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[24] [25] On 1 October, the army officially reintroduced the designation of regiment to parent regiments, with the 109th Infantry becoming the 109th Infantry Regiment. [2] Returning to the United States after a year in Iraq with the brigade, the 1-109th was released from active Federal service on 20 July 2006, reverting to state control. [2]
The 109th volunteers planting their colors on the rebel works in front of Petersburg, Va., April 2, 1865. The 109th New York Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. [1] The 109th New York was raised in and around Binghamton, New York. It was also known as the Binghamton Regiment ...
The 109th Regiment Penna. Veteran Volunteers: An Address Delivered at the Unveiling of Their Monument on Culp's hill, Gettysburg, Pa., September 11, 1889 (Philadelphia: J. Beale, Printer), 1890. Attribution. This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des ...
The U.S. 109th Infantry Regiment, assigned to capture the woods north of Germeter, was impeded after 300 yards (270 m) by an unexpected minefield (the "Wild Pig"), pinned down by mortar and artillery fire and harassed by local counterattacks. Just one mile (1.6 km) was gained after two days, after which the 109th dug in and endured casualties.
Clark joined the Army in March 1942, [1] and by September 12, 1944, was serving as a technical sergeant in Company K, 109th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division. On that day, near Kalborn , Luxembourg , he crawled through open terrain to reach a platoon which had been pinned down by heavy fire, led them to safety, and then returned to ...
Leading with the U.S. 109th Infantry Regiment on 2 February, the infantry crossed an anti-tank ditch north of the city, while the French armor located a crossing point over the obstacle. This accomplished, the French armor plunged into Colmar reaching the Place Rapp (Rapp Square) at 11:30.
After the Crown took control of the Presidency armies in the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion, the regiment became the 3rd Bombay Regiment in November 1859. [1] It was then renumbered as the 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry) on transfer to the British Army in September 1862. [1] It embarked for England in 1877. [2]
The 109th Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment traces its origins to 1768, when it was raised as the 5th Battalion, Bombay Sepoys . The regiment's first action was during the Mysore Campaign in the Third Anglo-Mysore War .