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This is a list of equipment of the British Army currently in use. It includes current equipment such as small arms, combat vehicles, explosives, missile systems, engineering vehicles, logistical vehicles, vision systems, communication systems, aircraft, watercraft, artillery, air defence, transport vehicles, as well as future equipment and ...
The British Army Training Unit Kenya ( BATUK) is a training support unit of the British Army located in Kenya . On 3 June 1964, Duncan Sandys, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, signed a post-independence defence agreement with the new Kenyan government. Among its other provisions, it specified that British troops could exercise in ...
The first British colonial settlement in Australia of Sydney was established in 1788 with the protection of four companies of the Corps of Royal Marines. In 1790 these were mostly replaced with soldiers of the New South Wales Corps, a regiment raised specifically for service in Australia. This regiment was based in Australia until 1810.
1 January 1948 – Four Gurkha regiments are transferred from the Indian Army to the British Army, forming the Brigade of Gurkhas. 28 February 1948 – The 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry becomes the last British regiment to leave India. 1948 – The Malayan Emergency begins. 1948 – The Army withdraws from Palestine.
This category has the following 20 subcategories, out of 20 total. British Army personnel by unit or formation (3 C) British Army personnel by war (29 C, 9 P)
Military career. Lindsay was commissioned into the Scottish Division of the Infantry on 7 August 1992. [1] After commanding the Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland on deployment in Helmand Province in Afghanistan in 2013, he became commander of 51st Infantry Brigade and Headquarters Scotland in May 2018. [2 ...
Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907. Territorial Army and Militia Act 1921. Timeline of the British Army 1900–1999. Categories: History of the British Army. 20th-century military history of the United Kingdom. Hidden category: Portal templates with redlinked portals.
t. e. The British Army during the American Revolutionary War served for eight years in the American Revolutionary War, which was fought throughout North America, the Caribbean, and elsewhere from April 19, 1775, to September 3, 1783. The war formally commenced at the Battles of Lexington and Concord in present-day Massachusetts.