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  Uniforms - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The head-dress of Highland regiments is a " feather bonnet "-a loose fur cap of peculiar shape with hackle.
Of the Baden regiments, the 109th and sloth (guards and grenadiers) have white plumes and white shoulder-straps, the 109th having the Swedish cuff with patches, the double guard stripe, and silver buttons.
The 108th is a rifle regiment, and wears a green tunic with fl red-edged collar and cuffs, dark grey trousers and a shako with fl plume looped to one side in the Austrian fashion.
www.1911ency.org /U/UN/UNIFORMS.htm   (13602 words)

  
 77th Regiment of Foot
There have been three different regiments numbered as the 77th in the British Army
77th (Hindoostan) Regiment of Foot; later 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot (1787-1881)
This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
encycl.opentopia.com /term/77th_Regiment_of_Foot   (100 words)

  
 The Hunt History
In the artillery it refers to a regiment of artillery.
For soldiers of the British Army a regiment is the primary and predominate military organizational unit.
A regiment is commanded by a Colonel (William Sherbrook Ramsay Norcott in this case) and has it's own number and title with distinctive designations that reflect it's own unique historical traditions.
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 Western Front Association - Len's Bookshelf, Non-Fiction, Current-2004-05
A social history of two AEF units: the African-American 369th Infantry Regiment; and, the Lost Battalion of the 77th Division) made up largely of Jewish, Italian and Eastern European Americans from New York City.
The work describes the formation from 1916 and campaigns on the Western Front of British battalions formed from recruits shorter than the standard five foot, two inch minimum height for British soldiers.
The Harlem Hell Fighters of the 369th Regiment (15th New York National Guard) were part of this division, whose individual infantry regiments fought under French command.
www.wfa-usa.org /new/lens_new.htm   (10376 words)

  
 Long Family Tree
William Dillon, a prominent farmer, became a captain in the Indiana Militia, 75th and 77th Regiment in 1838 and 1840.
He first settled on what is now called Dillon Hill near White River.
The snow was a foot deep and terrible ugly and disagreeable too.
www.poe.ourfamily.com /long.html   (17686 words)

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