• The Leicester Town Rifles was an early unit of the British Volunteer Force raised in 1859. It went on to become the parent unit of the Territorial Army...
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    Corps in Leicestershire, with titles like the 'Leicester Town Rifles' and the 'Duke of Rutland's Belvoir Rifles'. Together these formed an administrative battalion...
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  • Joe Norton (category Footballers from Leicester)
    United, Leicester City, Bristol Rovers and Swindon Town. During the First World War, Norton served as a private in the Leicester Town Rifles, which fought...
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    Aylestone Road (category Sports venues in Leicester)
    requisitioned as a base for military training and headquarters of the Leicester Town Rifles. From hosting its inaugural first-class match in 1901 through to...
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  • weeks in Gothenburg harbour the Rifles returned to England without firing a shot. In July 1807, Green and the Rifles left England for the third time to...
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  • brochure for the INCO-Mond-Wiggin Group of Companies). Publication 1304 (5804). De Montfort Press, Slater Street, Leicester: Raithby, Lawrence & Co. Ltd....
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  • The Merionethshire Militia, later the Royal Merioneth Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county of...
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  • Beard's Town, also known as Chenussio (in Seneca) and "Genesee Castle", was a powerful Seneca town in the Genesee River Valley near modern Leicester in Livingston...
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    Hungerford (category Towns in Berkshire)
    of Leicester. When he died in 1118, he passed his English estates, including Hungerford, to his son Robert and his heirs who encouraged the town's growth...
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    Bernard Vann (category Artists' Rifles soldiers)
    appearances for the club on 23 March 1907. Later that year, he played for Leicester Fosse, playing in two non-league games for the club. From 1907 to 1910...
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