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Originally Posted by johndallman
The Blues and Royals is his regiment, but officers can get lent out to other units. His service in Afghanistan was as a forward air controller, with a Ghurkha unit. So he was serving with an infantry unit, but was not an infantry officer AFAICS.
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I investigated, and it turns out that during his first, truncated tour in 2007–08 he was assigned to the Brigade HQ of the
52nd Infantry Brigade. There are [sometimes] Gurkha battalions in the brigade, but it is not itself a Gurkha unit, but a Lowlands Scottish one.
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester was an infantry (Rifles) officer during part of his regular career 1922 to 1937 (hussars in the rest), but when he was deployed in 1940 it was with an armoured brigade.
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Originally Posted by johndallman
If several battalions are deployed together, they are formed into a brigade, and it's unlikely that the battalions will be from the same regiment.
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There can't be many regiments left that have more than one battalion after the last thirty years of disbandments and mergers. Except that Royal Artillery Regiment, of course. That still has about twenty regiments in it and a few loose companies, troops, and batteries.