Post World War II Tours of Duty
From 1949 to 1952 the regiment took part in the campaign against Chinese and Malayan Communist Terrorists in Malaya. After 1952 it served in Afghanistan, Austria, West Germany, Suez, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Libya, Belize, Berlin and Northern Ireland.
- Falklands War (1982) one Regimental Officer (Gavin Hamilton) killed in action.
- First Gulf War (1991)
- Bosnia (1996–1997)
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“My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel—not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.”
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“By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.”
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