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.

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.

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.

The regiment's name changed according to the name of the colonel commanding until 1751, when it became the 20th Regiment of Foot.

In 2005, following the addition of radiological weapons to its remit, the NBC ( Nuclear, Biological, Chemical ) designation changed to CBRN, with the result that the regiment's name was changed.

This has the coat of arms in the centre of the flag, surrounded by the regiment's name in black lettering.

It is surrounded by a heraldic strap and buckle bearing the regiment's name, all on the Star of the Order of the Thistle.

The first canton of the Guidon contains the regiment's abbreviated name " 1H ".

The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn became colonel-in-chief of the regiment in 1906, and the regiment's name was thus changed to the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn's Own Cape Town Highlanders.

In 1950, when India became a republic, the regiment's name was changed to the 4th Gorkha Rifles as it was decided to adopt the Indian spelling.

As the regiment's name suggests, it is responsible for patrolling the north of Queensland, with its Area of Responsibility covering from Cardwell in north Queensland, north to the Torres Strait, including Cape York and the Gulf Country and west to the Northern Territory border ; in total some.

Battle honours are usually presented in the form of a name of a country, region, or city where the regiment's distinguished act took place, usually together with the year when it occurred.

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.

In 1856 the regiment's name became even closer to that of its current one as it became the Brockville Volunteer Rifle Company.

Citizens in Normandy were surprised to find that soldiers of the Chaudière spoke a type of French very close to that spoken in Normandy, but were puzzled by the regiment's name.

** Seven Tor ( shortening of the regiment's name )

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.

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 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!

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.