Greetings.
I don’t believe that an apostrophe is needed, it is grammatically incorrect.
An apostrophe denotes either a missing letter, as in wouldn’t, or to indicate that an item belongs to something, someone or a number of things or people.
Both Artists and Rifles are plurals.
If the Rifles belonged to a single Artist, there would be an apostrophe between t and s, if the rifles belonged to more than one Artist, the apostrophe would be after the last s.
Neither the badge nor title of the unit indicate that the Rifles belong to anybody in particular.
The title denotes that it is a Rifles unit comprised of Artists; much the same as Finsbury Rifles shows that it is a Rifles unit comprised of men from (initially) the Finsbury area.
Whereas Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, (with an apostrophe between t and s) shows that the Regiment belongs to him.
Therefore, an apostrophe is not required.
Regards.
Brian
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