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Royal Green Jackets
The Royal Green Jackets were formed
on the 1st January 1966, from the Green Jackets Brigade, who were
formed on the 6th November 1958.
Three Infantry Regiments formed
the Green Jackets Brigade, and they were,
Oxfordshire
and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (43rd & 52nd )
The Kings Royal Rifle Corps (60th Rifles )
The
Rifle Brigade (95th).
The Regiment were the first
British to wear green camouflage and to be armed with a rifle, instead
of a musket, which made shooting much more accurate. They shared the Depot
at Winchester from 1858.
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire
Light Infantry were the first Light Infantry Regiment.
THE
OXFORDSHIRE AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY (43rd & 52nd)
The British Army
was continually expanded and reduced. In 1741 the 54th Regiment of Infantry
was raised, this was one of the expansions. Disbandments at the end of the
war in 1748 spared the regiment, but it was renumbered as the 43rd, due
to the disbandments of other regiments. In 1755 another 54th Regiment was
raised, but this one was based at Coventry, instead of Winchester like
the first 54th Regiment. Then in 1757 it was renumbered the 52nd, The two
Regiments became the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in
1908.
Battle
Honours
1756- 1763, Quebec,
(1759) Martinique (1762) Havannah during the Seven Years War
1789 -
1791 Mysore during the Third Mysore War
1790 -
1793 Hindoostan in India
1793 -
1802 Martinique during the French Revolutionary Wars
1808 -
1814 Vimiera, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentos d'Onoro, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz,
Salamanca, Vittoria, . Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse during
the Peninsula war
1815 -
Battle of Waterloo
1851 -
1853 South Africa during the Eighth Kaffir War
1857 -
1858 Delhi, during the Indian Mutiny
1863 -
1865 New Zealand
1899 -
1902 relief of Kimberley, Paardeburg, during the Boer War
1914 -
1918 Mons, Ypres, Langemarck, Nonne Bosschen, Somme, Cambrai, Piave,
Doiran, Ctesiphon, defence of Kut Al Amara during the First World War
1939 -
1945 Cassel, Ypres Comines Canal, Normandy Landing, Pegasus
Bridge, Reichswald, Rhine, Enfidaville, Salerno, Anzio, Gemmano Ridge.
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THE
KINGS ROYAL RIFLE CORPS (60th)
Raised in 1755
as the 60th Royal American Regiment of four battalions of American colonists.
Over thirty years after the defeat of Napolean there was peace, during
which the Regiment changed it`s title, first to The Duke of York`s Own
Rifle Corps and then in 1830, to The King`s Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC). The
Regiment was known as the 60th Rifles. In 1858 the Rifle Depot was established
at Winchester as a headquarters and training centre for the KRRC and Rifle
Brigade.
Battle
Honours
1756 - 1763
Louisbrg, Quebec Martinique, Havannah, during the Seven years War
1763 -
1764 Pontiac's Conspiracy in North America.
1809
Martinique during the Napoleonic wars
1808 -
1814, Rolica, Vimiera, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentos d'Onoro, Albuhera, Ciudad
Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse,
during the Peninsula War
1848 -
1849 Mooltan, Goojerat, Punjaub during the Second Sikh War
1851 -
1853 Eighth Kaffir war
1857 -
1858 Delhi, during the Indian Mutiny
1857 -
1860 Taku Forts, Pekin during the Second China War
1877 -
1879 Zulu and Basuto War
1878 -1880
Ali Masjid, Ahmed Khel, Khandahar during the second Afghan War
1880
Tel El Kibir, during the Arabi Pasha revolt
1882 -1884
First Sudan War
1895
Chitral Campaign
1899 -
1902 Defence of Ladysmith, relief of Ladysmith during the Boer war
1914 -
1918 Mons, Marne, Ypres 1914, 1915 , 1917, 1918, Somme,1916, 1918,
Arras 1917, 1918 Messines 1917, 1918 Epehy, Canal du Nord, Selles
Sambre
1939 -
1945 Calais 1940, Rhineland, Egyptian Frontier, 1940, Sidi
Rezegh 1941, Alem el Halfa, El Alamein, Italy 1943, 45, Greece
1941, 1944 - 45
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THE
RIFLE BRIGADE
In 1800 Experimental
Corps of Riflemen was created, it`s members were handpicked from other
Regiments. They were dressed in green and armed with a Baker rifle. After
almost 6 months it was no longer Experimental and had a new name of The
Rifle Corps. In 1816 They were renamed The Rifle Brigade.
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, Soome Arras, Messines,
Cambrai, Hindenburg Line,
Macedonia.
1939 -
1945 calaise 1940, Neda Fomm, Sidi Rezegh, Alem el Halfa, El Alamein,
in North Africa in 1940 - 1943, Cassino, Capture of Perugia both
in Italy 1943, 1945
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