As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

The truth is, however, that when Mel Chandler first reported to the regiment the only steed he had ever ridden was a swivel chair and the only weapon he had ever wielded was a pencil.

* 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.

Kropp and Bäumer part ways when Bäumer is recalled to his regiment after recovering.

The Gendarmenmarkt, a neoclassical square in Berlin whose name dates back to the quarters of the famous Gens d ' armes regiment located here in the 18th century, is bordered by two similarly designed cathedrals, the Französischer Dom with its observation platform and the Deutscher Dom.

Today, a marine is actually an infantry regiment that sometimes fights solely on land and is no longer tied to the navy.

" An aluminum identification tag, the size of a silver half dollar and of suitable thickness, stamped with the name, rank, company, regiment, or corps of the wearer, will be worn by each officer and enlisted man of the Army whenever the field kit is worn, the tag to be suspended from the neck, underneath the clothing, by a cord or thong passed through a small hole in the tab.

The Brazilian president's honor guard is provided ( amongst other units ) by a regiment of dragoons: the 1st Guards Cavalry Regiment.

This regiment is known as the " Dragões da Independência " ( Dragoons of Independence ).

This is commemorated by the custom under which the horse having this number is used only by the commander of the modern regiment.

The Royal Canadian Dragoons is the senior Armoured regiment in the Canadian Forces.

The modern French Army retains three Dragoons regiments from the 32 it possessed at the beginning of World War I: the 2nd, which is a nuclear, bacteriologic and chemical protection regiment, the 4th, an armour regiment equipped with Leclerc tanks, and the 13th, which is a special-ops parachute regiment.

The regiment is currently equipped with the Stryker family of wheeled fighting vehicles.

However, in English it is often used to refer to a Zulu regiment, which is called an ibutho in Zulu.

* Simcoe's regiment is still called the Queen's York Rangers, now an armoured reconnaissance regiment of the Canadian Forces reserves.

The scene is drawn from a footnote to the Letter to M. D ' Alembert on Spectacles | Letter to d ' Alembert where Rousseau recalls witnessing the popular celebrations following the exercises of the St Gervais regiment.

While primarily utilised for ceremonial purposes, the regiment can be deployed for internal security or police roles if required.

As well as his ceremonial roles in the Norwegian Army, he also served as Colonel-in-Chief of the Green Howards ( Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Yorkshire Regiment ), the British regiment named for his grandmother Queen Alexandra.

The Atholl Highlanders, a private Scottish infantry regiment of the Duke of Atholl, was formed in 1839 purely for ceremonial purposes.

The aspects that an administrative regiment might have in common include a symbolic colonel-in-chief ( often a member of the royal family ), a colonel of the regiment or " honorary colonel " who protects the traditions and interests of the regimental family and insists on the maintenance of high standards, battle honours ( honours earned by one unit of an administrative regiment are credited to the regiment ), ceremonial uniforms, cap badges, peculiarities of insignia, stable belts, and regimental marches and songs.

Thus in the Armoured Corps, the traditional administrative " regiment " tends to play more of a ceremonial role, while in practice, its members are administered by their corps or " branch " as in the Artillery.

In the British Army and the armies of many Commonwealth countries, a corps is also a grouping by common function, or an Arm or a Service ( e. g. Intelligence Corps, Royal Logistic Corps, Royal Corps of Signals ), performing much the same function as a ceremonial infantry or cavalry regiment, with its own cap badge, stable belt, and other insignia and traditions.

Detachments of the cavalry regiment reinforce the two infantry regiments in carrying out ceremonial and security roles in and around state buildings.

An infantry regiment is an administrative and ceremonial organisation only and may include several battalions.

In addition, the regiment is the ceremonial unit of the Finnish Defence Forces, responsible for the Guard of Honour of the President of Finland.

The regiment is permitted to wear the Prince of Wales's feathers as an arm badge on ceremonial dress ; this comes from the 3rd Carabiniers ( Prince of Wales's ), who wore this device as its cap badge.

In May 2009, William Windsor ( known as Billy ), a goat mascot of the British Army's Royal Welsh regiment, retired to the Zoo after eight years ' distinguished service performing ceremonial duties.

The President's Bodyguard, which was founded in 1773 as the Governor's Troop of Moghuls and renamed the Governor General's Bodyguard during the colonial era, is the country's Household Cavalry regiment, with ceremonial soldiers on horseback and combat soldiers in armoured vehicles or heliborne roles.

During ceremonial events it is from the colour sergeant that the ensign collects the colour of the battalion or regiment.

The regiment was authorized to wear the distinctive scarlet uniform of the " Guards " on all ceremonial occasions by decree of Queen Victoria.

The association in 2008 co-ordinated a successful fund-raising campaign aimed at obtaining sufficient stocks of the scarlet and blue full dress of the regiment to enable the majority of its personnel to parade in this traditional uniform on ceremonial occasions.

Today, the Atholl Highlanders is a purely ceremonial regiment, of approximately 100 men, including pipes and drums.

The ceremonial home of the regiment is La Citadelle in Quebec City, where the regimental museum is housed.

regiment ’ s past in terms of war, ceremonial, training, sport and other affairs that have influenced the Regiment over the years.

The modern regiment has readopted this headdress for limited ceremonial purposes.

In 1944, the regiment became a mechanised one, though retained a ceremonial mounted squadron.

The regiment wears crimson trousers when in ceremonial, No1 or No2 dress, and ( for officers and NCOs ) mess dress.

Throughout the years the structure of the guards has evolved, going from convoy to squadron, to regiment and, subsequent to 1942, to division.

The new structure of the army will see a total of three armoured regiments, each assigned to a new " armoured infantry brigade ", alongside a formation reconnaissance regiment ( renamed as " armoured cavalry ").

Mungo Melvin, despite approving of the 7th Armoured Division's institution of a flexible combined arms structure ( a structure that other British armoured divisions would not adopt until after Operation Goodwood ), writes that neither the 131st Infantry Brigade nor the balanced divisional reserve of an armoured regiment and an infantry battalion were employed effectively.

The Bulgarian Army had a unique organization among the armies of Europe, since each infantry division had three brigades of two regiments, composed of four battalions of six heavy companies of 250 men each, plus an independent battalion, two large artillery regiments and one cavalry regiment, giving a grand total of 25 very heavy infantry battalions and 16 cavalry companies per division, which was more than the equivalent of two nine-battalion divisions, the standard divisional structure in most contemporary armies, as was also the case with the Greek and Serbian armies in 1913.

The regiment maintains a traditional structure, with squadrons and units for deployment and active duty, training, ceremony, cadets, and administration.

Today only the Garibaldi Brigade, Ariete Brigade and 7th Bersaglieri regiment retain a " fanfara ", although brigade bands play appropriate music at the fast pace for Bersaglieri units integrated into the brigade structure.

The cadet regiment expanded to a three-battalion structure in 1998.

The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets ( VTCC ) is a cadet-run organization, consisting of approximately 800 members, and is modeled on an Army infantry regiment structure.

The regiment is currently the only line infantry or rifles unit to represent a single geographical county in the new infantry structure, serving as the county regiment of Yorkshire.

The regiment retained towarzysz and retainers structure and a Polish uhlan lance as primary weapon, but this regiment did not survive Prussian collapse of 1806, where most men went, along with their horses and weapons into Polish service.

The regiment received its present name on 1 April 1964, when all of the Territorial Force battalions were absorbed into its structure, receiving battalion numbers:

In 2009 the Russian Air Forces ' structure was completely changed to a command-air base structure from the previous structure of air army-air division or corps-air regiment.

In 1965, the regiment was removed from the command structure of the army, being accountable directly to the President.

When the Army abandoned the Pentomic battle group structure in the early 1960s, the 508th reorganized under the Combat Arms Regimental System as a parent regiment and at the same time was renamed the 508th Infantry.

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.

At that time, the existing battalion structure was expanded to become a two-battalion regiment as two additional company dormitories were completed.

The force structure evolved as the 1st Fort Garry Horse was disbanded in 1970 as the regiment reverted to reserve status.