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regiment's and life
Displays focus on the regiment's activities since its founding in 1633 up to contemporary Army life.
The regiment's base, located on the southern edge of town around Tapa estate's main building, played a considerable role in the town's life and contributed to the town's continued development.
Because one of the regiment's antecedents was the life regiment of Queen Ingrid, the Queen Mother, the regiment had both Prince Henrik's and the late Queen Mother's cyphers on its Regimental Colour.
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 regiment's first Victoria Cross came during operations in Somalia during the Third Somaliland Campaign in 1903, when then Captain William George Walker risked his life in an attempt to save the life of another officer who had been wounded during earlier fighting.

regiment's and came
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 regiment's first Victoria Cross came two years later in July 1917 awarded to Sergeant Robert Bye.
The regiment's next action came a month later, in September at the Battle of Harlem Heights.
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.
Elsewhere in 1964 the regiment's alliance with the Canadian Winnipeg Grenadiers came to an end, ending an alliance that had existed since 1933.
The regiment's name came from the dark tartan that they wore and from its role to " watch " the Highlands.
In 1966 the regiment's short existence came to an end when it, along with the three other remaining regiments of the Home Counties Brigade, was amalgamated to form The Queen's Regiment, one of the new ' large ' regiments that were formed in the 1960s.
The regiment's brief existence came to an end when it amalgamated with three other battalions of the East Anglian Brigade on 1 September 1964, to form the ' large ' Royal Anglian Regiment.
This came about soon after the regiment's formation, when a competition was held to design an appropriate badge.
The regiment's grimmest hour came during the Pakistani invasion of Kashmir in 1947.
The regiment's first major action came during the Second Afghan War, although in this time it also served on the North-West Frontier and during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.
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.
The regiment's first overseas service came during the Second Opium War against China.

regiment's and on
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.
Next he took command of his regiment's first battalion and spent three years on the North-West Frontier.
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.
** Axl Rose of Guns N ' Roses has the regiment's emblem and motto tattooed on his left arm.
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.
Part of the 12th Chasseurs had been sent to Montmédy to protect the royal family on its flight to Varennes, making it necessary for the regiment to defend its honor and loyalty to the Republic ; Murat and the regiment's adjutant made a speech to the assembly at Toul to that effect.
some regimental recruitment criteria are unique to India with some regiment's recruitment pool falling on ethnicity, caste or religion such as the Gorkha Regiment, Jat Regiment, Rajput Regiment and Sikh Regiment respectively.
The colours had many of the regiment's battle honours emblazoned on it.
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.
Ten representative battle honours were chosen for display on the regiment's colours:
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.
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.
To support the ill-fated Nivelle Offensive, Britain initiated the Battle of the Scarpe, in the Arras area on 9 April, which involved the regiment's 11th, 13th, and Liverpool Pals battalions.
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.
In September 1915, just before the Ottoman Empire entered the war on Germany's side, six of the regiment's battalions joined the Egypt garrison.
Buttons are worn in two rows of four, reflecting the regiment's position as the fourth most senior Guards regiment, and the collar is adorned with a shamrock on either side.
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.
The way the march is performed depends on the regiment's nationality.
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.
The badge appears not only as a cap badge, but is also seen on the regiment's drums, as well as the Drum Major's Sash and Regimental Pipe Banners.

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