20 Facts About Bermuda Regiment

The new Bermuda Regiment's stand of colours was presented in November 1965 by Princess Margaret.

Badge of the Royal Bermuda Regiment combines elements from those of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, and the BVRC.

Whereas its predecessors often used the tropical-weight No 4 Service Dress during the summer months, the Royal Bermuda Regiment uses the same uniform year-round, worn during the summer in shirt sleeve order – usually, a short-sleeved tan shirt with no tie, whether worn with long trousers or shorts of the same weight and colour.

The Royal Bermuda Regiment is listed in the British Army Order of Battle as number 29th in order of precedence.

Bermuda Regiment made a number of recommendations, including the increase of the Regiment's strength to a full battalion of about 750, with three rifle companies and a support company.

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At its height, three-quarters of the strength of the Bermuda Regiment was made up of conscripts, although many soldiers, whether they initially volunteered or were conscripted, elected to re-engage annually after their initial three years and two months term of service was completed, with some serving for decades .

In 2018, the House of Assembly of Bermuda Regiment voted to abolish conscription, effective of 1 July 2018.

Bermuda Regiment operated its own Junior Leaders programme for many years, until it was absorbed into the separate Bermuda Cadet Corps in the 1990s.

The Junior Leaders had been part of the Bermuda Regiment, wearing the same cap badge and operating from Warwick Camp, whereas the Bermuda Cadet Corp was a separate organisation, operating through the island's secondary schools .

In 2001, following the September 11 attacks on the nearby United States, the Bermuda Regiment was deployed, taking over responsibility for the security of the Bermuda International Airport and other potential targets.

Bermuda Regiment successfully deployed a platoon of internal security trained soldiers to Barbados in 2007.

Bermuda Regiment provided a cordon at the Bermuda International Airport in October, 1996, when the Chinese ship, Xing Da, was brought to the island.

The role the Lincolnshire Bermuda Regiment adopted with the BVRC was similar to that it played with its own TA battalions, although the BVRC remained a separate unit.

Lincolnshire Bermuda Regiment was affiliated to The Lincoln and Welland Bermuda Regiment of the Canadian Army.

Bermuda Regiment developed a relationship with the United States Marine Corps, which had supplied a detachment to Bermuda for many years to guard United States Navy facilities.

Bermuda Regiment took part in its first exercise overseas in 1968, when twenty-eight personnel were deployed to Jamaica on 26 October, along with "A" Company of the York and Lancaster Regiment, for a four-week introduction to jungle warfare in the vicinity of Berriedale, in Portland.

The Bermuda Regiment inherited the SLR and the GPMG from its predecessors.

Bermuda Regiment decided not to wait for the SA80 and replaced the SLR with the American-made Ruger Mini-14 self-loading rifle in 1983.

Royal Bermuda Regiment soldiers attend a funeral at St James' Church in Somerset in August, 2016.

Royal Bermuda Regiment soldiers undergoing Junior Non-Commissioned Officer training at USMC Camp Lejeune in May 2018.