Word: regimentations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program for the NTS men, which will be attended by the whole regiment of communications students, will be held in Sanders Theatre. Beginning of 9 o'clock, there will be a half hour of entertainment for the visible audience only, then the broadcast will begin with the usual music interspersed with interviews with the S-0s and so forth, lasting until...
There are Grenadier Guards. In 1677 the noisy grenade was introduced into battle and each regiment got a grenadier company of picked men. Gradually the word grenadier became synonymous with elite. At Waterloo the Guards defeated Napoleon's last hope, his Imperial Guard, so decisively that they were awarded the title Grenadiers. At Ypres in 1914, 61 officers and 650 men of the Grenadiers went into action, and four officers and 150 men came...
...British regiments (in contrast to those of the U.S., which contain only three battalions) are geographic, professional, and sometimes almost social organisms, and can be expanded indefinitely in wartime. A regiment raised from an English county may contain as many as 35 battalions. British regiments may therefore be scattered through several divisions, several armies...
Died. Alastair Arthur, 28, Duke of Connaught & Strathearn, great-grandson of Queen Victoria; in Government House, Ottawa, Canada. A member of a Scottish regiment who had served two years with the British Army in Egypt, he was the last of his line; the title ended with...
...cadets will form in the Yard at 2:15 o'clock, and, led by the undergraduate FA Regiment, will swing down Boylston Street to the music of the 241st Coast Artillery band. Arriving at Soldiers Field, they will first be inspected and then pass in review before the visiting group...