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The regiment's 2nd Battalion moved from Alexandria Barracks, Dhekelia after two years in Cyprus to Woolwich Garrison, London, to take up a Public Duties role as of August 2010 with the battalion's corps of drums performing at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace and now attaining the role of the best corps of drums in the British Army.
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The regiment's traditions are preserved by the 2nd Battalion, The Rifles, which is a redesignation of the 1st Battalion, Royal Green Jackets.
Captain J. C. Dunn, a medical officer attached to the regiment's 2nd Battalion during the First World War, compiled a chronicle of that unit's experiences during its more than four years of service in France and Belgium.
In 1881 the 76th Regiment, which shared the same Depot in Halifax as the 33rd ( Duke of Wellington's ) Regiment, was linked to the 33rd, under the Childers Reforms, to become the regiment's 2nd Battalion.
The regiment's 2nd Battalion, which had been reconstituted in 1857, was itself posted to Malta ( in 1863 ) and India ( in 1877 ), and met up with the 1st King's on the island and at Mundra, in the Bombay Presidency.
The regiment's six second-line battalions deployed to the Western Front with the 57th ( 2nd West Lancashire ) Division in February 1917.
Engaged in the battles of the Marne, the Aisne and " First Ypres ", the 2nd Battalion was the regiment's sole representative on the Western Front until the arrival of the Indian Corps, comprising two infantry divisions and cavalry.
While the 2nd Gurkhas became one of the four Gurkha regiments to transfer to the British Army, the regiment's 4th Battalion was transferred to the Indian Army as 5th Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles ( Sirmoor Rifles ) where it exists to this day.
) The Rileys were mobilized with the Canadian Active Service Force on September 1, 1939, reinforced from the 2nd Battalion at the regiment's home station, which began recruiting for home defence in early 1940.
On 10 April 1918 at El Kefr in Egypt, Karanbahadur Rana of the 2nd Battalion became the regiment's second VC recipient after distinguishuing himself in an encounter with Ottoman forces, and was the last VC recipient of the regiment.
Vann then radioed Captain James B. Scanlon — senior adviser to the ARVN 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment — and told him that four U. S. helicopters had either been destroyed or immobilized about southeast of the regiment's position.
The Lion of England is known as the regiment's " Ancient Badge " and provides inspiration for the regimental nickname-first adopted by the 2nd Battalion in August 2009-" Lions of England ".
The regiment's earliest forebears were the 4th, or Kings Own Regiment of Foot, formed in 1680 as the 2nd Tangier Regiment, the fourth Foot regiment in seniority in the British Army.
After the village was captured, ' C ' Squadron pressed on, with 2nd Troop reaching the regiment's objective of the Caen-Bayeux Highway, becoming the only Allied unit to reach its D-Day objective.
The Dublin Fusiliers detachment included the commanding officers of the 1st Dublins and 2nd Dublins, lieutenant-colonels C. N. Perreau and G. S. Higgingson, who had been captured in France during the first year of World War I, and the regiment's Colonel-in-Chief, HRH the Duke of Connaught.
In 1965, this was removed from the regiment's order of battle — Number 1 Troop was used as the nucleus in the formation of 1st Armoured Personnel Carrier Troop during its deployment to Vietnam, while the rest of the squadron was used to form 2nd Cavalry Regiment.
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Its staff included Standartenführer Sylvester Stadler as regimental commander, Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann as commander of the regiment's 1st Battalion and Sturmbannführer Otto Weidinger, who was designated Stadler's successor as regimental commander and was with the regiment for familiarisation purposes.
* Undefeated Welterweight for the First Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers between 1982 and 1984-won titles all the way up to heavyweight and trained others in his regiment's boxing team
They were all the more pronounced because many of those killed and wounded were from the regiment's Territorial Battalion based in the town.
In 1941, during the East African Campaign, Sergeant Nigel Gray Leakey of the 1 / 6th Battalion was awarded the regiment's first and only Victoria Cross ( VC ).
The regiment's 8th Battalion was raised in July 1940 and in 1941 it was also converted to a tank unit becoming 145th Regiment RAC ( 8th DWR ).
In 1877, Her Majesty Queen Victoria, changed the regiment's name to the now more familiar Scots Guards In 1881, the 1st Battalion deployed to Dublin, Ireland and the following year the battalion, as part of the Guard Brigade, took part in an expedition to Egypt, which came about in response to a revolt led by Urabi Pasha, an Egyptian military officer.
He fought with the regiment's 3rd Battalion in the East African campaign against German colonial forces, such as Askari soldiers.
The regiment's 1st Battalion served a seven-month tour of Iraq in 2004 with a second tour following in 2006.
The regiment's 1st Battalion saw service in Iraq in the months immediately following Operation Telic, from June to November 2003.
The Essex heritage continued in the regiment's 3rd Battalion ( also known as ' The Pompadours ').
The regiment's formation was announced on 16 December 2004 by the then Secretary of Defence Geoff Hoon and General Sir Mike Jackson as part of the restructuring of the British Army Infantry-it consists of three regular battalions, plus a territorial battalion, and was created through the merger of three single battalion regiments: The 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment became 1st Battalion, Mercian Regiment.
As amalgamation drew ever nearer, on 19 March at a farewell dinner at Dunster Castle in Somerset, the regiment farewelled its Colonel-in-Chief after HM King Harald V chose to end his role with the end of the regiment's independent existence, while on 28 March, the 1st Battalion held their final parade on British soil.
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The regiment's regimental depot had been moved to Brecon in Wales in 1873 and this, understandably, led to the regiment having close links with South Wales.
The 1st Battalion moved to Canterbury ( the regiment's home base ) in 1980.
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The transfer of the property of the 4th Army ( except for part of the property of the 366th Motor Rifle Regiment of the 23rd Motor Rifle Division captured by Armenian armed formations in 1992 during the regiment's withdrawal from Stepanakert ) and the 49th arsenal was completed in 1992.
Aside from the spike finial, perhaps the most recognizable feature of the Pickelhaube was the ornamental front plate which denoted the regiment's province or state.
Custer's scouts also spotted the regimental cooking fires that could be seen from 10 miles away, disclosing the regiment's position.
The tradition dates from at least 1775, and possibly from the regiment's formation.
Later in the battle, as the rebels were forced from the hill, Stark directed the New Hampshire regiment's fire to provide cover for Colonel Prescott's retreating troops.
* The 56th ( West Essex ) Regiment of Foot, a unit of the British Army that existed from 1755 to 1881, was nicknamed " The Pompadours ", as the purple facing of the regiment's uniform was allegedly Pompadour's favourite colour.
The regiment's nickname, the " Cherry Pickers ", came from an incident during the Peninsular War, in which the 11th Light Dragoons ( as the regiment was then named ) were attacked while raiding an orchard at San Martin de Trebejo in Spain.
The exception was when, in March 1775, a British regiment inflicted the same treatment on Thomas Ditson, a Billerica, Massachusetts man who attempted to buy a musket from one of the regiment's soldiers.
HRH Prince Charles, the Duke of Rothesay, visited the town in April, 2012 to take the salute of the Black Watch during the regiment's homecoming parade, marking its return from a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan.
The Chinese dragon, in gold metal, is indicative of the regiment's service in China during the Boxer Rebellion from 1900 to 1938, of which the period after 1912 was continuous.
As the regiment's uniform was blue in colour at the time, it was nicknamed " the Oxford Blues ", from which was derived the nickname the " Blues.
Pokryshkin was grounded, removed from the regiment's headquarters, and had his Party membership cancelled.
He claimed that the cannon's trigger, positioned at the top of the joystick, was impossible to push without moving the pilot's hand, which made the aircraft deviate from the gunsight, so finally he had his regiment's aircraft rigged so that a single button simultaneously fired cannon and machine guns.
As the regiment's deployment appeared to near completion, protests in the eastern colonies began to intensify, evolving from vocal concerns about self-determination and taxation without representation, to rebellion against Britain in 1775.
Inter-war reductions and reorganisations reduced the regiment's territorial battalions from six to one by 1937.
He rose to Lieutenant in 1770 and served in Minorca from 1771 to 1775 being promoted to Captain on the regiment's return to England.
Jim Day, a reporter with the Pembroke Observer local newspaper from the regiment's hometown, was on the base at the time and was the first to report that Canadian soldiers were being held pending an investigation into the death of a Somali citizen.
The regiment's soldiers were originally recruited from the provinces of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, and it was later garrisoned in Gästrikland.
The regiment's soldiers were originally recruited from the province of Västerbotten, and it was later garrisoned there.
The regiment is responsible for the defence of Blair Castle, the surrounding estate and its inhabitants, but in practice usually only parades twice a year at the regiment's annual inspection when the present Duke comes from his home in South Africa to inspect his men, and the Atholl Gathering Highland Games, which is hosted by the Duke, on the last weekend in May.
The regiment's officers are usually lairds from the areas around Blair Atholl, while other ranks are men with connections either to the local area or to the Duke's estate.
He had two horses killed under him, and had lost two fingers from his left hand, but when the regiment's standard was captured he galloped into the thickest of fighting and recovered it, receiving eight cuts in his face, head, and neck, as well as two bullets in his back and a cut across his forehead that went down to his right eyebrow.
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