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Liverpool Rifles
6th Bn (Rifles) King's Regiment
38th (King's) Searchlight Regiment, RA
635 (King's Regiment) Regiment, RA
573 (King's Regiment) HAA Regiment, RA
The cap badge of the Liverpool Rifles.
ActiveFrom 19 August 1859
CountryLiverpool Rifles United Kingdom
Branch Territorial Force
RoleInfantry, searchlight, artillery
Part ofKing's Regiment (Liverpool)
Garrison/HQPrinces Park Barracks, Liverpool
EngagementsWestern Front
The Blitz
Operation Diver
Operation Doomsday
Battle honoursSouth Africa 1900–01

The Liverpool Rifles was a unit of the Territorial Army, part of the British Army, formed in Lancashire as a 'Rifle Volunteer Corps' (RVC) in 1859, becoming a battalion of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) in 1881. It saw action on the Western Front in the First World War and later became a searchlight unit of the Royal Artillery in the Second World War.

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