Sentence examples for battalion the from inspiring English sources

They were both from 3rd Battalion, The Rifles.

In a statement to the House of Commons, Hammond said five battalions would disappear in the reorganisation – the 5th Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland, 2nd Battalion the Royal Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire regiment, 3dr Battalion the Mercian Regiment and the 2nd Battalion the Royal Welsh.

He joined the 6th Battalion, the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1943.

The battalion — the 6888th, just over 800 women strong — did not have a particularly glamorous assignment.

Part of the 15th Military Intelligence Battalion, the unit is based at Fort Hood, Tex.

It was the site of the city's only tank battalion, the First Battalion, 101st Cavalry Division.

Men of the support company of the 1st Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, had shot without justification.

The base is home to the 2nd Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.

A roadside bomb had killed yet another soldier from the battalion the day before.

Certainly, the First Battalion the Parachute Regiment knew of the Red Caps' movements.

William Bray of the 7th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, Drop Zone N, Ranville.