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.

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

* The Thin Red Line ( 1908 )-named after his regiment's nickname, acquired in the Crimean War, when " the thin red streak tipped with a line of steel " of the 93rd Highlanders ( Argylls ) held back the Russian advance.

** Shino Boys: a First World War nickname given to The RCR by soldiers of other units, noting the regiment's high standards of dress and deportment

Following Binh Ba, the remainder of the regiment's commitment to Vietnam would be characterised largely by ' Pacification ' and ' Vietnamisation ', with an emphasis on training South Vietnamese troops, ambushing and patrolling, so as to protect the local population.

Each year, all of the companies in the battalion took part in a competition, consisting of sports and military skills tests, to win the right to be named ' King Harald's Company ', after the regiment's Colonel-in-Chief.

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.

From the regiment's association with Major General Sir Isaac Brock comes the scallop shell on the cap badge.

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.

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'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.

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.

Despite being severely outnumbered, the allied troops held their ground, becoming a marvel of each regiment's tradition and tenacity.

The regiment had a beer called Havercake Ale named in their honour by the Timothy Taylor Brewery, Leeds, to mark the regiment's tercentenary.

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.

Members of arms such as the Adjutant General's Corps and Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers serving on attachment to other units often wear that regiment's beret or headdress but with their own Corps capbadge.

The British adopted the practice and it became a signal, played by a regiment's Corps of Drums or Pipes and Drums each night to tavern owners to turn off the taps of their ale kegs so that the soldiers would retire to their billeted lodgings at a reasonable hour.

The adoption of the green hackle now being worn by the Argylls battalion ( 5 SCOTS ) is no doubt a continuation of that regiment's association with the colour green, most prominent in the hue of their regimental kilts and stripes on their regimental association ties.

Some of the more egregious examples have included a constant-readiness motor rifle regiment's tanks running out of fuel on the firing ranges, due to the diversion of their fuel supplies to local businesses.

The regiment's more senior officers, who had supported their colonel, were locked up.

As a newly formed regiment in its own right, consisting of five main antecedent units and their territorial and militia units, the regiment's older history can be seen in their antecedent regiments articles shown in the ' Lineage ' sections below:

The regiment's presence and constant patrolling of vital points initially stabilised the situation in their operational area of County Down.

From May 2006 until the regiment's rebadging, the Green Howards were one of five remaining line infantry regiments that had not been amalgamated in their entire history, a claim shared with:

As amalgamation drew ever nearer, on 19 March at a farewell dinner at Dunster Castle in Somerset, the regiment farewelled its Colonel-in-Chief after HM King Harald V chose to end his role with the end of the regiment's independent existence, while on 28 March, the 1st Battalion held their final parade on British soil.

Since 1938, members have worn the red hackle on their khaki tam o ' shanter as a symbol of the regiment's connection with the famous Black Watch Regiment.

The Inniskillings began their advance on Belgium on 31 August-the 7th Armoured Division's objective was the city of Ghent-and crossed the Somme, where the regiment's predecessor regiments had fought during World War I, and Authie rivers.

On 24 April of the same year, their services were accepted-since then, this date has always been celebrated as the regiment's official birthday.

Artifacts displayed in the museum cover the regiment's activities from the Yukon Gold Rush to their current work in Afghanistan.

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.

It remains common for army instructors to ensure that their recruits have memorised and are able to recite all of their regiment's battle honours.

In some regiments, it is customary for officers to donate pipe banners to their regiment's pipers at the time of their retirement.