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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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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 -
British Army Honorary Major London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
British Army Lieutenant Colonel London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about William Palmer Wilton -
Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army 4227 Private London Regiment
British Army 391405 Private London Regiment
British Army 391405 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about John Smale -
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 1893
Died 1918
British Army 5217 Corporal London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 391990 Corporal London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
British Army 391990 Corporal London Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Hubert George Garratt -
British Army 391045 Corporal London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Leonard J Savage -
Died 1917
British Army 1467 Private London Regiment
British Army 390047 Sergeant London Regiment
More about Alexander Clement White -
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 1885
Died 1917
British Army 391961 Corporal London Regiment
British Army 391961 Corporal London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about William Henry Chapman -
Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army 394606 Private London Regiment
British Army 394606 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd battalion
More about Cyril Robinson -
Born 1890
Died 1917
British Army 1204 Private County of London Yeomanry
British Army 265283 Private Corps of Hussars
British Army Second Lieutenant London Regiment
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More about Leslie Norton Rolason -
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 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 -
Died 1917
British Army 8017 Private London Regiment
British Army 393954 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd battalion
More about Alfred James Hutchinson -
Died 1918
British Army 1228 Corporal London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 394261 Corporal London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 394261 Corporal London Regiment 2/9th (county of lond Battalion
More about Ernest Clarence Carmichael -
Born 1883
Died 1917
British Army 5184 Private London Regiment
British Army 391975 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Stanley Basil Lewthwaite -
Born 1869
Died 1930
British Army Lieutenant Colonel London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Percy Edward Langworthy Parry -
Born 1890
Died 1917
British Army 534626 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Walter Alfred Payne -
Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army 5193 Private London Regiment
British Army 391980 Private London Regiment
British Army 391980 Lance Corporal London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Edmund Holt -
Died 1917
British Army 5287 Corporal London Regiment
British Army 392044 Corporal London Regiment
British Army 392044 Corporal London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd battalion
More about George William Mills