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The 1st Battalion would serve with the 3rd Infantry Brigade, part of the 1st Infantry Division for the entire war. [2] Corporal Thomas Priday was killed by a land mine near Metz on 9 December 1939 when the 1st Battalion was based near the Maginot Line as part of the original British Expeditionary Force that was sent to France at the outbreak of ...
Grover was born in British India, the son of General Sir Malcolm Grover and Helen Grace Lawrence, granddaughter of Sir George St Patrick Lawrence. [2] [3] Educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Grover was, at the age of 17, commissioned as a second lieutenant into the King's Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI) on 15 December 1914, four months after the outbreak ...
The battalion then pursued the French Army into France and fought at the Battle of the Pyrenees in July 1813, [29] the Siege of San Sebastián in autumn 1813 [30] and the Battle of Nivelle in November 1813 [31] as well as the Battle of Toulouse in April 1814. [32] The battalion returned home in July 1814. [33]
The 1st BATTALION and TROOP C were defending a very critical sector of the battle front during a determined attack by the enemy. The defending units were overwhelmingly outnumbered. The 83rd Chinese Communist Army drove the full force of its savage assault at the positions held by the 1st BATTALION, GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT and attached unit.
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [26]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
The Haryana Armed Police includes the State Police Band. [9] 1st Battalion Haryana Armed Police, Ambala, transferred to Haryana in 1966 at the time of formation of Haryana. [9] 2nd Battalion Haryana Armed Police, Madhuban, transferred in 1966. [9] 3rd Battalion Haryana Armed Police, Hisar, raised in 1969. [9]
KSLI may refer to: King's Shropshire Light Infantry; The ICAO code for Los Alamitos Army Airfield; KSLI (AM), an AM radio station licensed to Abilene, Texas, United ...
The 181st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery ('The Shropshire Gunners') was a unit of the Royal Artillery, raised by the British Army during World War II.First raised as infantry of the 6th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry from the Welsh Borders, it was converted to the field artillery role, serving in a Scottish formation in the North West Europe campaign in which it was the first ...