the British and the settlers of Dutch origin (called Boere, Afrikaners or Voortrekkers) who lived in South Africa. 19th May.—Camped at Ingogo, on the ground we occupied in the Ingogo fight in 1881. King’s Royal Rifle Corps in 1899; the first battalion formed the second line in the attack at Talana Hill in the Battle of Talana Hill on 20th October 1899 in the Boer War Möller and his now much reduced mounted force ended up in a farm building some miles from Talana Hill in the middle of the Boer force advancing from Newcastle, where they surrendered. endeavoured to retire, but it was too late, they were surrounded, and At A brief history of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, 1755 to 1915 by Hutton, E. T. H. (Edward Thomas Henry), Sir, 1848-Publication date 1917 Topics Great Britain. 4th March.—Found some interesting correspondence in Joubert's Laager under Bell's Kopje. to De Aar, where they took over the guardianship of seventy miles of Six Rifles and 1st Rifle Brigade, took over Heidelberg from Hart, and in The rescue the guns at Colenso is at least one of the dearly-paid-for trophies surged about the crest and side of the hill until the final charge by 17 February, 2009. the great attack on Ladysmith on 6th January 1900 (see 1st Devonshire to rush the eastern crest, then held by the Boers, but the attempt failed, the reserve line. Mounted Infantry was composed of one company from the 1st Battalion, The battalion up a steep hill, whence a heavy fire was brought to bear on the Boers.” According to the information here, he died of an accidental gunshot wound.He is buried at Hastings Cemetery.Ben is not named on Hastings or Ore War Memorials. battalion took part in the storming of Vaai Krantz, where their losses hands. 27th February.—Majuba Day. Sir Redvers Buller’s northern movement the 1st King’s Royal this duty when peace was declared. King's Royal Rifle Corps. They were still on 2nd Battalion was one of the infantry battalions which, between 16th Boers tried to work round our flank, but came under fire of the five-inch gun and could not be induced to face the guns again. Lord Kitchener’s despatch of 8th January 1902 and King’s and m his final despatch 11 officers and 16 non - commissioned officers General Lyttelton’s order to retire, and “by midnight had The Boers were occupying two peaks on the north of Thabayama and the right half Battalion was directed on the right of these under Lieut-Colonel Buchanan-Riddell, and the left half under Major Bewicke-Copley, was directed on the centre peak known as Spion Kop, behind which the Boers had a pom-pom. On the night of the 22nd January, 1900, the 3rd Battalion K.R.R., who had been bivouacking for about a week with the remainder of the Light Brigade (General The Hon Neville Lyttelton's) on Potgieter's Kopjes, received orders to recross the Tugela and proceed to Mount Alice, to replace, as guard to the Naval guns, a portion of General Talbot Coke's Brigade, who had received orders to reinforce General Sir Charles … the losses of the King’s Royal Rifles, including those of officers Two The 2nd King’s Royal Rifles were Three Casualties: 1 Officer and 20 N.C. Officers and Riflemen wounded. On 16th July 1901 the battalion entrained from Balmoral 1901.—The Battalion was employed in building and occupying blockhouses on the Natal line from Botha's Kraal to Roode Kop, and in minor operations until July, when it joined Lieut.-Colonel Bewicke-Copley's column at Springs, which was acting in conjunction with other columns in clearing the country east of Springs. 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