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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 7131 Private London Regiment
British Army 393345 Private London Regiment
British Army 393345 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Harry William Mayne -
Born 1885
British Army 2938 Lance Corporal London Regiment 2nd Battalion
British Army Captain Royal Air Force
More about William Martin Groom -
Born 1891
Died 1917
British Army Second Lieutenant London Regiment 1/9th lond Battalion
British Army Captain London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army Captain London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
More about Geoffrey Foster Griffith -
Born 1887
Died 1918
British Army 6092 Private London Regiment
British Army 392540 Private London Regiment
British Army 392540 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
More about Ernest Edgar Snoswell -
Born 1891
Died 1917
British Army 5852 Private London Regiment
British Army 392349 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd battalion
More about Ronald Eustace Ming -
Born 1890
Died 1917
British Army 5813 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 392314 Rifleman London Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Lionel Thomas Crack -
Born 1886
Died 1917
British Army 5260 Private London Regiment
British Army 392021 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Thomas Romney Robinson Call -
Born 1898
Died 1968
British Army Captain London Regiment and Staff
British Army Lt London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
British Army Captain London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles)
More about Cuthbert Alfred Garnet Keeson -
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 1887
Died 1917
British Army 415259 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 415259 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd/9th Battalion
More about Albert Edward Victor Bloyce -
Born 1893
Died 1917
British Army 6644 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 392922 Rifleman London Regiment 2nd battalion
More about Edward Oscar Green -
Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army 5259 Private London Regiment
British Army 392020 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Frank Woodhead Pogson -
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 -
Born 1890
Died 1917
British Army 8090 Private London Regiment
British Army 394024 Private London Regiment
British Army 394024 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Harry Johnson -
Died 1917
British Army 5801 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 392306 Rifleman London Regiment Queen Victoria Rifles, 2nd Battaliom
More about George Edward Bonner -
Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army 3276 Private London Regiment
British Army 415077 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Henry Matthew Fisher -
Died 1917
British Army 5181 and then 391973 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about John Lilley -
Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army 4976 Private London Regiment
British Army 391831 Private London Regiment
British Army 391831 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
More about Charles Herbert -
Born 1877
Died 1917
British Army 8022 Private London Regiment
British Army 393959 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Percy Loweth Elliston -
Died 1917
British Army 8388 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 394184 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 394184 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Albert Bray