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75th (Highland) Regiment of Foot - Lost Highland Status and dress in 1809 - 1 Battalion; 76th (Hindustan) Regiment of Foot - Became Hindustan in 1806, last in 1812 - 1 Battalion; 77th Regiment of Foot - Became East Middlesex in 1807 - 1 Battalion; 78th (Ross-Shire Buffs Highlanders) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1793-1796 and 1804-1816
Army Air Corps - 7 + 1 regiments [22] Royal Regiment of Artillery - 15 + 6 regiments [23] [24] Corps of Royal Engineers - 15 + 7 regiments [25] Royal Corps of Signals - 13 + 4 regiments [26] Intelligence Corps - 3 + 4 battalions [27] Honourable Artillery Company - 0 + 1 Regiment [28] Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) - 0 + 1 ...
It was formed from the 2nd Punjab Regiment of the British Indian Army in 1947. [47] 1768 Maratha Light Infantry: East India Company: Company Raj India: The Maratha Light Infantry is a light infantry regiment of the Indian Army. It traces its lineage to the Bombay Sepoys, raised in 1768, making it the most senior light infantry regiment in the ...
This is a list of British Army cavalry and infantry regiments that were created by Childers Reforms in 1881, a continuation of the Cardwell Reforms. It also indicates the cavalry amalgamations that would take place forty years later as part of the Government cuts of the early 1920s .
This is a list of numbered Regiments of Cavalry of the British Army from the mid-18th century until 1922 when various amalgamations were implemented. The Life Guards were formed following the end of the English Civil War as troops of Life Guards between 1658 and 1659. [ 1 ]
[2] [3] The oldest of these organisations was the Militia Force (also referred to as the 'Constitutional Force'), [4] whereby the Reserve Forces units mostly lost their own identities, and became numbered Territorial Force sub-units of regular British Army corps or regiments (the Home Militia had followed this path, with the Militia Infantry ...
A handwritten script from the much loved sitcom Dad's Army has sold at auction for £6,500. The script recently featured on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and was sold as part of an annual New Year's ...
The Blues and Royals is the only regiment in the British Army that allows troopers and non-commissioned officers, when not wearing headdress, to salute an officer. The custom started after the Battle of Warburg in 1760 by John Manners, Marquess of Granby , who commanded both the Royal Horse Guards and the Royal Dragoons, which were separate ...