Een regiment is een militaire eenheid die verschillende betekenissen kan hebben. In het Nederlandse en Britse leger is het regiment de administratieve organisatie die de tradities van een eenheid bewaart en niet zozeer een organieke gevechtseenheid.

De parate eenheid van het Regiment Infanterie Johan Willem Friso werd in 1950 gevormd door het 422e Bataljon Infanterie, gelegerd op de Adolf van Nassaukazerne in Zuidlaren.Op 18 juli 1957 werd dit bataljon hernummerd in 44e Bataljon Infanterie en in 1960 werd de naam opnieuw veranderd in 44 Pantserinfanterie Bataljon (44 Painfbat).. Vanaf midden jaren 60 van vorige …

The 3rd United States Infantry Regiment is a regiment of the United States Army.It currently has three active battalions, and is readily identified by its nickname, The Old Guard, as well as Escort to the President.The regimental motto is Noli Me Tangere (from Latin: – "Touch Me Not").The regiment is a major unit of the Military District of Washington (MDW).

The 442nd Infantry Regiment (Japanese: 第442歩兵連隊) was an infantry regiment of the United States Army.The regiment is best known as the most decorated in U.S. military history and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in World War II.Beginning in 1944, the regiment fought primarily in the …

Geschiedenis. Omdat Willem François Boreel op 25 november 1813 van de Prins van Oranje opdracht kreeg een cavalerieregiment te formeren, geldt dit als de oprichting van het latere Regiment Huzaren van Boreel.Het regiment bestond uit vier eskadrons (elk twee pelotons); 641 huzaren en 677 paarden. Boreel werd zelf regimentscommandant, in de rang van luitenant …

The Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) was an infantry regiment of the British Army established in 1970, with a comparatively short existence ending in 1992. Raised through public appeal, newspaper and television advertisements, their official role was the "defence of life or property in Northern Ireland against armed attack or sabotage" but unlike troops from Great Britain they …

The formation of the Royal Tank Regiment followed the invention of the tank.Tanks were first used at the Battle of Flers–Courcelette in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme in the First World War. They were at first considered artillery, and crews received artillery pay. At that time the six tank companies were grouped as the Heavy Section of the Machine Gun Corps …

The Royal 22nd Regiment (R22R; French: Royal 22 e Régiment) is an infantry regiment of the Canadian Army.Known colloquially in English as the Van Doos (representing an anglicized pronunciation of the French number twenty-two, vingt-deux) or in French as le Vingt-deuxième, the mostly francophone regiment comprises three Regular Force battalions, two Primary …

A Scottish regiment is any regiment (or similar military unit) that at some time in its history has or had a name that referred to Scotland or some part thereof, and adopted items of Scottish dress. These regiments were created after the Acts of Union in 1707 between England and Scotland, either directly serving Britain during its various wars, or as part of the military establishments of ...

The regiment was raised in Scotland by Colonel Sir John Mordaunt as Sir John Mordaunt's Regiment of Foot in 1741. In 1743, Peregrine Lascelles was appointed Colonel and until May 1745, the regiment was employed building a military road near Loch Lomond, part of a new route from Dumbarton to Inverary. In July, Charles Stuart landed in Scotland to launch the 1745 …