• The Bradford Rifles was a Volunteer unit of the British Army formed in 1859. It went on to become a battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment in the Territorial...
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    The Royal Irish Rifles (became the Royal Ulster Rifles from 1 January 1921) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army, first created in 1881 by...
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  • appointed to the Honorary Colonelcy of the 2nd volunteer battalion (Bradford Rifles) of The Prince of Wales Own Regiment of Yorkshire. His Victoria Cross...
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    Leeds (redirect from Leeds – Bradford, UK)
    October 1973. 5th Battalion The Rifles: 1 August 2009. 4th Battalion The Parachute Regiment: 9 December 2020. Leeds Rifles Leeds Pals 51st (2nd Yorkshire...
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    (TF), with RHQ at Belle Vue Barracks in Bradford (since demolished). 3rd (V) Bn became 7th and 8th (Leeds Rifles) Bns (TF), a double battalion with RHQ...
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    remain in service today, especially various designated marksman rifles/sniper rifles and medium machine guns/general-purpose machine guns (i.e. M24 Sniper...
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    son, Lt. Col. Edward Austen Bradford, DSO (1879–1958) served with 60th Rifles. 1836–1853: Edward Ridley Colborne Bradford 1853–1855: Second Lieutenant...
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  • to write full-time. According to the introduction written by his son, Bradford, for The Lost Classics of Jack O'Connor (2004), O'Connor wrote more than...
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  • The Birmingham Rifles was a volunteer unit of the British Army founded in Birmingham in 1859. As the 5th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, it served...
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  • April 1871 as the 49th Hastings Battalion of Rifles Redesignated 8 May 1900 as the 49th Regiment Hastings Rifles Amalgamated 12 March 1920 with the 16th Prince...
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