518:. The work also includes details of regimental insignia, uniforms, battle honours, the Queen's and Regimental Colours, the origins and development of the RHQ and museum, the regimental march, regimental traditions and officers' mess customs, and listings of the Colonels of the Regiment, and the Commanding Officers and Regimental Sergeant Majors of 1 DERR. There is also a regimental Roll of Honour showing details of the nine soldiers who fell while serving with 1 DERR on operations between 1973 and 1993, or while serving with other units elsewhere.
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The regimental badge of the new regiment was a silver cross patee (from the badge of the former
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Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) was published, this work having been commissioned by the regimental committee a few years earlier, in the wake of the 1994 amalgamation. This comprehensive account of the regiment focuses extensively
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269:). This red backing was configured as a square (with the red colour showing between the four arms of the cross patee) where the badge was worn as a collar badge or on a peaked cap, but as an inverted triangle approximately 2 X 2.5 inches in size where it was worn on the beret.
401:, serving alongside two other British infantry battalions and the allied US and French troops who together bore responsibility for the defence of West Berlin throughout the Cold War period. One of the battalion's duties included guarding the last remaining prisoner at
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Edinburgh's Royal Regiment would be required to amalgamate with another infantry regiment, in accordance with government decisions taken to expedite the
574:(IRA). The bombing injured seven bandsmen and eleven civilians. Fatalities were avoided as only some of the band's 30 members arrived (the rest were stuck in city traffic) and the band members that were there were dressing away from the stage.
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in 1801). This rope coil was surmounted by the ducal coronet of the regiment's
Colonel-in-Chief in gilt/gold. The badge was invariably set upon a piece of red material known as the Brandywine Flash (commemorating the regiment's action at the
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809:. Pen & Sword Books, Barnsley.
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830:Potter, John (2001).
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1198:(1881–1968)
1190:(1881–1968)
1182:(1881–1968)
1174:(1881–1959)
1166:(1881–1958)
1147:(1802–1966)
1139:(1756–1966)
1131:(1755–1881)
1123:(1741–1881)
1115:(1824–1881)
1107:(1756–1881)
1099:(1758–1881)
1091:(1744–1881)
1083:(1758–1881)
1075:(1694–1881)
1067:(1868–1881)
1059:(1758–1881)
1051:(1793–1881)
1043:(1755–1881)
1035:(1862–1881)
1027:(1755–1881)
1019:(1741–1881)
1011:(1702–1881)
1003:(1685–1959)
995:(1755–1881)
987:(1719–1881)
979:(1685–1958)
912:12 February
564:Grand-Place
415:Ballykinler
407:Rudolf Hess
391:West Berlin
282:the Bahamas
100:Nickname(s)
86:Garrison/HQ
1308:Categories
955:The Rifles
886:20 January
864:20 January
676:8 November
652:References
568:volunteers
505:(1 RGBW).
455:Aldergrove
443:Canterbury
427:Warminster
141:Ferozeshah
617:—Pakistan
578:Alliances
471:Hong Kong
459:Hong Kong
431:Osnabrück
342:Catterick
290:Caribbean
278:Wiltshire
242:Wiltshire
238:Salisbury
234:Wiltshire
32:1959–1994
805:(1998).
622:Freedoms
516:Cold War
491:Cold War
350:Malaysia
286:garrison
274:Tidworth
166:regiment
163:infantry
73:Infantry
787:20 June
720:20 June
698:19 June
628:Freedom
562:on the
450:Colours
437:of the
374:Belfast
256:at the
230:Devizes
207:Colours
176:History
168:of the
161:was an
136:Maiwand
94:Reading
37:Country
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546:and a
530:: The
354:Canada
338:France
336:, and
334:Norway
314:Minden
306:Cyprus
55:Branch
46:
29:Active
423:Essex
358:Derry
330:Libya
302:Malta
114:Quick
108:March
914:2019
888:2020
866:2020
838:ISBN
811:ISBN
789:2016
722:2016
700:2016
678:2014
642:1960
538:Band
189:and
157:The
123:Slow
78:Role
70:Type
413:in
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