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The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is the most senior infantry regiment of the British Army, being at the top of the Infantry Order of Precedence. It can trace its lineage back to 1656 when Lord Wentworth's Regiment was raised in Bruges to protect the exiled Charles II . [ 2 ]
The Army Cadet Force (ACF) is a cadet organisation based in the United Kingdom.It is a voluntary youth group sponsored by the Ministry of Defence (British Army).Local units of the ACF, called Detachments, are based in towns and villages across the UK and formed of those cadets and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers (CFAVs) parading together at that location.
1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards [4] The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) [4] The Royal Dragoon Guards [4] The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish) [4] The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths' Own) [4] The King's Royal Hussars [4] The Light Dragoons [4]
By 2007 the units in the district included the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment; the 1st Battalions of the Welsh Guards and Coldstream Guards; 2nd Battalion, Mercian Regiment; Nijmegen Company, Grenadier Guards, No. 7 Company, Coldstream Guards, and F Company, Scots Guards, the three Guards incremental companies; The King's Troop, Royal Horse ...
Grenadier Guards: 1 December 1917: First World War: Gonnelieu [31] Henry Percy: Grenadier Guards: 5 November 1854: Crimean War: Inkerman [31] Thomas Pryce: Grenadier Guards: 11–12 April 1918: First World War: Vieux-Berquin [33] William Reynolds: Scots Fusiliers Guards [note 1] 20 September 1854: Crimean War: Alma [14] John Rhodes: Grenadier ...
G (Messines) Company, Scots Guards, in Westminster [96] Mortar Platoon, at Hudson House, Bellingham [73] No 15 (Loos) Company, Irish Guards, at Connaught House, Camberwell [97] – battalion HQ coy; No 17 Company, Coldstream Guards, in Hammersmith [98] Ypres Company, Grenadier Guards, in Kingston upon Thames [99] Rifle Platoon, in Southall [100]
The British Gurkha Camp in Pokhara is the main recruitment centre, where the annual selection course is run. Pokhara is also the location of the main pension records and houses the headquarters of the Gurkha Welfare Trust. [336] Dharan Station: British Gurkhas Nepal: Nepal: A small station intended to assist British Gurkhas Nepal operations in ...
The 6th Guards Tank Brigade was constituted as follows during the war: [9] 4th Tank Battalion Coldstream Guards; 4th Tank Battalion Grenadier Guards; 3rd Tank Battalion Scots Guards; Prior to Operation Plunder and after Operations Veritable and Blackcock, the 6th Guards had units of artillery, engineer and other units added to their formation.