Sentence examples for 1st battalions from inspiring English sources

The amalgamation of the 1st Battalions of the two regiments took place on 31 January 1959 at Minden, Germany, to form the 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's).

At 8 00, as the sun rose, the American platoon heard explosions and guns around Buchholz Station and Losheimergraben to the east and north where the 3rd and 1st Battalions of the 394th Infantry Division was located.

At the same time, Japanese riflemen infiltrated the American positions and effectively harassed the command posts of both the 3rd and 1st Battalions as well as the column of heavily loaded American supply and engineer parties on the hacked-out jungle trail linking the battalions with the Lunga perimeter.

It is the most senior of the corps' regiments in the order of precedence, and currently consists of seven Regular Army light infantry battalions: 1st Battalion (1 RAR) 2nd Battalion (2 RAR) 3rd Battalion (3 RAR) 5th Battalion (5 RAR) 6th Battalion (6 RAR) 7th Battalion (7 RAR) 8th/9th Battalion (8/9 RAR).

These battalions include the 1st Battalion, 310th Regiment, 1st Battalion, 311th Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 311th Regiment, and 1st Battalion, 313th Regiment.

The Welsh Guards, 1st Battalion, and the Mercian Regiment, 2nd Battalion, had only 72% of their target strength, while the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, 1st Battalion, had only 74%.

Since 1970 the 1st battalion has been deployed in Northern Ireland.

The brigade included the 1st Battalion Light Infantry, the 1st Battalion the Royal Regiment of Wales, the Queen's Royal Hussars, and 26 Royal Artillery.

He is intelligence officer for the 1st battalion, 2nd Brigade of the 4th Iraqi Army division.

He later returned to Vietnam to command the 1st Battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment and then the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion.

The 1st battalion was the last British battalion to serve in Berlin between 1992 and 1994.