Queen's Rangers: John Simcoe and his Rangers During the Revolutionary War for America by John Simcoe (1787). In 1908, the Volunteers and Militia were reorganised nationally, with the former becoming the Territorial Force and the latter the Special Reserve; [19] the regiment now had two Reserve but no Territorial battalions. [20] [21] First World War [ edit ] Memorial to William Henry Laverty, King's Royal Rifles, killed during the First World War. St Swithun-upon-Kingsgate Church, Winchester King's Royal Rifle Corps Memorial in Winchester Regular Army [ edit ] Redesignated on 24 July 1946 as Battery A, 6th armored Field artillery Battalion, and relieved from assignment to the 37th infantry division.

Nov Joseph Henry Evans born 12 Oct 1895, son of Obdula Misna and Sgt John Thomas Evans of Floriana. The regiment was intended to combine the characteristics of a colonial corps with those of a foreign legion. Swiss and German forest fighting experts, American colonists and British volunteers from other British regiments were recruited. These men were Protestants, an important consideration for fighting against the predominantly Catholic French. The officers were also recruited from Europe – not from the American colonies – and consisted of English, Scots, Irish, Dutch, Swiss and Germans. It was the first time foreign officers were commissioned as British Army officers. In total, the regiment consisted of 101 officers, 240 non-commissioned officers and 4,160 enlisted men. The battalions were raised on Governors Island, New York. The regiment was renumbered the 60th (Royal American) Regiment in February 1757 when the 50th (Shirley's) and 51st (Pepperrell's) foot regiments were removed from the British Army roll after their surrender at Fort Oswego. [8]

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Northamptonshire Record Office, 1960. NUI Galway http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/refsource-show.jsp?id=686 July 1881 The 3rd/60th Regiment became the 3rd Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps. 1882 3rd/KRRC Redesignated 1 September 1963 as the 2d Battalion, 6th Artillery (Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 6th artillery, concurrently consolidated with Battery A, 6th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion [organized in 1898], and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 6th artillery). Reorganized and redesignated (less former Battery A, 6th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion) on 1 September 1971 as the 2d Battalion, 6th Field Artillery (former Battery A, 6th Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, concurrently redesignated as the 2d Battalion, 6th Air Defense Artillery—hereafter separate lineage). Feb 1905 The 1st/KRRC embarked on the Dilwara for Alexandria. Two companies landed in Crete and one company disembarked in Cyprus. 1916 – 1st/KRRC

The regiment's greatest loss of life at one time came on 20 July 1982, when seven RGJ bandsmen were killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb while giving a public concert in Regent's Park. The bomb exploded underneath the bandstand as the bandsmen played music from Oliver! to 120 spectators. [3]

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The 35th Battalion, CEF was authorized on 7 November 1914 and embarked for Britain on 16 October 1915. The battalion was redesignated the 35th Reserve Battalion, CEF on 9 February 1915, and it provided reinforcements to the Canadian Corps in the field until 4 January 1917 when its personnel were absorbed by the 4th Reserve Battalion, CEF. The battalion was disbanded on 8 December 1917. The 4th Battalion landed at Le Havre as part of the 80th Brigade in the 27th Division in December 1914 for service on the Western Front and saw action at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915 [26] but moved to Salonika in November 1915 before returning to France in June 1918. [22] Territorial force [ edit ] Constituted 27 April 1798 in the Regular Army as a company in the 3d Battalion, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, and organized at Fort Jay, New York, as Captain James Stille's Company, 3d Battalion, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers [1] When the White Paper of Defence was published in 2000, the authorised strength was made 10,500 plus the provision of up to 250 in training.