Most of the regiment's officers were dissatisfied with the leadership of Procter, but the next in command, Colonel Warburton, refused to countenance any move to deprive Procter of command.

The next action of the regiment was in 1741 during the Hats ' Russian War and the Battle of Villmanstrand, the last of the regiment's major battles.

The regiment's next conflict was the Jacobite Rising of 1745.

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.

After two months of constant patrolling by both battalions, 6 RAR was engaged in the action that would become a defining part of the regiment's war in Vietnam ; the Battle of Long Tan.

He enlisted in April 1940 joining the Monmouths and seeing action from his regiment's landing at D-Day in June 1944 through the advance into north west Europe.

The regiment's first significant action was the Second Battle of Bull Run, where he demonstrated that he was a tenacious fighter.

The badge was invariably set upon a piece of red material known as the Brandywine Flash ( commemorating the regiment's action at the battle of Brandywine Creek in 1777, during the American War of Independence ).

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 major action was during the Second Afghan War, where they were awarded their first battle honour at Peiwar Kotal and Captain John Cook was awarded the Victoria Cross.

The regiment's first airborne action was towards the end of the Second World War, when a reinforced Gurkha Parachute Bn was parachuted into Burma at Elephant Point on May 1, 1945, as part of Operation Dracula.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

Normally, the regiment's training starts at the beginning of May, in preparation for the Atholl Gathering at the end of the month ; however, if new recruits join, they must gain a standard of foot and arms drill before being permitted to parade with the rest of the regiment, which they practice between January and March.

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.

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.

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

Orde Wingate's son, Orde Jonathan Wingate, joined the Honourable Artillery Company after a regular Army career in the Royal Artillery and became the regiment's commanding officer and later regimental colonel.

The King's later fought in the Korean War, earning the regiment's last battle honour.

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.

A member of the regiment would later recall that for the two battalions that returned to Australia ' the first eighteen months of the regiment's existence were harrowing times ...

In 1826, Lord Bingham ( later the 3rd Earl of Lucan ) became the regiment's commanding officer when he bought its lieutenant-colonelcy for the reputed sum of £ 25, 000 pounds.

The regiment's soldiers were originally recruited from the province of Dalarna, and it was later garrisoned there.

The regiment's soldiers were originally recruited on the island of Gotland, and it was later garrisoned there.

The regiment's soldiers were originally recruited from the province of Västmanland, and it was later garrisoned there.

The regiment's soldiers were originally recruited from the province of Uppland, and it was later garrisoned there.

The regiment's soldiers were originally recruited from Kronoberg County, and it was later garrisoned there.

The regiment's soldiers were originally recruited from Jönköping County, and it was later garrisoned there.

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.

The regiment's soldiers were originally recruited from the province of Värmland, and it was later garrisoned in there.

During a charge by the 79th New York Highlanders, later called the Cameron Highlanders, against Confederates massed in the woods, Stevens picked up the regiment's fallen colors and shouted, " Highlanders, my Highlanders, follow your general!