Sentence examples for old regiments from inspiring English sources

Mercer's funeral was attended by many men of his Division and from his old regiments as well as numerous Canadian and British officers who had worked alongside him.

"That's the old regiment," he chides.

It gave him great pleasure to be asked to create a memorial for his old regiment.

He had been meant to go into his father's old regiment.

He was buried in June from St . Patricks and all his old regiment, and his old friends came to see him go on his last journey.

He expects to rejoin his old regiment, with which he fought bravely in the Boer War, but finds he's too old for active service.

The first Afghan gig was about it being my dad's old regiment, me coming from East Anglia and Clive [Tulloh - his producer] knowing [Brigadier] Lorrimer.

His range and power have evolved since he became a solo artist, though he still enjoys his collaborations, not least with the "old regiment" of Fairport Convention with whom he plays most years at Oxfordshire's Cropredy festival organised by the band's stalwart, Dave Pegg.

He explained that the "cells of the Parish Prison were unfavorable to the development of the skill of the 'New Orleans Nine.'" Crossley was released that summer as part of a general exchange of prisoners, rejoined his old regiment in October, and fought again in campaigns at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor.

For starters, if Harry really wants to go back on the ground with his old regiment, rather than looming around the skies above Afghanistan in the relative safety of an Apache helicopter, he has gone about it in a strange way.

Discharged in September 1864, having survived the battles of The Wilderness ("the most terrible 24 hours of our service in the war"), Cold Harbor ("How long will it take to whittle us away?"), Petersburg and many in between, Dawes wrote to his wife, Mary, from Washington, "I am fairly heart-sick at the stories of blood I hear from the old regiment.