by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffords) is an infantry regiment of the British Army, which is recruited from five of the counties that formed the ancient kingdom of Mercia. Known as ‘The Heart of...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Light Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Light Division. History The regiment was formed on 10 July 1968 as a large regiment by the amalgamation of the four remaining light infantry regiments of the Light Infantry Brigade...
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...
