529:. 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
Wiltshire Regiment), at the centre of which was a silver Chinese-style dragon (from the badge of the former Royal Berkshire Regiment). The Chinese dragon was surrounded by a gilt/gold double coil of naval
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280:). 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.
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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
585:(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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1268:(1959–1968)
1260:(1958–2007)
1241:(1881–1966)
1233:(1881–1959)
1225:(1881–1959)
1217:(1881–1994)
1209:(1881–1968)
1201:(1881–1968)
1193:(1881–1968)
1185:(1881–1959)
1177:(1881–1958)
1158:(1802–1966)
1150:(1756–1966)
1142:(1755–1881)
1134:(1741–1881)
1126:(1824–1881)
1118:(1756–1881)
1110:(1758–1881)
1102:(1744–1881)
1094:(1758–1881)
1086:(1694–1881)
1078:(1868–1881)
1070:(1758–1881)
1062:(1793–1881)
1054:(1755–1881)
1046:(1862–1881)
1038:(1755–1881)
1030:(1741–1881)
1022:(1702–1881)
1014:(1685–1959)
1006:(1755–1881)
998:(1719–1881)
990:(1685–1958)
923:12 February
575:Grand-Place
426:Ballykinler
418:Rudolf Hess
402:West Berlin
293:the Bahamas
111:Nickname(s)
97:Garrison/HQ
1319:Categories
966:The Rifles
897:20 January
875:20 January
687:8 November
663:References
579:volunteers
516:(1 RGBW).
466:Aldergrove
454:Canterbury
438:Warminster
152:Ferozeshah
628:—Pakistan
589:Alliances
482:Hong Kong
470:Hong Kong
442:Osnabrück
353:Catterick
301:Caribbean
289:Wiltshire
253:Wiltshire
249:Salisbury
245:Wiltshire
43:1959–1994
816:(1998).
633:Freedoms
527:Cold War
502:Cold War
361:Malaysia
297:garrison
285:Tidworth
177:regiment
174:infantry
84:Infantry
798:20 June
731:20 June
709:19 June
639:Freedom
573:on the
461:Colours
448:of the
385:Belfast
267:at the
241:Devizes
218:Colours
187:History
179:of the
172:was an
147:Maiwand
105:Reading
48:Country
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557:and a
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365:Canada
349:France
347:, and
345:Norway
325:Minden
317:Cyprus
66:Branch
57:
40:Active
434:Essex
369:Derry
341:Libya
313:Malta
125:Quick
119:March
925:2019
899:2020
877:2020
849:ISBN
822:ISBN
800:2016
733:2016
711:2016
689:2014
653:1960
549:Band
200:and
168:The
134:Slow
89:Role
81:Type
424:in
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287:,
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