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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 1885
Died 1917
British Army 6250 Private London Regiment
British Army 392599 Private London Regiment
British Army 392599 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd Battalion
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Born 1895
Died 1917
British Army 5812 Private London Regiment
British Army 392313 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Edward George Morrill -
Died 1917
British Army 415260 Private London Regiment
British Army 415260 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 2nd battalion
More about Frank Massey -
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 -
British Army 5153 Private London Regiment 9 lond Battalion
British Army 391954 Rifleman London Regiment 2nd Battaliom
More about Thomas J Kingswell -
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 -
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 -
British Army Captain London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant London Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Robert Boyd Crosbie -
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 1896
Died 1917
British Army 5258 Private London Regiment 9th lond Battalion
British Army 392019 Rifleman London Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Leonard Harry Hudson Clark -
British Army T/293639 Private Royal Army Service Corps
British Army A/202231 Private King's Royal Rifle Corps
British Army 620548 Private Royal Engineers
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More about Patrick Fallon -
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 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 -
British Army 5126 Corporal London Regiment
British Army 391934 Corporal London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Allan K Calder -
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 1891
Died 1917
British Army Captain London Regiment
British Army Captain Queen Victoria Rifles 2nd Battalion
More about Geoffrey Foster Griffith -
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 -
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 1882
Died 1917
British Army 5286 Private London Regiment
British Army 392043 Rifleman London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) 2nd Battalion
More about Stephen Smith -
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