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[Military] Brat: Not an acronym for "British Regiment Attached Traveller". [28] This is just a specific instance of the word brat, meaning child or offspring, first attested in 16th-century Scotland. [29] "Chav": see under "Other" Coma: Some falsely believe that the word coma originates from "cessation of motor activity". Although this ...
Over there (and here) are cited articles describing "Canadian military brats as an institution", Indian military brats as having "a different way of life", academic citations citing the British use of of the term ("British Regiment Attached Traveler") and a Wikipedia article citing the use of the term "Brat" in (In Britain, associated with the ...
The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment - 1 + 2 battalions [14] The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Yorkshire Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Welsh - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Mercian Regiment - 1 ...
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [26]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
He went with the 2nd battalion of the regiment to join John Stuart in the British campaign to Sicily 1806. Soon after, Keith was sent as part of the Alexandria expedition of 1807 . After being captured at Al Hamed near Rosetta on 21 April 1807, Keith and a drummer in his regiment, William Thompson, were purchased by Ahmad Aga (nicknamed Ahmad ...
Umdat as-Salik was translated into English by the American Muslim scholar Nuh Ha Mim Keller in 1991 and became the first translation of a standard Islamic legal reference in a European language to be certified by Al-Azhar University. The translation comprises 26 sections titled according to the letters of the English alphabet, Book A, Book B ...
Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (3 June 1910 – 24 August 2003), [1] also known as Mubarak bin Landan (Arabic: مُبَارَك بِن لَنْدَن, the blessed one of London) [2] [3] was a British military officer, explorer, and writer.
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, KCMG, FRGS, (19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar. [1] [2] He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and South America, as well as his extensive knowledge of languages and cultures, speaking up to 29 different languages.