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Great value Victorian military uniform prints of the King's Royal Rifles, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and the Rifle Brigade now part of the Royal Green Jackets, by Victorian artist Harry Payne, published by Cranston Fine Arts, the military art print company.

 

Kings Royal Rifles by Harry Payne.

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Kings Royal Rifles by Harry Payne.

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The Ox and Bucks Light Infantry by Harry Payne.

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The Ox and Bucks Light Infantry by Harry Payne.

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The Rifle Brigade by Harry Payne.

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The Rifle Brigade by Harry Payne.

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THE KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS  Raised in 1755 as the 62nd, (Royal American regiment) and in 1757 becoming the 60th Foot.

Battle Honours

1756 - 1763    Louisbrg, Quebec Martinique,  Havannah, during the Seven years War
1763 - 1764 Pontiac's Conspiracy in North America.
1809    Martinique during the Napoleonic wars
1808 - 1814, Rolica, Vimiera, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentos d'Onoro, Albuhera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse, during the Peninsula War
1848 - 1849   Mooltan, Goojerat, Punjaub   during the Second Sikh War
1851 - 1853  Eighth Kaffir war
1857 - 1858  Delhi, during the Indian Mutiny
1857 - 1860  Taku Forts, Pekin during the Second China War
1877 - 1879  Zulu and Basuto War
1878 -1880 Ali Masjid, Ahmed Khel, Khandahar during the second Afghan War
1880    Tel El Kibir, during the Arabi Pasha revolt
1882 -1884  First Sudan War
1895  Chitral Campaign
1899 - 1902  Defence of Ladysmith, relief of Ladysmith during the Boer war
1914 - 1918  Mons, Marne, Ypres 1914, 1915 , 1917, 1918, Somme,1916, 1918,  Arras 1917, 1918 Messines 1917, 1918  Epehy, Canal du Nord, Selles Sambre
1939 - 1945  Calais 1940, Rhineland, Egyptian Frontier, 1940,  Sidi Rezegh 1941, Alem el Halfa, El Alamein,  Italy 1943, 45,  Greece 1941, 1944 - 45

VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS  TWENTY  MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENTS HAVE BEEN AWARDED THE VICTORIA CROSS,  Eight in the Indian Mutiny,  one in the Zulu and Basuto war, one in Egypt, one in the Sudan war, one in The Boer war, Ten in World War One and One in the Second World War.

The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Regiment, (43rd and 52nd) became in 1958 The 1st Green Jackets  The King's Royal Rifle Corps became the 2nd Green Jackets,  and The Rifle Brigade became the 3rd Green jackets.

THE OXFORDSHIRE AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY (43RD AND 52ND)

Raised in 1741 as the 54th Foot, becoming in 1748 The 43rd of Foot, and in 1755 changed to the 54th Foot and in 1757 the 52nd Foot.  

In 1881 These two Regiments became the 1st and 2nd battalions of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry and again changing in 1908 to the Oxfordhsire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

Battle Honours shown on standards

1756 - 1763,  Quebec, (1759)  Martinique (1762)  Havannah during the Seven Years War
1789 - 1791 Mysore  during the Third Mysore War 
1790 - 1793   Hindoostan in India
1793 - 1802   Martinique during the French Revolutionary Wars
1808 - 1814  Vimiera, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentos d'Onoro, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, . Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse during the Peninsula war
1815,  Battle of Waterloo
1851 - 1853    South Africa during the Eighth Kaffir War
1857 - 1858  Delhi, during the Indian Mutiny
1863 - 1865  New Zealand
1899 - 1902  relief of Kimberley, Paardeburg, during the Boer War
1914 - 1918  Mons, Ypres, Langemarck, Nonne Bosschen, Somme, Cambrai, Piave, Doiran, Ctesiphon, defence of Kut Al Amara during the First World War
1939 - 1945   Cassel, Ypres Comines Canal, Normandy Landing, Pegasus Bridge, Reichswald, Rhine, Enfidaville, Salerno, Anzio, Gemmano Ridge.

VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS   Six members of the regiments have been awarded the Victoria Cross,  three during the Indian Mutiny, one during the Third Maori War and Two during the First World War

THE RIFLE BRIGADE (THE PRINCE CONSORT'S OWN)  raised in 1800 as the Rifle Corps,  becoming in 1802 to 1805 The 95th of foot.

Battle Honours  

1793 - 1802  Copenhagen during the  French Revolutionary Wars
1807  Monte Video  during the Expedition against the Spanish in Brazil
1808 - 1814    Rolica, Vimiera, Corunna, Busaco, Barrosa, Fuentos d'Onoro Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse during the Peninsula War
1815     Battle of Waterloo
1846 - 1847  Seventh Kaffir war
1851 - 1853   Eighth Kaffir war
1854 - 1855  Alma, Inkerman, Sebastopol  during the Crimean war
1857 - 1858  Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny
1873 - 1874  Ashantee, during the Ashantee war
1878 - 1880 Ali Masjid during the second Afghan war
1885 - 1887  Third Burma War
1896 - 1898   Khartoum,  Sudan campaign
1899 -1902  Defence of Ladysmith and relief of Ladysmith during the Boer War
1914 - 1918  Le Cateau, Marne, Neuve Chappelle, Ypres, Soome Arras, Messines, Cambrai, Hindenburg Line, Macedonia
1939 - 1945  Calais 1940, Neda Fomm, Sidi Rezegh, Alem el Halfa, El Alamein, in North Africa in 1940 - 1943,  Cassino, Capture of Perugia  both in Italy 1943, 1945

VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS, Twenty Four  Members of the regiments have been awarded the Victoria Cross,  Eight during the Crimean war, Four in the Indian Mutiny, One in Somaliland in 1903, seven during the first world war, one during the second world war 

 

 

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