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The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border) – King's Own Royal Border Regiment March (De ye ken John Peel) (Quick); The Red Rose (Slow) The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers – The British Grenadiers (Quick); Rule Britannia (Slow) The Royal Anglian Regiment – Rule Britannia/Speed the Plough (Quick); The Northamptonshire (Slow)
The British Army. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. Anon, A War Record of the 21st London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles), 1914–1919, 1927/Uckfield: Naval & Military, 2003, ISBN 1-843426-19-6. Maj R. Money Barnes, The Uniforms and History of the Scottish Regiments, London: Seeley Service, 1956/Sphere 1972.
On 19 March 1988, the British Army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes [1] were killed by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in what became known as the corporals killings. Wearing civilian clothes, both armed with Browning Hi-Power pistols and in a civilian car, the soldiers drove into the funeral procession of an IRA member ...
The regiment saw active service against insurgents in Aden; during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation and during the Gulf War, as well as regular service in West Germany as part of the British Army of the Rhine. The regiment was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Hussars to form the Queen's Royal Hussars on 1 September 1993.
1988 was one of the worst years of the Troubles conflict in terms of violence during the 1980s. It saw an increase in IRA activity, a new campaign of sectarian killings by loyalist paramilitaries, and a heavy response by the British Army to IRA attacks. On 6 March the SAS shot dead 3 IRA members in Gibraltar.
The slow march was "Duchess of Kent". The regiment also maintained two unofficial marches: "I'm Ninety Five" and "The Derby Ram". [1] The regimental bugle call 'The Spanish' is played before formal Mess Nights to notify officers to assemble was started by the 45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot.
The 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment of the British Army formed in 1922. It served in the Second World War.However following the reduction of forces at the end of the Cold War and proposals contained in the Options for Change paper, the regiment was amalgamated with the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, to form the new Royal Dragoon Guards in 1992.
The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (11th, 39th and 54th), usually just known as the Devon and Dorsets, was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1958 by the amalgamation of two county regiments, the Devonshire Regiment and the Dorset Regiment. In 2007 it was itself merged into The Rifles, a "large regiment".