• The British Army primarily divides its infantry into regiments, which are subdivided into battalions. However, for various reasons, since the end of the...
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  • The Infantry of the British Army comprises 49 infantry battalions, from 19 regiments. Of these, 33 battalions are part of the Regular army and the remaining...
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    has an incremental company assigned to public duties in Edinburgh Allwood, Greg (2022-05-13). "Know Your Infantry – why are some British Army regiments...
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    Guards and Parachute Division (category Infantry divisions of the United Kingdom)
    District (plus five incremental companies); although the guards are most associated with ceremony, they are nevertheless operational infantry battalions, and...
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    Guards (Army Reserve Light Infantry) Public Duties Incremental Companies at Wellington Barracks Nijmegen Company, Grenadier Guards No. 7 Company, Coldstream...
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    horse-drawn transport companies and divisional headquarters support detachments. A British infantry battalion had 4 companies and a machine-gun section...
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  • british-army-units1945on.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2021. "British Army units from 1945 on – Field, Infantry & Armoured Workshops 6 to 10". british-army-units1945on...
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  • form two new Companies with historic links for future role". British Army. Retrieved 16 September 2022. Tanner, Jim (February 2023). "Infantry Reductions...
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    by the British Army. The British Army designs were forced by the trench warfare in which neither side could achieve more than small incremental gains without...
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    Basing Programme and Operation Owl, and the return of 20,000 British troops. The British Army retains a presence at a small number of installations primarily...
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  • from Congress authorized ten companies of riflemen. The first full regiment of Regular Army infantry, the 3rd Infantry Regiment, was not formed until...
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    King's Guard (category British Army traditions)
    to the infantry led to the reduction of the 5th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland to an incremental company (similar to the three companies of foot...
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    Guards Division (category Infantry divisions of the United Kingdom)
    District (plus three incremental companies); although the guards are most associated with ceremony, they are nevertheless operational infantry battalions, and...
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    Royal Regiment of Scotland (category British Army)
    infantry regiment of the British Army Infantry. It consists of three regular (formerly five) and two reserve battalions, plus an incremental company,...
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    is a numerical designation system used for the type classification of British Army weapons and related stores. The L number in isolation is not a unique...
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    a single battalion (the 1st Battalion), an independent incremental company (Number 7 Company, maintaining the customs and traditions, as well as carrying...
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    Union Division (category Infantry divisions of the United Kingdom)
    the British Army responsible for the training and administration of regiments of line infantry. As part of the Future Soldier reforms of the Army announced...
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    teal and orange stripes on the left. In regiments of infantry of the British Army and the armies of other Commonwealth countries, each battalion carries...
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    troops, with a focus on improved crew survivability. The Army planned on acquiring 1,874 GCV infantry fighting vehicles to replace Bradleys in 16 active and...
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    Lee–Enfield was the standard-issue weapon to rifle companies of the British Army, colonial armies (such as India and parts of Africa), and other Commonwealth...
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    Irish Guards (category British Army)
    British Army and is part of the Guards Division. Together with the Royal Irish Regiment, it is one of the two Irish infantry regiments in the British...
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    Battle of Polygon Wood (category Use British English from August 2019)
    Army in August) with a vastly increased amount of artillery support, the infantry advancing behind five layers of creeping barrage on the Second Army...
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  • Sergeant (category Military ranks of the British Army)
    Police Force has the additional rank of incremental sergeant (three chevrons and a crown). This is an incremental progression, following an appointment...
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  • Brown Bess (category British Army equipment)
    The musket design remained in use for over a hundred years with many incremental changes in its design. These versions include the Long Land Pattern,...
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    Foot guards (category Infantry)
    Kongelige Livgarde). It is primarily a mechanized infantry regiment in the Danish Army, with the Guard Company of the regiment performing guard/ceremonial public...
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  • Infantry is a core part of the Army's Brigade Combat Teams. The most numerous variant, the Infantry Brigade Combat Team, comprises light infantry battalions...
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    slow, but by 1945, over 12,000 had been manufactured. It remained the British Army's primary artillery field piece well into the 1960s, with smaller numbers...
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    Foreign Infantry Regiment near Damascus). General Henri Dentz and his Vichy Army of the Levant were eventually defeated by the largely British allied forces...
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  • Light Division (category British light infantry)
    a light infantry division of the British Army. It was reformed in 2022, as part of Future Soldier reforms. Its origins lay in "Light Companies" formed...
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  • Private (rank) (redirect from Army private)
    term as all infantry troopers were renamed as jääkäri troops, previously reserved only to mobile light infantry. As in the British army, the various...
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