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. The remaining detail is almost certainly correct with Myingyan situated to the…
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.
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. The photograph shows him standing in front of Airco DH.9 bomber 3081, most probably in 1918.
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.
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…
