Sentence examples for regiment hold from inspiring English sources

Members of the regiment hold on to vivid memories of those who served with them on freezing hillsides, dodging bullets and mortars.

The regiment held a position known as "Frostbite Ridge", where they had to endure freezing conditions.

Supported by their artillery, the regiment held out until 17:00, when the Turks retired, having suffered heavy losses.

At 18 00 Turkish troops mounted a counter-attack against the Canterbury Mounted Rifles on the regiment's left, but the regiment held the position.

Nevertheless, the regiment held its position throughout the day until being withdrawn to a nearby hill that night, by which time it had suffered more than 30 percent casualties.

The Border Regiment held most of the western edge of the town, with scattered units filling the gaps to the north.

For the next day the regiment held a defensive position along the road, and then moved, dismounted, into the mountains to help the Australian Mounted Division extricate themselves.

The soldiers of the Wellington Regiment held their former commander in high regard and paid for the construction of the Malone Memorial Gate, white marble gates at the entrance to King Edward Park in Stratford.

Richard Schirrmann, who was in a German regiment holding a position on the Bernhardstein, one of the mountains of the Vosges, wrote an account of events in December 1915: "When the Christmas bells sounded in the villages of the Vosges behind the lines..... something fantastically unmilitary occurred.

Between battles, several regiments held formal debates on subjects like the constitutional issues raised by the war.

One of the more celebrated baseball matches among Union soldiers (and one that remains shrouded in mystery) is a contest between nine men from the 165th New York Volunteer Infantry and a team picked from soldiers of the 47th and 48th New York Infantry Regiments, held at Hilton Head, S.C., on Christmas Day 1862.