Queen's Edinburgh Rifles
The Queen's Edinburgh Rifles was a brigade of Rifle Volunteers raised in the City of Edinburgh in 1859. It later formed two battalions of the Royal Scots, which fought in World War I at Gallipoli, in Palestine and on the Western Front. The two battalions combined between the world wars before being converted into an air defence regiment of the Royal Artillery (RA). This served in Anti-Aircraft Command during World War II and continued in the postwar Territorial Army (TA) until 1961, when its successors were converted into Royal Engineers (RE).
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Rifle Volunteers
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World War II
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Queen's Edinburgh Rifles
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1961-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
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