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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Famous quotes containing the words post, world, war and/or duty:
“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.”
—Clara Barton (1821–1912)
“The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don’t know what they are conserving.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)
“If we don’t end war, war will end us.”
—H.G. (Herbert George)
“[Women’s] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.”
—Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904)