by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME; pronounced phonetically as “Reemee” with stress on the first syllable) is a corps of the British Army that maintains the equipment that the British Army uses. History Prior to...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Queen’s Royal Hussars (The Queen’s Own and Royal Irish) (QRH) is the senior United Kingdom armoured regiment. It was formed on 1 September 1993 from the amalgamation of the Queen’s Own Hussars and the Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars. The...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Queen’s Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1966 through the amalgamation of the four regiments of the Home Counties Brigade. In turn, the regiment became part of Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment in a further...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The King’s Regiment, officially abbreviated as KINGS, was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the King’s Division. It was formed on 1 September 1958 by the amalgamation of the King’s Regiment (Liverpool) which had been raised in...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Military, Military, Royal Marines
The Corps of Royal Marines (RM) is the United Kingdom’s amphibious light infantry force, forming part of the Naval Service, along with the Royal Navy.[1] The Royal Marines were formed in 1755 as the Royal Navy’s infantry troops. However, the marines...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Parachute Regiment, colloquially known as the Paras, is an elite airborne infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment is one of the most elite units in the world.[5] The first battalion is permanently under the command of the Director Special Forces in the...
