From The Archives
It is our expectation that this category showcases a collection of articles balanced between our founder regiments and between the centuries.
From The Archives
It is our expectation that this category showcases a collection of articles balanced between our founder regiments and between the centuries.
Edward Ryan fled his home in Ireland during the troubles of the 1920s across the Irish Sea to England where he joined the British Army as a boy recruit at the age of 14.
April 2012 Trooper Thorne, aged 20, from the Queen’s Royal Hussars, was shot by an enemy fighter while on operations in Helmand province Afghanistan.
The 7th Queen’s Own Hussars stayed in Italy after the war for a while before moving north and ending up in June 1946 at Soltau, in northern Germany, as part of the occupying Army.
The 8th (King’s Royal Irish) Hussars had spent a year in England after the Crimean War before being called to India to help suppress the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and by February 1858 they were ready for war.
Sgt Ron Hearn and his crew of RECCE Troop pose in front of a knocked-out 88mm in Wietzendorf.
The Silver War Badge was issued in the United Kingdom to service personnel who had been honourably discharged due to wounds or sickness during World War I.
… When he received intelligence that a riot was brewing, the local Chief of Police would approach the nearest Magistrate and request him to declare a State of Emergency …
Fort Capuzzo was a fort in the colony of Italian Libya, near the Libyan-Egyptian border and next to the Italian Frontier Wire.
During the Boer War Churchill was employed as a war correspondent for the ‘Morning Post’ On November 15, the Boers captured Churchill and threw him into a POW camp in Pretoria.
I have the honour to submit my report on the ambush in which my troop was involved on 19th December 1949, at the 43rd mile Bentras-Jerantong Road.