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The 87th Battalion (Canadian Grenadier Guards) was the only Canadian Foot Guards CEF unit active during The Great War. The Governor Generals Foot Guards (GGFG) contributed volunteers for the 2nd Battalion (Eastern Ontario Regiment), CEF, and the 77th Battalion CEF (Ottawa), CEF. The Governor Generals Horse Guards (GGHG) contributed men for the ...
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] In 1665, this regiment was combined with John Russell's Regiment of ...
Grenadier. A grenadier ( / ˌɡrɛnəˈdɪər / GREN-ə-DEER, French: [ɡʁənadje] ⓘ; derived from the word grenade) [ 1] was historically an assault-specialist soldier who threw hand grenades in siege operation battles. The distinct combat function of the grenadier was established in the mid-17th century, when grenadiers were recruited from ...
The 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland ( German: 11. SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier-Division "Nordland") was a Waffen-SS division primarily raised with Germans and ethnic Germans from Romania, but also foreign volunteers from Western Europe. It saw action, as part of Army Group North, in the Independent State of Croatia and on ...
The Panzergrenadier Division "Großdeutschland", [ notes 1] also commonly referred to simply as Großdeutschland[ notes 2] or Großdeutschland Division, was an elite combat unit of the German Army ( Heer) that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II . Originally formed in 1921, it was known as the Wachregiment Berlin[ 3] and served as a ...
The Canadian Grenadier Guards ( CGG) is a reserve infantry regiment in the 34 Canadian Brigade Group, 2nd Canadian Division, of the Canadian Army. The regiment is the oldest and second-most-senior infantry regiment in the Primary Reserve of the Canadian Army. Located in Montreal, its main role is the provision of combat-ready light infantry ...
The 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Belarusian), [ a] originally called the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Russian), [ b] was a short-lived German Waffen-SS infantry division formed largely from Belarusian, Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian personnel of the Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling in August 1944 at Warsaw in ...
The Reichswehr (Army of the Weimar Republic) started experimenting with camouflage patterns for Wehrmacht uniforms before World War II and some army units used Splittertarnmuster ("splinter camouflage pattern"), first issued in 1931, and based on Zeltbahn shelter halves/groundsheets. Waffen-SS combat units used various patterns from 1935 onwards.