* 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.

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.

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.

British Army regiments typically have an honorary " colonel ", often a member of the Royal Family or a prominent retired military officer with connections to the regiment, who functions as a kind of patron or guardian of the regiment's interests in high government circles.

As a result of the regiment's initial service during the Iraq war, the Royal Yeomanry was in 2005 awarded the theatre honour " Iraq 2003 ", the first battle honour the regiment has won since its formation, and the first-so far the only-battle honour awarded to a Territorial Army regiment since the Second World War.

The reorganisation and renaming to a " life grenadier " title of honour was conducted in regard to the regiment's achievements during Gustav III's Russian War.

The reorganisation and renaming to a " life grenadier " title of honour was conducted in regard to the regiment's achievements during Gustav III's Russian War.

The source of the regiment's name is uncertain but they were part of the Highland Watch originally raised on the orders of Charles II in 1667 but later disbanded.

The regiment's Colonel-in-Chief is Elizabeth II.

The regiment's goat is a descendant of one presented to the unit by Queen Elizabeth II in 1955 ( which, in turn, was the descendant of a goat given to Queen Victoria from the Shah of Iran in 1844 ).

The exhibits include artifacts and photographs displaying the regiment's history in various campaigns, include the Crimean War, the North-West Frontier of India, the Boer War, World War I and World War II.

The regiment's conduct during the war compelled Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer -- a distinguished British officer during World War II and a man instrumental in the defeat of the CTs during the Emergency — to state that, " there has been no better regiment in Malaya during the ten years of the emergency and very few as good ".

Part of the Standing army of King Charles II, the regiment's intended role was to help to garrison the Colony of Tangier, but that was evacuated four years later.

Queen Elizabeth II, the regiment's commanding officer, opened the museum in 1989.

The regiment's original Guidon was presented in 1967 by Queen Elizabeth II during a ceremony on Parliament Hill.

The regiment's original constituents participated in many operations, including the Vimy, the Hindenburg Line in World War I and the Normandy landing, Boulogne, and the Gothic Line in World War II.

The displays show the regiment's participation in area military engagements in the 18th and 19th centuries, and overseas in World War I, World War II, for peacekeeping and other operations.

** Plough Jockeys: from World War II, bestowed because of the regiment's rural roots

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.

The regiment's only Colonel-in-Chief was King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

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.

He was discharged in August, at the end of the regiment's 3 month enlistment.

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.

Dressed in his brigadier's uniform, Enoch Powell was buried in his regiment's plot in Warwick Cemetery, Warwickshire, ten days later, after a family funeral service at Westminster Abbey and a public service at St. Margaret's, Westminster.

As armies became trained and adopted set formations, each regiment's ability to keep its formation was potentially critical to its, and therefore its army's, success.

In the Boer War and throughout the First World War, the army officially called the regiment " The Royal Welsh Fusiliers " but the archaic " Welch " was officially restored to the regiment's title in 1920 under Army Order No. 56.

A month later he was appointed commander of the regiment's 241st squadron.

In 1840, the regiment was named after Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's consort, who later became the regiment's Colonel.

It was there that he returned to music, playing in the regiment's military band in 1921.

He failed to see any action during his time in India, missing out on his regiment's turn at the frontier, as he was in England on sick leave for a hernia operation.

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.

In the end the hotel was captured and in it were found a dead Soviet regimental commander and all the regiment's papers.

The defensive mission of this new battalion was changed 19 – 20 October to closely support the urban assault, participating as the depleted regiment's missing third battalion.

On September 9 he was made the regiment's major, and on October 8 he became its lieutenant colonel.

The most notable battle was the regiment's decisive role on July 2, 1863, in the Battle of Gettysburg, where it was stationed on Little Round Top at the extreme left of the Union line.

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 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.

They were all the more pronounced because many of those killed and wounded were from the regiment's Territorial Battalion based in the town.

The Otago and Canterbury regiments captured Bauchop's Hill, which was named after the Otago regiment's commander, Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Bauchop who was killed during the attack.

The 33rd was involved in heavy fighting during the Battle of Waterloo and at the end of the battle the regiment's casualties numbered 11 officers and 128 men killed or wounded.

During one attack, the regiment's commanding officer Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Desbrisay was killed.

At the battle of Spotsylvania the regiment's colonel was killed and Otis assumed command.

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.

The regiment's greatest loss of life came on 20 July 1982 when seven RGJ bandsmen were killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb which exploded during a public concert featuring the music from Oliver!

It was involved in the first engagement of that conflict, at Mudki ( Moodkee ), where the regiment's commanding officer, Lieutenant Charles Digby Dawkins, was killed.

Notable events included a Victoria Cross for Captain Francis Octavius Grenfell for his actions in saving the guns of 119th Battery, Royal Field Artillery on 24 August 1914 ( he was later killed in action on 24 May 1915, as was his twin brother, Riversdale, a yeomanry officer who attached to 9th Lancers ), and the regiment's participation in the final " lance on lance " action of the First World War on 7 September 1914 at Moncel in which Lieutenant Colonel David Campbell led a charge of two troops of B Squadron and overthrew a squadron of the 1st Guard Dragoons.

Besides their colonel and second-in-command, the 69th sustained losses of 41 officers and men killed, 85 wounded and 60 prisoners. Thomas Francis Meagher, Captain of the regiment's Zouave company, was promoted to colonel.