Special Air Service (Reserve) - Know as 'The Regiment' contains contact information about joining the reserve elements of this unit.
London Scottish Regiment - Information and resources related to the regiment including history and events.
Royal Gloucestershire Hussars - Based in Cirencester, a history, information and photographs of this regiment with over 200 year of local history.
52 Lowland Regiment - Senior TA infantry regiment. Includes company locations history and adventurous training events.
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We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
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-- G. K. Chesterton Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
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-- Mark Twain The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
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"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
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- Saint Augustine Territorial Army Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
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-- Yiddish Proverb Territorial Army Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
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Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
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