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Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, Royal Fusiliers and the Black Watch pushed into the city.
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The British forces also launched a missile strike that destroyed the Baath headquarters in Basra, said Richard Gaisford, an ITN reporter embedded with the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.
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More than 300 soldiers from The Rifles and the King's Royal Hussars, the 1st Battalion Irish Guards and 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards took part.
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Later in the day, a soldier from the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, died of a gunshot wound.
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'Firing Line' brings together the history of The Royal Welsh regiment and the 1st The Queens Dragoon Guards - also known as the Welsh Cavalry.
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For Horse Guards Parade, in the heart of Whitehall, has been hosting the Royal Military Tattoo.
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You can see the details of the announcement here - around six hundred soldiers will see their jobs disappear as a battalion of the Royal Welsh is scrapped, twice as many as were threatened in the Queen's Dragoon Guards.
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