King's Royal Rifle Corps

62nd (Royal American) Regiment 60th (Royal American) Regiment Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps King's Royal Rifle Corps
Cap badge of the King's Royal Rifle Corps
Active	1756–1966
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Rifles
Role	Light infantry
Size	4 Battalions in peacetime (28 during the Great War)
Garrison/HQ	Peninsula Barracks, Winchester
Nickname(s)	60th Rifles Royal Americans The Jaggers[1]
Motto(s)	Celer et Audax (Swift and Bold)
March	Lützow's Wild Hunt[2]
Anniversaries	Christmas Day (Formation)
Engagements	French and Indian War American Revolutionary War Napoleonic Wars Anglo-Egyptian War Second Boer War First World War Second World War

The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American Regiment during the phase of the Seven Years' War in North America known in the United States as 'The French and Indian War.' Subsequently numbered the 60th Regiment of Foot, the regiment served for more than 200 years throughout the British Empire. In 1958, the regiment joined the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and the Rifle Brigade in the Green Jackets Brigade and in 1966 the three regiments were formally amalgamated to become the Royal Green Jackets. The KRRC became the 2nd Battalion, Royal Green Jackets. On the disbandment of the 1st Battalion, Royal Green Jackets in 1992, the RGJ's KRRC battalion was redesignated as the 1st Battalion, Royal Green Jackets, eventually becoming 2nd Battalion, The Rifles in 2007.