The Dragons Regiment is a fictional regiment of the British Army featuring in the film Carry On Sergeant. The regiment serves as a training unit, based at Heathercrest National Service Depot near Leighton Buzzard, for National Servicemen undertaking their 10 weeks of basic training. The regiment is divided into training companies, each of which has four training platoons - each company is responsible for the training of a separate intake of National Servicemen, with no two companies at the same stage. While all of the recruits are National Servicemen, the officers and NCOs are all regular army. The action in Carry On Sergeant centres around the company commanded by Captain "Perfect" Potts (played by Eric Barker), which is responsible for Heathercrest's 60th intake of recruits - the four platoon sergeants in his company are Sergeant Grimshawe (William Hartnell), Sergeant O'Brien (Terry Scott), Sergeant Russell (Edward Deveraux) and Sergeant Matthews (John Mathews). At the end of the ten weeks basic training, each platoon is subjected to various tests of all they have learned, with the platoon gaining the best results is named Champion Platoon. Once the recruits have passed out, they are posted to various regiments and corps, no longer wearing the cap badge of The Dragons.
Note: The name of the regiment is never mentioned in the film - the only indication of what the regiment may be called is the shoulder titles worn by all ranks which bear the word "Dragons".
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