1st King’s Dragoon Guards The 1st King’s Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army. The regiment was formed in 1685 as The Queen’s Regiment of Horse, named in honour of Queen Mary, consort of King James II. It was renamed The King’s Own Regiment of Horse in 1714 in honour of […]
Torsdag 30/10: Deltagelse i 10 Km Welcome Walk i Tokyo Centrum. Fredag 31/10: Tog til Higashi-Matsuyama. ( ca. 1 1/2 time ) Indkvartering (4 dage) i Womens Education Center eller Kaminuma Inn. Om aftenen afholdes der formentlig velkomst party. Lørdag 1/11: Deltagelse i 37th Japan Three Day March (5, 10, 20, 30 el. 50 Km) […]
341: British Infantry C-D Cheshire Regiment The Cheshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales’ Division. The regiment was created in 1881 as part of the Childers reforms by the linking of the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot and the militia and rifle volunteers of Cheshire. The […]
Gordon Highlanders The Gordon Highlanders was a British Army infantry regiment from 1881 until 1994. The regiment took its name from the Clan Gordon and recruited principally from Aberdeen and the North-East of Scotland. History The regiment was formed on 1 July 1881 by the amalgamation of the 75th Stirlingshire Regiment – which became the 1st battalion of the new regiment – and the 92nd Gordon Highlanders, which became […]
IML (International Marching League) The genesis of non-competitive walking events is the Nijmegen Vierdaagse. It is clearly, at that moment, the oldest and largest event of this nature in the world, with a history dating back to 1909. Due to the success of that event and because more and more foreign walkers were participating in […]
HALIFAX II DT620 SHOT DOWN OVER THE BALTIC SEA OFF STEVNS ON 14 MARCH 1943 The plane belonged to Royal Air Force 138 Squadron, Bomber Command, coded NF-T. It took off at 17:50 from Tempsford on an SOE mission to drop Zone Wrona 614 in Poland. On Air Station Kastrup Staffelkapitän Oberleutnant Martin Drewes of […]
UK Officers Training Corps & School badges 1
UK Medals 9th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers was raised at Wrexham on the 9th of September 1914 as part of Kitchener’s Second New Army and joined 58th Brigade, 19th (Western) Division. They trained at to Tidworth, spending the winter in billets in Basingstoke, they returned to Tidworth in March 1915 for final training […]