Mentions:
1: David Davis (Con - Goole and Pocklington) A former member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, Derek Ferguson, was murdered in 1991, also at Coagh. - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) In fact, all the soldiers with whom I served were so fearful of loosing off their rifles at any stage - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Boateng (Lab - Life peer) One man who did and who never forgot it was a member of the Royal West African regiment. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) Still more enlisted in the British Army with the formation of the Caribbean Regiment in 1944. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) He joined the Anzac 5th (Wellington Rifles) Regiment on 10 August and was in Western Samoa before the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Harris of Richmond (LD - Life peer) By VE Day, 74 RAF Regiment squadrons were in north-west Europe, deployed on airfields throughout the - Speech Link
5: Lord Sahota (Lab - Life peer) I mention this because my maternal uncle, Santokh Singh, served in the same regiment and was awarded - Speech Link
Jul. 12 2024
Source Page: Grave of missing soldier identified in Belgium nearly 110 years after his deathFound: Gilliland arrived in Belgium on 18 January 1915, joining 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Rifles.
Jul. 12 2024
Source Page: Grave of missing soldier identified in Belgium nearly 110 years after his deathFound: Gilliland arrived in Belgium on 18 January 1915, joining 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Rifles.
Jun. 14 2024
Source Page: The Military division of The King's Birthday Honours List 2024Found: The Royal Welsh Colonel James David FORREST, Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Adrian HOLLIS, Royal Regiment
Mentions:
1: Will Stone (Lab - Swindon North) I am a proud veteran, as an ex-member of the armed forces in 1st Battalion the Rifles. - Speech Link
2: Richard Baker (Lab - Glenrothes and Mid Fife) is testament to the strong and proud connections that the kingdom has to the famous Black Watch regiment - Speech Link
3: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) and the Royal Yorkshire Regiment, selling poppies and reminiscing about our time served together, as - Speech Link
4: Robin Swann (UUP - South Antrim) Today’s date is a poignant one: it is the anniversary of the formation of the Ulster Defence Regiment - Speech Link
5: Jacob Collier (Lab - Burton and Uttoxeter) In Burton, veterans such as Carlton Wilkin, formerly of the Mercian Regiment, dress immaculately for - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: John Slinger (Lab - Rugby) the world—alongside the Special Boat Service, in case any of them are watching—comprises 21 SAS Regiment - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Max Wilkinson (LD - Cheltenham) I think of all those who served in the Gloucestershire Regiment and I think of my two grandfathers, both - Speech Link
2: Frank McNally (Lab - Coatbridge and Bellshill) Early in the war, Coatbridge hosted the Polish 1st Field Artillery Regiment for a short time after the - Speech Link
3: David Reed (Con - Exmouth and Exeter East) He joined the newly formed 12th Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment, or the Devons. - Speech Link
4: Melanie Ward (Lab - Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy) The regiment later went into battle in Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands in 1944. - Speech Link
5: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) My former regiment, the Duke of Wellington’s, saw action in France, Tunisia, Italy, India and Burma, - Speech Link
Asked by: Kenny MacAskill (Alba Party - East Lothian)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which British Army regiments have trained in Kenya since 2012; and on what dates that training took place.
Answered by Leo Docherty
The table below shows the Army units which have trained in British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK) between 2019 – March 2024. Due to a change in information technology systems and the way in which records are held, data prior to 2019 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Exercise date | Unit |
Feb – Mar 24 | 3rd Battalion, The Rifles |
Oct – Nov 23 | 1st Battalion, The Grenadier Guards |
Jun – Jul 23 | 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment |
Mar – Apr 23 | 1st Battalion, The Coldstream Guards |
Oct – Nov 22 | 1st Battalion, The Rifles |
Mar – Apr 22 | 1st Battalion, The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment |
Oct – Nov 21 | 2nd Battalion, The Rifles |
Feb – Mar 21 | 2nd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment |
Mar – Apr 20 | 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland |
Jan – Mar 20 | 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment |
Oct – Nov 19 | 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland 1st Battalion, The Coldstream Guards |
May – Jun 19 | 2nd Battalion, The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment 4th Battalion, The Rifles |
Feb – Mar 19 | 2nd Battalion, The Rifles |
Jan – Feb 19 | 1st Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment |
Jan. 08 2025
Source Page: FOI responses published by MOD: week commencing 6 January 2025Found: Shade to conform to pattern Royal Tank Regiment, All Ranks 19508. 106.