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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 5303 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 392055 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 392055 Corporal London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
More about Charles Ablewhite -
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 -
British Army 2680 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 390542 Rifleman London Regiment 2nd battalion
More about George Fennell -
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 -
Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army 1670 Serjeant London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 390116 Serjeant London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 390116 Serjeant London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
More about Thomas Frederick Borsberry -
Born 1897
Died 1985
British Army Second Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment 4th devonshire regiment attached 9th manchest Battalion
British Army 391039 Corporal London Regiment 2nd battalion
More about Charles Henry Brabham -
Died 1917
British Army 2828 Serjeant London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 390607 Serjeant London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 390607 Serjeant London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
More about William Colling -
Born 1994
Died 1917
British Army 5271 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 392031 Lance Corporal London Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Albert Ernest Chappell -
Born 1897
Died 1917
British Army 5139 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 391944 Rifleman London Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Henry James Baker -
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 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 -
British Army Captain London Regiment 2nd battalion
More about Graham Burnard White -
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 -
Died 1917
British Army 3988 Private London Regiment
British Army 391237 Rifleman London Regiment (Quuen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Alfred Wesson -
Born 1897
British Army Lieutenant London Regiment
British Army Captain London Regiment
More about Horace Samuelson -
Died 1917
British Army 3554 Corporal London Regiment
British Army 390968 Corporal London Regiment
British Army 390968 Corporal London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
More about Horace Mallett -
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 -
British Army 590172 Private Labour Corps
British Army 252860 Corporal London Regiment Queen Victoria Rifles
More about Hardy Scillitoe -
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 1898
Died 1918
British Army 4150 Private London Regiment
British Army 391352 Lance Corporal London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd battalion
More about Fred Roper