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2nd Battalion Queen Victoria Rifles (1917)
2nd Battalion Queen Victoria Rifles (1917)
Whilst the 1st Battalion's exploits are well known (due to their deployment in 1914 and subsequent fighting at Hill 60 in 1915 which included the award of a Victoria Cross), the 2nd Battalion is less recognised. Although raised in 1914, officially titled 2/9th County of London Battalion (Queen Victoria Rifles) and often shortened to 2QVR, the soldiers spent much time in camps in the UK, only finally being deployed to the Western Front in Feb 17. Serving in the line at Bullecourt, the Battalion were then drawn into the battle for Passchendaele, with 2QVR taking part in two wasteful assaults near St Julien, where they suffered heavy casualties (including being gassed by their own side). My grandfather was a serving soldier - see Horace Braunsten. And so within a year of landing at Le Havre, 2QVR had been disbanded and amalgamated with the 1st battalion. This community is dedicated to the men of 2QVR, raising awareness of those terrible months, much of it spent in the mud of Flanders in 1917 that ended the battalion as a fighting unit. I also hope that by identifying these men amongst the millions of scattered records on this site and starting to flesh out their background and stories, relatives and other interested researchers will be able to find them in the future and know them again.
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Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army 5756 Private London Regiment
British Army 392266 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Harold Arthur Gordon Mann -
Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army 4967 Private London Regiment
British Army 391825 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd battalion
More about Henry Joseph Elsey -
Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army 393145 Private London Regiment
More about James Ernest Tiffin -
Born 1888
Died 1917
British Army 5231 Private London Regiment
British Army 392000 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd battalion
More about Albert Ronald Sutherland -
Born 1887
Died 1917
British Army 8229 Private London Regiment
British Army 39405 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Graham Cork -
Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army 4060 Private London Regiment
British Army 391289 Private London Regiment
British Army 391289 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Stephen William Quibell -
Born 1897
British Army Staff Lieutenant London Regiment 1st Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant London Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Bernard Campbell Cooke -
Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army 415063 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Henry Joseph Lee -
British Army T/293639 Private Royal Army Service Corps
British Army A/202231 Private King's Royal Rifle Corps
British Army 620548 Private Royal Engineers
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More about Patrick Fallon -
Born 1892
Died 1917
British Army 4890 Private London Regiment
British Army 391771 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd battalion
More about Alfred Joseph Hedges -
Born 1895
Died 1917
British Army 3508 Private London Regiment
British Army 390941 Lance Corporal London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battaliom
More about Albert George Richard Watkins -
Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army 5258 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 392019 Rifleman London Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Leonard Harry Hudson Clark -
Died 1917
British Army 3401 Private London Regiment
British Army 39088 Lance Corporal London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Allan William Wilson -
Born 1890
Died 1917
British Army 392030 Lance Corporal London Regiment
British Army 392030 Lance Corporal London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd battalion
More about Sydney Clarence Collier -
Born 1893
Died 1917
British Army 4983 Private London Regiment
British Army 391834 Private London Regiment
British Army 391834 Lance Corporal London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 9th Battalion
More about Reginald William King -
Born 1893
British Army 5862 Private London Regiment
British Army 392358 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Walter Albon Ellement -
Born 1895
Died 1973
British Army 394093 (Originally 8296) Private London Regiment 2nd battalion
British Army 51572 Private King's Royal Rifle Corps
More about Ernest Hector Barnett -
Born 1896
Died 1968
British Army 1490 Private Honourable Artillery Company
British Army
British Army Lieutenant London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) attached West Somerset Yeomanry attached 2/1st Battalion
More about John Leonard Worlledge -
British Army 5153 Private London Regiment 9 lond Battalion
British Army 391954 Rifleman London Regiment 2nd Battaliom
More about Thomas J Kingswell -
Born 1880
Died 1917
British Army 5388 Private London Regiment
British Army 392099 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Gorsnwy Story