While 60 % of regimental commanders had two years or more of command experience in June 1941, and almost 80 % of rifle division commanders, only 20 % of corps commanders, and 5 % or fewer army and military district commanders, had the same level of experience.

British commanders had trained on the lessons of the Crimean War, and were adept at battalion and regimental set pieces with columns manoeuvring in jungles, deserts and mountainous regions.

In some case, regimental commanders of units defending the capital were shot and killed by the company commanders of units in flight simply because the regimental commanders refused to move out of the way so that the fleeing units would have a more direct route to escape further from the Japanese.

The grueling battle lasted for hours, long after dark, as shells plunged in from the sea and General Ames struggled with a division that became increasingly disorganized as his regimental leaders and all of his brigade commanders fell dead or wounded.

Pickett's three brigade commanders and all thirteen of his regimental commanders were casualties.

There was some tension within the force between the brigade and regimental commanders who were veterans of the Peninsular War or of earlier fighting in Upper Canada, and Prévost and his staff.

During the conflict, four Hillsdale students received the Medal of Honor, three became generals, and many more served as regimental commanders.

There was much disagreement over how much emphasis should be placed on Jäger, though, and reform was for the most part at the regimental level by more energetic commanders such as Yorck.

The point is that every soldier who hit that causeway saw every general officer and the regimental and battalion commanders right there.

On the east side of the road, Mouton was killed, while several of his regimental commanders were hit as well and the charge of his division was repulsed.

However, was helped by his squadmates, the regimental political comissar and the divisional commanders, and he was soon vindicated, the 216 IAD's leadership dismissed the case against him, and reinstated him.

The regimental company commanders of Butler's Rangers, 1777 – 1784, were:

After the Vietnam War, division and brigade commanders determined that the U. S. Army needed elite, rapidly deployable light infantry, so in 1974 General Creighton Abrams constituted the 1st Ranger Battalion ; eight months later, the 2nd Ranger Battalion was constituted, and in 1984 the 3rd Ranger Battalion and their regimental headquarters were created.

Thir was replaced as commander of the Albanians by Muhammad Ali, one of the regimental commanders.

Political officers only survived at the regimental level, in the form of a Deputy for Political Matters, and at the front level, where they formed the Military Councils with respective military commanders.

The Serbian government dispatched 130 people from Corfu to Odessa, including regimental, battalion and other unit commanders, administrative personnel, as well as a medical detachment.

After World War I and until 1986, Accrington Corporation buses were painted in the regimental colours of red and blue with gold lining.

Shielded as they were from observation by a slight fold in the land, their commander, Brigadier-General Van Pallandt, ordered the regimental colours to be left in place on the edge of the plateau to convince their opponents they were still in their initial position.

Prior to the invention of tension rods drum skins were attached and tuned by rope systems such as that used on the Djembe or pegs and ropes such as that used on Ewe Drums, a system rarely used today, although sometimes seen on regimental marching band snare drums.

Mornings were spent in the schoolroom ; there were regimental afternoon walks ; educating the young ladies continued at mealtimes when Miss Edgeworth ate with the family ; at night, the governess slept in a curtained off area in the girls ’ bedroom.

This may be true since large numbers of the society's men were isolated from normal occupations, but whatever the resource impact, the regimental system clearly built on existing tribal cultural elements that could be adapted and shaped to fit an expansionist agenda.

Echoing from the mountain, however, were the shouted cadences and fiery exhortations of their regimental izinduna, who reminded the warriors that their king did not send them to run away.

His major innovations were to blend these traditional elements in a new way, to systematize the approach to battle, and to standardize organization, methods and weapons, particularly in his adoption of the ilkwa-the Zulu thrusting spear, unique long-term regimental units, and the " buffalo horns " formation.

Regimental numbers were sewn or stenciled in red ( green from August 1914 ) onto the front of the cover, other than in units of the Prussian Guards, which never carried regimental numbers or other adornments on the Überzug.

These nuclei, organized at the regimental level and above, were " illegal ," meaning they were formed without Nationalist knowledge or authorization.

By 09: 30, the regimental command post was set up just below the bluff crest, and the 1st and 2nd battalions of the 16th RCT were being sent inland as they reached the crest.

Usually the executions were carried out by the regimental military police platoon, or in the case of spies, by the local military police.

There was no permanent formation above the regimental level, senior officers were largely recruited from aristocratic circles ( and commissions were generally sold to the highest bidder, regardless of competence ), and the Russian soldier, in line with 18th-century practice, was regularly beaten and punished " to instill discipline ".

In July 1973 the 259th Group was redesignated the Truong Son Command, the regimental sectors were converted to divisions, and the binh trams were designated as regiments.

Stationed on the island after the return to the regimental system in 1924 were the following regular units:

was inducted into the USAFFE by Brig, Gen. George M. Parker in Camp Crame, after which it was moved to the Balara cantonment area in Quezon City, where the men were trained as a combat team on the regimental level.

By the late 1980s it consisted of a regimental headquarters in command of three Motorised Rifle Battalions, equipped with either the BMP or BTR series of armoured personnel carriers, and one Tank Battalion, typically consisting of T-64, T-72 or T-80 tanks, although older models were present in units outside the European Theater of Operations.

While Operation Compass continued successfully in 1941 and resulted in the complete defeat of the Italian Army in North Africa, Wilson, who was already highly regarded by his World War I regimental colleague and now Secretary of State for War, Anthony Eden, had also won the confidence of Churchill himself.

With the capital in temporary confusion, and one oath to Constantine having already been sworn, the society scrambled in secret meetings to convince regimental leaders not to swear allegiance to Nicholas.

Fortuitously, the Zulu army had already begun to assemble at Ulundi, as it did every year for the First Fruits ceremony when all warriors were duty-bound to report to their regimental barracks near Ulundi.

However, from November 1969 regimental cap badges were reintroduced for British army infantry regiments in place of brigade cap badges, at which time the regiment officially adopted as its cap badge the regimental insignia that was already in use as its collar badge.

Finally, the failure of the attempt on St. John's was widely seen as reckless and ill-advised, attributes they did not appreciate in a regimental leader.

For instance, the regimental crest of the U. S. 71st Infantry Regiment of the New York National Guard consisted of a gold fasces set on a blue background.

After performances in the youth and A teams gained him promotion to the reserves, Banks was posted to Germany with the Royal Signals on National service, winning the Rhine Cup with his regimental team.

Each ibutho had a singular arrangement of headdress and other adornments, so that the Zulu army could be said to have had regimental uniforms ; latterly the ' full-dress ' was only worn on festive occasions.

For example, on 3 September 1944, the personnel of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division marched six abreast to the music of massed regimental pipe and drum bands through the streets of Dieppe, France to commemorate the liberation of the city from German occupation, as well as commemorate the loss of over 900 soldiers from that formation during the Dieppe Raid two years earlier.

The regimental system clearly built on existing tribal cultural elements that could be adapted and shaped to fit an expansionist agenda.

When Captain Dana " Dynamite " Holmes ( Philip Ober ) learns of his reputation as a talented boxer, he recommends that Prewitt join the regimental boxing club that he heads, and promises that Prewitt will be promoted to corporal or even sergeant, if he helps win the boxing trophy on December 15, but Prewitt refuses, though he keeps silent about his reasons.

In the Battle of Chapultepec on September 12, 1847, he was wounded in the thigh while charging up the hill with his regimental colors ; falling, he handed the flag to his friend, Lt. George E. Pickett, who was able to reach the summit.

The names of those members of the SAS who have died on duty are inscribed on the regimental clock tower at Stirling lines, those whose names are inscribed are said to have failed to " beat the clock " by surviving members.

A royal cypher, appearing on buildings and official seals, or a crown, seen on provincial and national coats of arms, as well as police force and Canadian Forces regimental and maritime badges and rank insignia, is also used to illustrate the monarchy as the locus of authority, the latter without referring to any specific monarch.

This badge was awarded to the battalion commander on 15 November 1942 by the 3rd Zouaves ' regimental commander, and is worn today by all members of the 509th Infantry.

Early on the morning of 10 June 1944, Diekmann informed Weidinger at regimental headquarters that he had been approached by two members of the Milice, the French secret police that collaborated with the German Gestapo, who claimed that a Waffen SS officer was being held by the Resistance in Oradour-sur-Vayres, a nearby village.

Carey endured several years of social and regimental opprobrium before his death in Bombay, India, on February 22, 1883.

Throughout the colonial history of Barbados, Britain routinely stationed large segments of its West India regimental troops on the island of Barbados.

At the age of fifteen Brock joined the 8th ( The King's ) Regiment of Foot on 8 March 1785 with the rank of ensign, and was likely given responsibility for the regimental colours.

The regimental standards had been secretly buried by the adjutant shortly before the regiment was summoned to the Tuileries on the night of 8 / 9 August, indicating that the likely end was foreseen.