London Rifle Brigade

[1][2] On 1 July 1881 it was made part of the King's Royal Rifle Corps as its 9th Volunteer Battalion.

It was moved to Crowborough in September 1914 and landed in France on 5 November, at Le Havre, upon which it left 1st London Division.

It was transferred to the corps of the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) on 7 July the same year, though it still also remained a battalion of the London Regiment.

Engine 6166 of the LMS Royal Scot Class was named after the unit in October 1930.

The London Rifle Brigade remained at the Bunhill Row drill hall until it was destroyed by bombing in 1940 / 1941.

[1][2] The London Rifle Brigade was one of the units that cut its badge into the chalk downs at Fovant during the First World War, whilst its memorial tablet and roll of honour for the World Wars is located in St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate[10] and its regimental museum is effectively the Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum in Winchester.

Group, London Rifle Brigade, 1896
Troops of the 1/5th Battalion (London Rifle Brigade), London Regiment, in a reserve trench in Chimpanzee Valley between Hardecourt and Guillemont, 6 September 1916.
Infantrymen of the 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) (London Rifle Brigade) move forward cautiously near Éterville , Normandy , 29 June 1944.