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.

During the regiment's first battle, Confederate soldiers charge, but are repelled.

At first, the French had some success, wiping out two companies of the 79th Highland Regiment and killing the regiment's commander, Lieut-Colonel Philips Cameron.

Next he took command of his regiment's first battalion and spent three years on the North-West Frontier.

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 ).

In this case, the regiment's commander had not gone in the first wave and so was able to make the decision to cancel.

The regiment's first Victoria Cross came two years later in July 1917 awarded to Sergeant Robert Bye.

The first Duke of Wellington died in 1852 and in the following year Queen Victoria, in recognition of the regiment's long ties to him, ordered that the regiment's title be changed to the 33rd ( or The Duke of Wellington's ) Regiment.

The regiment's first engagement occurred in July, when it captured an outpost situated in gardens outside Delhi.

The Boer War provided the first opportunity for the regiment's volunteer battalions to serve overseas with regular forces, supplying individual detachments and service companies.

Lance-Corporal Tombs became the regiment's first Victoria Cross recipient of the war for assisting wounded soldiers during the battle.

Ten of the regiment's battalions were active in the first stage, the Battle of Pilkem Ridge ( 31 July – 2 August ).

In Fredericia, the Danish 8th Brigade's 20th Regiment was involved in a bigger skirmish: the regiment's first Company were captured near Snoghøj, on the mainland near where the ( old ) Lillebælt bridge is now.

Both battalions saw active service in the Crimean War, with the 1st fighting at the battles of Alma and Inkerman ( 1854 ), and both fighting in the Siege of Sevastopol ( 1854-5 ), where the regiment's first VC was won.

The actions of the regiment during the initial landing also gained the division its second Medal of Honor, when Private George J. Peters posthumously received the award after charging a German machine gun nest and eliminating it with rifle fire and grenades, allowing his fellow paratroopers to gather their equipment and capture the regiment's first objective.

On the regiment's first battlefield on Blackshard, Hlaine Larkin coins the nickname " Gaunt's Ghosts ".

On 20 October 1871, the first regular Canadian army units were created, in the form of two batteries of garrison artillery ; thus, that date is considered the regiment's birthday.

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.

Also in 1952, Queen Elizabeth succeeded to the throne, and became the regiment's fifth Colonel-in-Chief since the first, King Edward VII, in 1901.

The regiment's first guidon ( the oldest in Canada ) was presented in 1828 by the Earl of Dalhousie and currently resides in the RCH armoury.

The South African War of 1899-1902 saw the 6th and 17th Hussars dispatch volunteer cadres which formed the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles, subsequently winning the regiment's first battle honour.

Although the regiment's first battle honour is for the Battle of Blenheim, it did not take a notable part in any major battle of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, but did serve in the Crimean War.

The regiment's first stand of colours was presented by Lady Glenlyon on behalf of the Queen in 1845.

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.

During its existence, the deployments of the regiment's battalions were primarily to Northern Ireland ( NI ), especially during the more turbulent times of the 1970s and 1980s, attempting to keep the peace between the opposing Catholic and Protestant factions, and taking part in anti-terrorist operations against the numerous paramilitary organisations: the regiment lost nine men during its many tours of NI ; however, its battalions did deploy to many overseas postings during the regiment's existence, including many deployments to West Germany as part of the British Army of the Rhine ( BAOR ).

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.

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.

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.

Prior to 1914, the regiment's field service uniforms reflected its constabulary role and consisted of a dark blue Jersey and puttees, khaki shorts and a khaki fez cover with integral foldable cloth peak and neck flap.

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.

A regiment's colours embody its spirit and service, as well as its fallen soldiers.

Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment uniforms were nearly identical to those of the those of ( NVA ) and were distinguished primarily by the dark red MfS service color of its insignia and by an honorary cuffband on the left sleeve bearing the regiment's name.

At the behest of George I, to honour the regiment's service at Sheriffmuir, the Queen's became the King's Regiment of Foot, with the White Horse of Hanover ( symbol of the Royal Household ) as its badge.

A memorial sculpted by William Goscombe John to commemorate the regiment's service in Afghanistan, Burma, and South Africa was erected in St John's Gardens, Liverpool and unveiled by Field Marshal Sir George White on 9 September 1905.

The first period of sustained operational service began with the regiment's baptisim of fire in Korea in 1950 and continued until the withdrawal of combat units from Vietnam in 1972.

The regiment's 1st Battalion saw service in Iraq in the months immediately following Operation Telic, from June to November 2003.

It is more accurate to state that the RCD wear the springbok as a recognition for the regiment's sterling service in South Africa.

The regiment's battalions have a distinguished record of military service spanning the rise and decline of British power in South Asia, both World Wars and post independence Pakistan.

* Battle honour crests, for instance, the crest of an elephant denotes a regiment's service at the Battle of Assaye in 1803

The regiment's most notable service came in the New Mexico Campaign in the spring of 1862, in which they helped repulse the advance of the Army of New Mexico under Henry Hopkins Sibley at the battles of Glorieta Pass and Peralta.

Many of the regiment's soldiers also saw service on the Western Front while attached to other units.

Its uniforms were nearly identical to those of the those of National People's Army ( NVA ) and were distinguished primarily by the dark red MfS service color of its insignia and by an honorary cuffband on the left sleeve bearing the regiment's name.

The regiment's crest figures prominently and incorporates 2 rams, recalling the unit's service in the infantry, and 2 fleurs-de-lys, symbolizing its Francophone status.

The end of the national service scheme in 1972 resulted in a sharp decline in the regiment's strength ; 92 personnel remained at the end of the year.

Since standing down from federal service and returning to New York, the regiment's activities have included annual Infantry training and qualification at Fort A. P.

This was the regiment's last major activity in Ireland, and they were ordered to prepare for foreign service in December.