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On the popular and long running Granada Television soap opera Coronation Street, a nearby Inkerman Street has been mentioned on occasion. On Operation Herrick in Afghanistan, there was a Forward Operating Base called FOB Inkerman. The third company of the Grenadier Guards is known colloquially as the "Inkerman Company" for their part in the battle.
Cap badge of the regiment [3]. The Grenadier Guards trace their lineage back to 1656, [4] when Lord Wentworth's Regiment was raised from gentlemen of the Honourable Artillery Company by the then heir to the throne, Prince Charles (later King Charles II), in Bruges, in the Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium), where it formed a part of the exiled King's bodyguard. [5]
Options for Change also saw the retention of a second company from the Grenadier Guards, when The Inkerman Company was transferred from the 2nd Battalion to the 1st Battalion to serve as the left flank company. [23] The Inkerman Company was originally formed in 1961 as a composite company to maintain the traditions of the 3rd Battalion, which ...
The left flank company of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, which holds the traditions of the disbanded 3rd Battalion (which played a large part of the battle) is named after the town and battle. Now known as the Inkerman Company, or by its nickname "The Ribs".
No 3 (Fighting) Company 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards. Company was raised specifically for Herrick 6 and came under command of 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment. Company was disbanded once more on return to UK. 7 Platoon; Elements of 16th Regiment Royal Artillery; 19th Regiment Royal Artillery. 5 (Gibraltar 1779–1783) Battery
Ablett joined the army on 20 February 1850 at the age of 19 years and five months, [3] and was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards.He served in the Crimean War, seeing action at the battles of the Alma, Inkerman and Balaclava.
Grenadier Guards: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Inkerman Company trooping the colour. Non-participating guards: Welsh Guards 2003: 1st Battalion: Grenadier Guards: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: 2002: 1st Battalion: Scots Guards: Prince Edward, Duke of Kent: Held as part of the national celebrations of the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II.
Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Tippinge, KCH (2 May 1817 – 2 August 1898) was a British Army officer. As a Grenadier Guard he "served with distinction" in four fields of the Crimean War of 1854: at Alma, Balaclava, Sebastapol and Inkerman.