The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. The regiment was created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881, when the 42nd R
1892 painting of a regimental sentry
Illustration of the regiment after the Battle of Magersfontein
Regimental soldiers firing rifle grenades, 1917
10th (Service) Battalion, Black Watch entrenching in the hills between the villages of Aivatli and Laina above the port of Salonika, Greece, December 1915
The Second Battle of Fallujah, initially codenamed Operation Phantom Fury, Operation al-Fajr was an American-led offensive of the Iraq War that began on 7 November 2004 and lasted about six weeks.
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…to be moved further north, outside of the British-controlled Multi-National Division (South East), to replace forces temporarily redeployed for the Second Battle of Fallujah. Despite objections in Parliament, the deployment went ahead. Based at Camp Dogwood, located between Fallujah and Karbala, in an area later dubbed the…
U.S. Marines from Mike Battery, 4th Battalion, 14th Marines, firing an M198 howitzer from Camp Fallujah (November 2004)
A Bradley Fighting Vehicle and HMMWV providing security while Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Four (NMCB-4) clear debris from the streets of Fallujah, Iraq.
US Army Infantrymen from TF 2–7 CAV prepare to enter a building during fighting in Fallujah.
An M1A1 Abrams fires its main gun into a building to provide suppressive counterfire against insurgents.