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KRRC Colonel Commandant’s inspection 2 July 1932

These photographs of the Inspection of 2nd Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps, by the Colonel-Commandant, Lieutenant-General Sir William Pitcairn Campbell KCB TD, were taken in brilliant sunshine at Tidworth on 2nd July 1932. Many past officers of the Battalion in civilian clothes attended.

Woodcote Park Convalescent Camp 1916

This photograph of Woodcote Park Convalescent Camp, near Epsom in Surrey, is one of two reproduced on postcards in the Museum’s archives. They were posted in May 1916 by a person signing himself ‘Wal’ to a lady called Miss Rosie Simons.

Crossing The Tugela River South Africa 1900

This photograph is labelled ‘ambulance wagons and transport crossing the Tugela River by means of a pontoon bridge in the Boer War in 1899-1900’. The photograph is listed as originating from the 2nd Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps. It bears the initials ‘J.E.M’. in the bottom right hand corner.

Mounted Infantry of 1 RB in Burma

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…

Captain H.H. De B. Monk MC AFC

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.

1st Battalion Rifle Brigade in India 1921

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.

The Rifle Brigade in China 1900-1901

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…

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