He then served as a battalion commander at Fort Benning, Georgia, until 1927.

A small column of armour, motorised infantry, and guns then set off to raid Deir el Abyad and caused a battalion of Italian infantry to surrender.

Alexander commanded his battalion at Third Ypres, where he was slightly wounded, then at Bourlon Wood ( part of the battle of Cambrai ), where his battalion suffered 320 casualties out of 400 men.

He commanded the battalion at Constantinople ( a sensitive posting in the runup to the Chanak Crisis ), then Gibraltar from October 1922, then in London from April 1923 until January 1926, when he was released from that role to attend Staff College, Camberley.

In the spring of 1941, Finland contributed a battalion of volunteers to the Waffen SS, which then fought on the Eastern Front.

He became battalion adjutant in 1909 and then engineer officer at Fort Leavenworth in 1910.

The Royal Welsh ( The Royal Welch Fusiliers, 23rd of Foot ) was then the name of the first battalion of the new regiment, which still recruited across Wales.

In Jarama he completed non commissioned officers ' school, became a lieutenant and a commander of a company, then captain and commander of a battalion.

Under this scheme, single battalion infantry regiments were amalgamated into two battalion regiments, then assigned to a depot and associated recruiting area ( which would usually correspond to all or part of a county ).

Upon completion of the CIC, the newly qualified infantry soldier will then be posted to his battalion.

The company was led by Captain Henry Mouzon and later turned into the battalion and then formed a brigade led by Francis Marion against the British.

It was then garrisoned by some 300 French troops comprising the 5th and 6th companies of the 2nd battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the French Foreign Legion ( 3rd REI ).

In November 1917, the battalion moved to the Italian Front under the command of the then Lt Col Richard O ’ Connor.

He is given a temporary promotion to battalion command and then quickly a brigade command.

The 4th battalion first became a motorized battalion in 1940 and then an armoured battalion in 1943.

In the French news, the Indochina War was presented as a direct continuation of the Korean War where France had fought as a UN French battalion then incorporated in a U. S. unit, which was later involved in the terrible Battle of Mang Yang Pass of June and July 1954.

Thanks to one of his mentors, Dr McAlistair, who was then Surgeon-Captain of the 10th Battalion of the King's ( Liverpool Regiment ), the Liverpool Scottish, he was attached to the battalion as Surgeon-Lieutenant.

Having achieved its objective, the battalion then moved north and took up positions near Le Mesnail to widen the airborne bridgehead formed by the division.

Those companies were then placed into a light infantry battalion under the command of Colonel George Scott of the 40th Regiment.

He and his battalion stalked and attacked the camp early the next morning.

In 1999 Benjamin Ridgley and Gail Ridgley organized a group of Northern Arapaho runners to run from Limon, Colorado to Ethete, Wyoming in memory of their ancestors who were forced to run for their lives after being attacked and pursued by Colonel Chivington and his battalion.

The city was attacked by the Garibaldines and one Piedmontese regular Bersaglieri battalion, and captured.

By 1954, he was a major and led a battalion that attacked a Việt Minh unit, forcing the communists to withdraw from Phan Rang.

One battalion of five hundred men, under Johnson's elder brother, James Johnson, engaged the British force of eight hundred regulars ; simultaneously, Richard Johnson, with the other, now somewhat smaller battalion, attacked the fifteen hundred Indians led by Tecumseh.

Polish soldiers advanced east along the former Prussian Eastern Railway to railroad crossroads 7 kilometres from the town of Chojnice ( Konitz ) where elements of the Polish cavalry attacked and dispersed the German infantry battalion.

The airport was attacked and captured by German fallschirmjägers from 1st battalion of the 1st Regiment, 7th Flieger Division supported by Luftwaffe aircraft on 9 April 1940.

At this crisis a fresh battalion of the Prussian XI corps arrived by the road from Surburg to Gunstett and attacked the French on one flank whilst the guns swept the other.

The commanding officer therefore decided to send a small force to demolish the bridges at Bures and lead the rest of the battalion to a crossroad north of Troarn where it would await more reinforcements before it attacked Troarn itself.

Though the battalion was officially still training in November 1952, when Chinese forces attacked a key location on the Sami-chon River known as " the Hook " the 3rd PPCLI was called to defend the rear of the UN forces.

This mission, again flown by Squadron Leader Neil McDougall in XM597, attacked and destroyed a Skyguard fire-control radar of the army's 601 Anti-aircraft battalion on 3 June, killing four radar operators, an officer, a sergeant and two privates.

After a naval artillery bombardment, the battalion attacked the summit shortly after 5 a. m. on 9 August.

When their battalion was attacked Baskeyfield was badly wounded in the leg, and the rest of the crew were either killed or badly wounded.

The following day the German forces counter attacked, forcing the 6th Battalion back, the bitter fighting saw the battalion lose 16 Officers and 220 other ranks in the first two days.

On 2 April, the 2nd Manchesters attacked Francilly-Selency, in which C Company of the battalion captured a battery of 77 mm guns and a number of machine-guns.

A large German force attacked along the 16th's front, being repulsed in parts, but completely overwhelming the battalion elsewhere.

Minutes later Marine Midshipman ( naval rank equivalent to second lieutenant ) Alejandro Koch's 3rd Platoon, M Coy ( M / BIM5 ) covering the withdrawal of the Marine battalion were attacked by C Company of 40 Commando ( C / 40 Cdo.

On 28 May, two French and one Norwegian battalion attacked and recaptured Narvik from the Germans.

When the government attacked Bor in May and the battalion pulled out, Garang went by an alternate route to join them in the rebel stronghold in Ethiopia.

Then after crawling forward with a sergeant to reconnoitre, he returned, attacked again, and seized another 120 yards of trench to establish communication with the battalion on his left.

Further, on 29 April he commanded a composite battalion, attacked and captured the Oppy line.

The following month, the battalion was engaged in fighting with the Afrika Corps as it attacked into Egypt.

Sibley's battalion attacked south of Berry's and were on the outskirts of Lucy-le-Bocage when Daly made the cry.