by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards (QDG) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army. Nicknamed The Welsh Cavalry, the regiment recruits from Wales and the bordering English counties of Herefordshire, and Shropshire, and is the senior cavalry regiment, and...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The 14th/20th King’s Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was created by the amalgamation of the 14th King’s Hussars and the 20th Hussars in 1922 and, after service in the Second World War, it amalgamated with the Royal Hussars to become...
by Tony Foran | Jan 7, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, usually just known as the Devon and Dorsets, was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1958 by the amalgamation of two county regiments, the Devonshire Regiment and the Dorset Regiment. In 2007 it was...
by Tony Foran | Jan 7, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Queen’s Division. Currently the regiment has two battalions: the 1st battalion, part of the Regular Army, is an armoured infantry battalion based in Tidworth,...
by Tony Foran | Jan 7, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Royal Tank Regiment (RTR) is the oldest tank unit in the world, being formed by the British Army in 1916 during the Great War.[1] Today, it is the armoured regiment of the British Army’s 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade. Formerly known as the Tank...
