Many regiments name their companies after battle honours or former units which make up the current regiment, for example:

Regiments, battalions and batteries of the Company have fought with distinction in both World Wars and its current Regiment, which forms part of the Territorial Army, is the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior in the Territorial Army.

The regiment received its current name, The Coldstream Guards, in 1855.

Since 1904, all ranks of the Royal Scots and King's Own Scottish Borderers have worn them in their full-dress headgear and that tradition is carried on in the dress glengarries of the current Scottish-super regiment, The Royal Regiment of Scotland.

In September 1902 the regiment sailed for Monterey, California, where it built the current Presidio.

The association is made up of former and current members of the regiment.

The Headquarters Squadron also includes the Command Troop which is equipped with a number of armoured vehicles including a further two Challenger 2 tanks ( normally commanded by the Commanding Officer and Regimental Second in Command ), for a current total of forty-four in the regiment.

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In 1995 the Cosmonaut Training Center and Air Force Test and Training regiment were merged and reorganized into its current form.

An amalgamation of the 6th DCRCH and the 17th DYRCH took place on September 16, 1958, when the newly formed regiment was given the current title of The Royal Canadian Hussars ( Montreal ).

The current regiment was named in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales.

In 1940, the regiment became the first Francophone Canadian unit to mount the King's Guard in London and was the first of the three current Regular Force regiments to do so.

Following the Strategic Defence Review, the regiment merged with the Dorset Yeomanry in July 1999 and was reorganised and re-roled into its current ORBAT.

Named after Johan Willem Friso of Orange-Nassau, it is the oldest and most senior regiment in the current order of battle.

The current regiment was formed in 1959 by the amalgamation of 1st King's Dragoon Guards ( raised in 1685 as Lanier's or 2nd Queen's Regiment of Horse by James II of England in reaction to the Monmouth Rebellion ) and the Queen's Bays or 2nd Dragoon Guards ( the former Peterborough's or 3rd Regiment of Horse, also raised in 1685 by James II in reaction to the Monmouth Rebellion ).

For the early part of its formation, the regiment was known by the name of the current Colonel-in-Chief, later becoming known as the 22nd Regiment of Foot.

The current Colonel Commandant of the regiment is Lieutenant General Sardar Mahmood Ali Khan.

The current regiment was formed in 1922 through the amalgamation of three separate regiments of Dogras as the 17th Dogra Regiment.

At this point, the regiments were quoted as a combat strength of 48 Scimitars and 12 Strikers ; this is comparable to the current regimental structure, but for a four-squadron regiment.

Against all odds, the regiment grew and flourished and in 1938, the unit moved into its current headquarters: the Salaberry Armoury.

The current Commanding Officer ( May 2010 ) is Lt. Col. Ross Cossar, CD, who took command of the regiment on 1 May of that year.

In December 1959, the regiment once again returned to the Colours and adopted its current designation as The Brockville Rifles, as well as an infantry unit.

In May 1915 the regiment was renamed to its current name, the Princess Louise Fusiliers.

Major Amit Bhardwaj, current 2IC of the regiment.

In 2007 the Land Forces consisted of 29, 600 soldiers ( 6th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Grodno ), 11th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Slonim, the former 11th Guards Tank Division ) the 120th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Minsk ), 38th and 103rd Mobile Brigades ( organized similarly to Soviet airborne regiments, not all of them are equipped with BMD-1 ), 5th Separate Spetznaz Brigade ( Maryina Horka ), five artillery brigades and four regiments, two MRL regiments, 15th, 29th, 115th, 120th and 302nd SAM Brigades, two SSM brigades, two brigades and one regiment of engineers, 8th NBC independent brigade, two signals brigades, 40th independent NBC battalion.

The IISS estimated in 2011-12 that Burkina Faso had 6, 400 personnel in the Armee de Terre in three military regions, one tank battalion ( two tank platoons ), five infantry regiments that may be understrength, and an airborne regiment.

There were also an armored car regiment and a mechanized infantry battalion.

A battalion, led by commandant Faurax, was formed from two companies of the First Foreign Regiment and two others from the second regiment.

As of early 1994, the former Soviet 14th Guards Army ( about 9, 200 troops ) consisted of one army headquarters, the 59th Motor Rifle Division, one tank battalion, one artillery regiment, and one anti-aircraft brigade.

In that year IISS said the army included six infantry battalions, one anti-tank regiment, one combat support brigade ( one artillery regiment ), a Presidential Guard of one battalion, and one air defence regiment.

It dispatched an infantry battalion to the United Nations force in Somalia in 1993, it sent the 35th Mechanized Infantry Battalion to Kosovo, and sent a regiment to Kuwait during the Iraq War.

Typically buglers and drummers mass under a sergeant-drummer and during marches alternately perform with the regiment and / or battalion ensembles.

In 1917, a year after being appointed the head of 1st battalion of Feng's 2nd regiment, his battalion spearheaded the removal of Zhang Xun from his imperial restoration in 1917.

Their combined forces killed 258 soldiers, wiping out the entire Custer battalion, and inflicting more than 50 % casualties on the regiment.

At the time of Operation Market-Garden, the 10th SS Panzer Division had an approximate strength of 3, 000 men ; an armoured infantry regiment, divisional reconnaissance battalion, two artillery battalions and an engineer battalion, all partially motorized.

In 1838 a third battalion was raised, and the regiment thus formed was commanded by Major de Lamoriciere.

The Royal Welsh ( The Royal Welch Fusiliers, 23rd of Foot ) was then the name of the first battalion of the new regiment, which still recruited across Wales.

Infantry companies A through D belonged to the 1st battalion of a regiment, E through H to the 2nd, I through M to the 3rd ; the letter ‘ J ’ was not used.

Observing the build up of shipping off the beach, and in an attempt to contain what were regarded as minor penetrations at Omaha, a battalion was detached from the 915th regiment being deployed against the British to the east.

The last reserve of the 352nd division, an engineer battalion, was attached to the 916th regiment in the evening.

The 1st Grenadiers of Sardinia regiment is currently ( 2010 ) the only infantry regiment of the Italian Army with two battalions ( 1st " Assietta " and 2nd " Cengio " Grenadiers battalions ), and it is likely that in the near future its 2nd battalion will be detached to re-activate the 2nd Sardinia Grenadiers Regiment.

The refusal of an extra battalion reduced the size of his force by at least a sixth, and rejecting the firepower offered by the Gatling guns played into the events of June 25 to the disadvantage of his regiment.

It was formed with two infantry brigades of two infantry regiments of three infantry battalions, an artillery regiment of fifty four guns and eighteen machineguns, a cavalry regiment of twelve squadrons, an engineer battalion of four companies, a transport battalion of four companies, and other minor support units.