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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 1889
Died 1917
British Army 4923 Private London Regiment
British Army 391794 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
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Born 1881
Died 1917
British Army Captain London Regiment
British Army Captain London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Harold Saxon Walker -
Born 1895
Died 1971
British Army Temporary Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps
British Army Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps
British Army 107174 Rifleman London Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Peter Castle Geddes -
Born 1885
Died 1917
British Army Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps
British Army 2883 Lance Sergeant London Regiment 2nd Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 225th Battalion
More about Edward Bernard Davis -
Died 1917
British Army 390004 Serjeant London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army
British Army 1285 or 390004 Serjeant London Regiment 2nd battalion QVR
More about Albert John Choppen -
Died 1917
British Army 5002 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 391847 Lance Corporal London Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Ernest Francis Burton -
Born 1888
Died 1917
British Army 3065 Private Gloucestershire Regiment
British Army 390710 Rifleman County of London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Henry John Cattell -
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Born 1897
British Army Second Lieutenant London Regiment 2/5th lond Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant London Regiment 210th lond Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant London Regiment 2/9th lond Battalion
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More about Victor Alexander Finlayson -
Born 1898
Died 1918
British Army 5051 Private London Regiment
British Army 391882 Rifleman London Regiment 2/9th bn lond Battalion
British Army 391882 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
More about Lionel Eric Dunn -
British Army Lieutenant London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 1st Battalion
British Army Captain London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles)
More about K W Johnson -
Died 1917
British Army 415014 Private London Regiment
British Army 415014 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
More about George Fowler -
Born 1890
Died 1971
British Army Lieutenant London Regiment 2/20th lond Battalion
British Army Lieutenant London Regiment 12th lond Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant London Regiment 2/9th lond Battalion
More about Arthur Paget Cole -
Died 1917
British Army 2063 Corporal London Regiment 1/9th lond Battalion
British Army Lieutenant London Regiment 1/9th lond Battalion
British Army 2063 Lieutenant London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd battalion
More about Harry Devereind Blackburne -
Born 1897
British Army Staff Lieutenant London Regiment 1st Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant London Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Bernard Campbell Cooke -
British Army Temporary Major London Regiment 2/9th lond Battalion
British Army Acting Major London Regiment 2/9th lond Battalion
British Army Captain London Regiment 2/8th lond Battalion
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More about Geoffrey Barnes -
Born 1897
Died 1917
British Army 4120 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 391330 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 391330 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Lewis Cohen -
Born 1897
British Army 549614 Private Royal Engineers
British Army 236909 Rifleman London Regiment 2nd Battalion
British Army 5415 Rifleman London Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Richard George Coates -
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 1885
Died 1917
British Army 6016 Private London Regiment
British Army 392478 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Leonard Hume Williams