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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 ...
He died at the age of 27 while serving as a corporal with the 1st Battalion of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI). [9] His death was reported in The Times on 1 January 1940 under the headline 'First British Soldier Killed in Action'. [2] Priday's younger brother Archibald served with the same battalion. [2] His family reside in ...
The 1st Battalion, 200th Air Defense Artillery of the New Mexico Army National Guard was added as the divisional anti-aircraft gun battalion on 1 September 1975. [ 13 ] In January of 2004, Alpha Company of 1st Squadron, 124th Cavalry Regiment (United States) , 180 Soldiers, were mobilized to serve in Operation Iraqi Freedom .
The regiment was initiated in November 1921 with regimental headquarters at Dallas, Texas. Subordinate battalion headquarters were concurrently organized as follows: 1st Battalion at Dallas; 2nd Battalion at Marshall, Texas; and 3rd Battalion at Greenville, Texas. The regimental band was organized in 1923 at Dallas.
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 ...
Frank Rapier Hancock (born 23 November 1950) is a retired United States Army officer who served as battalion commander of the 1-327th Infantry Regiment during Desert Shield / Desert Storm, 101st Airborne Division. Colonel Hancock received notoriety when his Infantry Battalion, 1-327th Infantry, was the lead battalion of the 101st Airborne ...
Its 1st Rocket Howitzer Battalion was an element of the 35th Infantry Division. Reorganized 1 April 1963 to consist of the 1st Howitzer Battalion. Reorganized 15 December 1967 to consist of the 1st Battalion. redesignated 1 February 1972 as the 127th Field Artillery.