The Guards and Parachute Division is an administrative unit of the British Army responsible for the training and administration of the regiments of Foot...
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The Guards Division was an administrative unit of the British Army responsible for the training and administration of the regiments of Foot Guards and the...
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Infantry of the British Army (category Infantry units and formations of the British Army)
type of regiments: The Guards and Parachute Division has the regiments of Foot Guards plus the Parachute Regiment. The Union Division has the infantry regiments...
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Guards (SG) is one of the five Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. Its origins are as the personal bodyguard of King Charles I of England and Scotland...
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The Welsh Guards (WG; Welsh: Gwarchodlu Cymreig), part of the Guards Division, is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. It was founded...
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The Irish Guards (IG) is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army and is part of the Guards Division. Together with the Royal Irish Regiment...
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the parachute infantry component of the British Army's rapid response formation, 16 Air Assault Brigade. Alongside the five regiments of Foot Guards, the...
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The Coldstream Guards is the oldest continuously serving regular regiment in the British Army. As part of the Household Division, one of its principal...
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(1949–1957) 17th Gurkha Divisional Provost Company, Royal Military Police (1957–1969) Gurkha Independent Parachute Company, Parachute Regiment (c. 1960 –...
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as 6 (Guards) Platoon. The Guards Parachute Platoon is made up of volunteers who have passed P Company from the five Regiments of Foot Guards and Infantry...
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Regiment of Guards to form the current regiment, known as the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards. Since then, the regiment has filled both a ceremonial and protective...
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organisations called "divisions": Guards and Parachute Division – 2022–present Scottish, Welsh and Irish Division – 2017–present King's Division – 1968–present...
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98th Guards Rifle Division (ru:98-я гвардейская стрелковая дивизия). It incorporated 296th Guards Rifle Regiment (formerly the 18th Independent Guards Airborne...
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The Union Division is an administrative unit of the British Army responsible for the training and administration of regiments of line infantry. As part...
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Soviet Airborne Forces (category Military parachuting)
reconstituted as Guards Rifle Divisions. 37th Guards Svirsk Airborne Corps (19 January – 9 August 1944, and from 30 December 1944, 37th Guards Rifle Corps): Lieutenant...
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defense. These totaled 223 including the Imperial Guard. Additionally one parachute and four armored divisions were formed. Of this total no more than 35, that...
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London District (British Army) (category Military units and formations in London)
Guards. In September 1939, the district included the 1st and 2nd London Divisions, the 22nd Armoured Brigade, the Life Guards and Royal Horse Guards and...
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The 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division is the only elite guards (other than Spetsnaz VDV) division of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) (Military...
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Garrison Lightning Bolts Army Parachute Display Team, the parachute display team of REME, one of the four official Army parachute display teams. The head of...
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The Parachute Regiment is an airborne and special forces regiment of the Indian Army. It was raised in 1945 as part of the British Indian Army but was...
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Royal Armoured Corps (category Military units and formations established in 1939)
Queen's Dragoon Guards (QDG) - Light Cavalry – 7th Infantry Brigade & Headquarters East The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) (SCOTS DG)...
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1st Parachute Brigade which also included the 2nd and 3rd Parachute Battalions. The 1st Parachute Brigade was part of the 1st Airborne Division and remained...
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Army Air Corps (United Kingdom) (category Military units and formations established in 1942)
Parachute Regiment and Glider Pilot Regiment came under the umbrella of the Glider Pilot and Parachute Corps. In 1957 the Glider Pilot and Parachute Corps...
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merged with the Prince of Wales' Division, to form the Scottish, Welsh and Irish Division in 2017. The Scottish Division was formed on 1 July 1968 with...
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The 234th Guards Air Assault Regiment is a formation of the Russian Airborne Forces. It is part of the 76th Guards Air Assault Division. The regiment...
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The 4th Parachute Division, (German: 4. Fallschirmjäger-Division), was a divisional-sized formation in the Luftwaffe during World War II. It was formed...
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Royal Corps of Army Music (category Military units and formations established in 1994)
Scots Guards, at Wellington Barracks, Westminster, London Band of the Irish Guards, at Wellington Barracks, Westminster, London Band of the Welsh Guards, at...
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Royal Corps of Signals (redirect from 3rd (United Kingdom) Division Signal Regiment)
Corporal Thomas Waters of the 5th Parachute Brigade Signal Section was awarded the Military Medal for laying and maintaining the field telephone line...
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British Army (section Engineers, utility and signals)
Scots Dragoon Guards Brown—King's Royal Hussars, Royal Wessex Yeomanry Black—Royal Tank Regiment Dark (rifle) green—Royal Dragoon Guards, The Rifles, Royal...
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Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom) (category Military units and formations established in 1914)
collected by Major Sir Gerald Templer. The Corps trained operatives to parachute at RAF Ringway; some of these were then dropped over France as part of...
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