Both sides used Numbers to identify their regiments and the State from where they originated. Thus their name is referred to by "16th North Carolina Regiment" and "7th Massachusetts Regiment". The...
442nd Regimental Combat Team of World War 2 fame. This unit was organized from Japanese-Americans during a time when the US did not trust anyone who looked like a Japanese. Japan had just attacked...
President Roosevelt was impressed with their training and on 1 February 1943, he directed the formation of a regiment that was designated the 442nd Infantry Regiment. With the addition of the 522nd...
The Mercians are the latest incumbents, but in WW1 it would have been the Worcestershire Regiment.
WR archive material & photographs are at the RHQ Mercian Museum in Crookbarrow Rd, Worcester...