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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 1899
Died 1917
British Army 415271 Lance Corporal London Regiment
More about Herbert John Reeves -
Died 1917
British Army 5267 Private London Regiment
British Army 392028 Private London Regiment
British Army 392028 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Arthur Lewis -
Born 1897
British Army 4840 Private London Regiment
British Army 391744 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Walter John Edward Treasurer -
Died 1917
British Army 3955 Serjeant London Regiment
British Army 391217 Serjeant London Regiment
British Army 391217 Serjeant London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd battalion
More about Herbert William Jeffery -
Died 1917
British Army 3988 Private London Regiment
British Army 391237 Rifleman London Regiment (Quuen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Alfred Wesson -
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 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 -
Born 1895
Died 1917
British Army 2201 Private London Regiment
British Army 390340 Private London Regiment
British Army 390340 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Harold Smith -
Died 1917
British Army 3029 Corporal London Regiment
British Army 390691 Corporal London Regiment
British Army 390691 Corporal London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd battalion
More about Alfred Taylor -
Born 1879
British Army Major London Regiment 1/4 lond Battalion
British Army Major Middlesex Regiment 7th Battalion
More about Harry James Lewis Day -
Died 1917
British Army 6985 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 393209 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 393209 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Edward Fay -
British Army Second Lieutenant Wiltshire Regiment 1/6th Battalion
British Army
British Army 390623 Serjeant London Regiment 2/9th lond Battalion
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More about Frank Canner -
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 1886
Died 1917
British Army 3925 Corporal London Regiment
British Army 391197 Lance Sergeant London Regiment 2nd Battalion Queen Victoria Rifles
More about Henry J B Fisher -
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 -
British Army 2439 Private London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 1st Battalion
British Army Captain London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about H S Prince -
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 1889
Died 1917
British Army 982 Serjeant London Regiment 1/9th lond Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant London Regiment 2/9th lond Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
More about Reginald Browett -
Born 1897
British Army Lieutenant London Regiment
British Army Captain London Regiment
More about Horace Samuelson