The 17th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles), was a unit of Britain's Territorial Force formed in 1908 from...
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Tower Division (category Hundreds and divisions of Middlesex)
battalions (1/4th, 2/4th, 3/4th and 4/4th); while the Poplar and Stepney Rifles were "duplicated" to form the 1/17th, 2/17th and 3/17th. The Tower Hamlets Engineers...
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East End of London (section St Dunstan and Stepney)
units were generally based on more local areas, for instance the Poplar and Stepney Rifles. The First World War saw a proliferation of local battalions,...
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London Regiment (1908–1938) (category Military units and formations in London)
successors of the original regiment (not including, for example, the Artists Rifles or Kensington Regiment (Princess Louise's)), which were part of a number...
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village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Blakeney lies within the Norfolk Coast AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) and the North...
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180th (2/5th London) Brigade (category Military units and formations in London)
Division and served in the Middle East. All battalions of the London Regiment as follows: 2/17th (County of London) Battalion (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) 2/18th...
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Arts and Crafts Battalion The Wearside Battalion The Yeomen Rifles Battalion The 2nd Public Works Battalion City of London Regiment Poplar and Stepney Rifles...
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141st (5th London) Brigade (category Military units and formations established in 1908)
London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles), headquartered in Bow. 18th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (London Irish Rifles), headquartered...
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Rifles)), until November 1917 Maj R. Groves-Raines, until December 1917 Lt-Col F. R. Grimwood (formerly of 1/17th Londons (Poplar and Stepney Rifles))...
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Yeomanry as a Private. He served on the Western Front with the 17th (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment, one of the units of the 5th London...
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140th (4th London) Brigade (category Military units and formations established in 1908)
1916. 1/17th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) joined from 141st (5th London) Bde 1 February 1918. 1/21st (County...
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Miscellaneous List Quartermaster and Captain George John William Townsend, 17th London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles), Territorial Army Captain Bernard...
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George Lindsay (British Army officer) (category Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George)
adjutant of the successor battalion, the 17th London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles), remaining with the battalion until 1911. During this time, he...
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168th (2nd London) Brigade (category Military units and formations established in 1908)
Londons and transferred to the 1st London Brigade, while the 2nd Tower Hamlets and 15th Middlesex combined to form the 17th Londons (Poplar and Stepney Rifles)...
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169th (3rd London) Brigade (category Military units and formations established in 1908)
Regiment (Tower Hamlets Rifles), previously the 17th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) and, more recently, 17th London...
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List of units of the British Army Territorial Force (1908) (category Lists of British Army units and formations)
or raised in that year under the terms of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907, and the associations by which they were administered. The County...
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Regiment (Poplar and Stepney), with its drill hall at 66 Tredegar Road, Bow. The part-time Territorials were mobilised on the outbreak of World War I and the...
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Hackney, London (section Post-war and Olympic Games)
Hackney was a sub-Manor of the Manor of Stepney, and the ancient parish of Hackney was an early daughter parish of Stepney, though the date the Hackney parish...
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the Home Service men of the 17th (Poplar & Stepney Rifles), 18th (London Irish Rifles) and 21st (1st Surrey Rifles) Bns, London Regiment to become 31st...
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Regiment (Poplar & Stepney), with its drill hall at 66 Tredegar Road, Bow. The part-time Territorials were mobilised on the outbreak of World War I and the...
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Betty Ridley (category People from Poplar, London)
Henry Mosley and his wife Mildred Willis. Her father, was then Rector of Poplar, London. He was in 1919 appointed Bishop of Stepney and, in 1928 Bishop...
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and were formed into Provisional Battalions for home defence. The men of the First Surrey Rifles joined with those from the 17th (Poplar & Stepney Rifles)...
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Lewisham, Paddington, Poplar, St Marylebone, St Pancras, Shoreditch, Southwark, Stepney, Stoke Newington, Wandsworth, Westminster, and Woolwich (including...
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is a cemetery located in the Somme region of France commemorating British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in the Battle of the Somme in World War...
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Ancre British Cemetery (category British military memorials and cemeteries)
officers and men from the United Kingdom, primarily from the 36th and Royal Naval Divisions, 17th Sherwood Foresters and 17th King's Royal Rifles. Station...
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is a cemetery located in the Somme region of France commemorating British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in the Battle of the Somme in World War...
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Campbell Greenlees DSO RAMC Capt. Cecil Champagne Herbert-Stepney DSO King's Royal Rifle Corps Maj. and Bt. Lt.-Col. Charles Graeme Higgins DSO Oxfordshire...
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Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School (category Academies in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
Force Volunteer Reserve, [j.] Inns of Court Regiment, [k.] Royal Ulster Rifles, [l.] Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, [m.] 3rd Madras Regiment, [n.] Indian...
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St Andrew Bobola Church, Hammersmith (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
Brabanckich (8th Battalion of Brabant Rifles) 9 Batalion Strzelców Flandryjskich (9th Battalion of Flanders Rifles) 5th Kresowa Infantry Division Pułk Ułanów...
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H. Redpath, Royal Highlanders (Perth) L. Cpl. J. Regan, London Reg. (Stepney) Pte. C. Reid, Seaforth Highlanders (Lossiemouth) Sgt. F. Reid, Royal West...
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