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* Po Valley: Following a long and hard winter in the snow-bound Apennines, the campaign to drive the Germans out of the rest of Italy, the fighting entered the Po Valley, and the Carbineers once again played a significant part in operations from 19 to 30 April 1945.

Carbineers and May
The Carbineers was active on the Cassino line for several weeks until 21 May.

Carbineers and was
Soon thereafter, two survivors from Isandlwana Lieutenant Gert Adendorff of the 1st / 3rd NNC and a trooper from the Natal Carbineers arrived bearing the news of the defeat and that a part of the Zulu impi was approaching the station.
Following the declaration of the Republic of South Africa in 1961, the " Royal " title was dropped from the names of army regiments like the Natal Carbineers and the Durban Light Infantry, and the Crown removed from regimental badges.
According to that account, Morant was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Bushveldt Carbineers ( BVC ) on 1 April 1901.
Hunt, who was still ' signed on ', returned to South Africa to take command of a regiment in the Bushveldt Carbineers, whereas Morant ( who had intended that his military service come to an end ) followed him shortly after not having found the forgiveness he sought in England.
George Ramsdale Witton ( 1874 1942 ) was a Lieutenant in the Bushveldt Carbineers in the Boer War in South Africa.
The court-martial of six officers of the Bushveldt Carbineers ( BVC ), an irregular British force in the Boer War, was based on charges asserting that, between July and September 1901, a Lieutenant Harry Morant had incited the co-accused, Lts Handcock, Witton and others under his command to murder some twenty people, including the Boer commando Visser, a group of eight Boer POWs, Boer civilian adults and children, and the German missionary Heese.
The vast bulk of this testimony was uncorroborated or hearsay evidence obtained during the preceding Court of Enquiry, much of it apparently gathered from disaffected former Carbineers who, if Witton is to be believed, harboured considerable animosity towards Morant and Handcock.
But according to Nick Bleszynski, the order was common knowledge among the Bushveldt Carbineers and other regiments well before Morant's arrival at Fort Edward in mid-1901 and it was widely known among the troops that other units of British forces in South Africa had shot Boer prisoners, for example the Canadian Scouts avenging the death of Major " Gat " Howard.
Natal Carbineers traces its routes to 1854 but was raised on 15 January 1855 and gazetted on 13 March of that year.
In September 1899, the Natal Carbineers was mobilized for active service in the British campaign to subdue the Boer republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
* Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal: From 2 November 1899 until 28 February 1900 the bulk of the Natal Carbineers was besieged in Ladysmith, and played a prominent part in that famous siege.
The Carbineers were present at the decisive battle at Mhome Gorge on 10 June, where the back of the uprising was broken.
The Natal Carbineers, then known as the 1st and 2nd Mounted Rifles, was mobilized on 23 August 1914.
* El Wak: The first major engagement of the East African campaign for the Carbineers was fought on 16 December 1940 at the Italian border post of El Wak, on the northern Kenyan frontier with Italian Somaliland.
* Amba Alagi: Italian resistance in East Africa was finally crushed when the mountain fortress of Amba Alagi, between Dessie and Asmara, was successfully stormed by British and Commonwealth forces that included the 1st Royal Natal Carbineers.
* Taieb el Essem: The Carbineers was a component of the 1st Brigade force that held a defensive box south of Sidi Rezegh.
* Qattara: On 26 27 July 1942 a detachment of the Carbineers was involved in this subsidiary action in the Alamein defensive battles of July 1942.
* Bagno Regio: Bagno Regio was a hilltop village north of Rome, and on the night of 12 13 June 1944 elements of the Carbineers scaled a precipitous rock face to effect its capture.
* Monte Stanco: On 10 October, at Monte Stanco, the Carbineers suffered one of its few reverses of the Italian campaign, when it was compelled to abandon this hard-won feature.
* Monte Pezza: Monte Pezza was the next peak in the Gothic Line to be tackled by the 1st Royal Natal Carbineers, on 17 October.
); during the Battle of Delville Wood, which was fought on 14 20 July 1916 ; and at Gelib in Italian Somaliland in 1941, during the infamous " White Flag Incident " that claimed the lives of 13 Royal Natal Carbineers.

Carbineers and on
Three Australian Army officers of the Bushveldt Carbineers serving in South Africa during the Second Boer War ( 1899 1902 ) are on trial for murder.
They were also charged with the murder of Trooper Van Beuren, a Boer member of the Carbineers suspected of being a spy, whom Handcock stated had been killed by Boers while they were out on patrol.
In 1953, King George VI conferred the title Royal on two Regiments being the Royal Durban Light Infantry and the Royal Natal Carbineers, as a recognition of their seniority and service.
Their baptism of fire came during the Langalibalele Rebellion in 1873 where they suffered their first casualties in action in the Drakensberg and during the Anglo-Zulu War, the Carbineers suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Isandlwana on the 22nd January 1879.
The Natal Carbineers participated in the invasion of Zululand in January 1879, and on 22 January, 23 members of the Regiment perished in the famous battle of Isandlwana.
The 1st Royal Natal Carbineers landed at Taranto, Italy, on 20 April 1944, just in time for the latter phases of the battles for Cassino.

Carbineers and
* El Alamein: The Carbineers played a small but eventful part in the huge and decisive Second Battle of El Alamein in October November 1942.

Carbineers and Regiment
The Natal Carbineers Regiment is an Infantry regiment of the South African Army.
In 1913, the Regiment s two ‘ wings became known as the First and Second Mounted Rifles ( Natal Carbineers ) and in 1934 they re-assumed the name 1st and 2nd Natal Carbineers.

Carbineers and .
His Natal Carbineers had abandoned him, but his loyal Basuto troopers stood by him.
On his return from leave, Morant joined one of these irregular units, the Bushveldt Carbineers, a 320-strong regiment that had been formed in February 1901 under the command of an Australian, Colonel R. W.
Accordingly, officers of the Carbineers should be, and up until now have been, given the widest possible discretion in their treatment of the enemy .< p > Now, I don't ask for proclamations condoning distasteful methods of war, but I do say that we must take for granted that it does happen.
The Bushveldt Carbineers ( BVC ) were a short-lived, multinational mounted infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in South Africa during the Second Boer War.
Major Robert Lenehan enlisted him in the Bushveldt Carbineers with a commission as Lieutenant.
In addition, many locally raised units such as the Ceylon Mounted Rifles, Cape Mounted Rifles and Natal Carbineers fought as mounted infantry.
Such units included the Bushveldt Carbineers which gained notoriety as the unit in which Harry " Breaker " Morant and Peter Handcock served in before their court martial and execution for war crimes.
We were out fighting the Boers, not sitting comfortably behind barb-wire entanglements ; we got them and shot them under Rule 303 ," referring to the. 303 calibre Lee-Enfield rifles the Carbineers carried.

entered and fray
Each pledged to come to each other's aid if a new party ( presumably the US ) entered the fray.
While there, Oswald entered into a fray between the Domkapitel of Brixen and the new Prince-Bishop of Brixen, Ulrich Putsch, who was a friend of Martin Jäger, a confidante of Count Friedrich, and soon-to-be bishop chancellor of the County of Tyrol.
On July 19, a column of U. S. cavalry soldiers entered the fray.
Tshekedi Khama II, the brother of Seretse Khama Ian Khama, had also entered the political fray by taking over the parliamentary seat of his brother in Serowe.
Liverpool and local rivals Everton entered the fray, but were unwilling to match Madrid's asking price.
More core cast departures took place as Chrissie Latham, Margo Gaffney and Erica Davidson all left the series, and a major new player, the callous, menacing and brutal double murderess Nola McKenzie ( Carole Skinner ), entered the fray as a new adversary for Bea and a partner in crime for Joan, becoming the first prisoner to actively collude with the Freak, running contraband rackets and plotting to seize power from the " good " top dog.
This letter does not mention Riothamus by name, however, and ( depending on how the chronology of Sidonius ' letters is reconstructed ), it is possible that Riothamus and his forces were not the direct subject of Arvandus ' message to Euric, as Arvandus might have already been under arrest and on his way to Rome before Riothamus had even entered the fray against the Goths.
An Andorian vessel, commanded by Shran, unexpectedly entered the fray and engaged the Reptilian vessel, which provided enough cover for the Humans to board the Xindi weapon and destroy it.
France, which in any case laid claim to territory in the southern Rif, realized that allowing another North African colonial power to be defeated by the native Berbers would set a great threat to their controlled territories, and after Abd el-Krim invaded French-occupied Morocco in April 1925, entered the fray.
Issa ran on the second point, and then several other candidates, one of whom was actor / bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, entered the fray.
In the summer of 1828 Robert Barnwell Rhett, soon to be considered the most radical of the South Carolinians, entered the fray over the tariff.
Later, Roger Penrose entered the fray, providing somewhat novel anti-mechanist arguments in his books, The Emperor's New Mind ( 1989 ) and Shadows of the Mind ( 1994 ).
DMK entered the electoral fray rather unsuccessfully in 1957 with even senior leader V. R. Nedunchezhiyan losing from Salem although M Karunanidhi won after initially having opposed all-Indian government and later supporting only those parties which promised to help its secession from India cause.
Advice columnists entered the fray during the 1980s and 1990s with both Ann Landers and Dear Abby warning parents of the horrors of candy tampering.
More battalions entered the fray throughout the offensive.
Sociologists entered the fray with empirical research on these novel social conflicts.
Barclays Global Investors, a subsidiary of Barclays plc, entered the fray in 1996 with World Equity Benchmark Shares, or WEBS, subsequently renamed iShares MSCI Index Fund Shares.
With the help of influential friends he quickly established a flourishing law practice, and shortly after he entered the fray as a delegate to the Continental Congress ( 1780 81 ).
The council supported the Sport and Sport President unanimimente not entered the fray.
The American artillery also entered the fray after having previously been rendered useless due to the dampness settling into the powder.
In continental football, IF Elfsborg entered the fray in the first qualifying round of the Europa League.
The cavalry, lances extended, then entered the fray.
When it became apparent that no prominent Republicans were going to challenge popular incumbent Tennessee governor Ned McWherter for re-election in 1990, Henry entered the fray, winning the primary election easily, apparently with the understanding that his chances of defeating McWherter in the general election were incredibly low, and also that McWherter, a moderate who was also supported by many prominent Republicans including many of their major contributors and fund raisers, would control the vast majority of all finanicial contributions made to the race.
As Cúchulainn lay wounded after his combat with Ferdiad, Cethern entered the fray on his chariot, stark naked and armed only with a silver spike.
Norge entered into the fray shortly after and began to fire on the destroyers, but her marksmen were inexperienced and she did not hit the Germans ships before being sunk by a salvo of torpedoes from the German destroyers.

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