11/9/2023 0 Comments British light brigade![]() ![]() 1st Battalion, an amalgamation of the 1st Battalion, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and the 1st Battalion, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment.The regiment has four regular and three reserve battalions, each configured for a specific infantry role: The regiment's 4th battalion was re-subordinated to the Ranger Regiment on 1 December 2021. ![]() In March 2018 the 2nd Battalion returned home after a six-month operational deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Shader. The 1st battalion returned to the Nahri Sarah District of Afghanistan in April 2011, to then be relieved by the 2nd and 5th battalions in October 2011. At the same time the 2nd Battalion was deployed to Sangin and was relieved in due course by the 3rd Battalion. The 4th Battalion provided reinforcement cover for the elections in Afghanistan and took part in Operation Panther's Claw in the Summer of 2009. The 5th Battalion was one of the last British Army units to leave Iraq in May 2009. The 1st Battalion undertook a tour in Afghanistan between October 2008 and April 2009, ground holding and mentoring the Afghan National Army in Helmand Province. The 2nd Battalion, the 3rd Battalion and the 4th Battalion were all deployed in Basra in Iraq during some of the worst fighting of the Iraq War including the withdrawal from Basra Palace in September 2007. ![]() The Rifles was formed to serve as the county regiment of the following counties:
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