The Royal Green Jackets
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (43rd & 52nd), The Kings Royal Rifle Corps (60th) and The Rifle Brigade (95th) were amalgamated in 1966 to form The Royal Green …
The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) - National Army Museum
In 1966, it merged with the two other regiments of the Green Jackets Brigade to form The Royal Green Jackets. In January 1800, the British Army formed a corps of 40 officers and men to …
Royal Green Jackets - Wikipedia
The Royal Green Jackets (RGJ) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, one of two "large regiments" within the Light Division (the other being The Light Infantry). The Royal Green …
60th Royal Americans Regitment of Foot
The 60th Regiment was much later designated as the King’s Royal Rifle Corps by the War of 1812; and today is known as the Royal Green Jackets. Light infantry portrayal at Herkimer …
Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) - Wikipedia
Post war, in 1958 the regiment formed part of the Green Jackets Brigade as 3rd Green Jackets and was amalgamated with the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) and the 2nd Green Jackets …
The King’s Royal Rifle Corps - National Army Museum
This infantry regiment was formed in 1756 and was one of the first in the British Army to be equipped with rifles. In 1966, it merged with the two other regiments of the Green Jackets …
The 95th Rifles | History
Instead of the classic 'redcoat' with white crossbelts worn by most infantrymen, the Rifles wore a distinctive 'greenjacket' and black leatherwork. This was the first attempt at camouflage by the …
British Light Infantry Regiments & National Service
1958: 3rd Green Jackets, The Rifle Brigade.
The Sharpe Dressed Man: The Uniforms of Richard Sharpe
The one surviving jacket in the Royal Green Jackets Museum in Winchester has plain buttons, but we know from the regulations as well as the memoirs of Rifleman / Bugler William Green that …
Featured Story - Royal Green Jackets
By January 1812, Craufurd had been promoted to Major-General. Wellington’s forces were gathered at Ciudad Rodrigo, besieging the city’s French garrison. With two breaches blasted …