About: 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : platform.yourdatastories.eu:8890 associated with source document(s)

The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, commonly the Rhodesian Light Infantry (1RLI or RLI), was a regiment formed in 1961 at Brady Barracks, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia as a light infantry unit within the army of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. A year after its creation it relocated to Cranborne Barracks, Salisbury, where its headquarters remained for the rest of its existence.

Attributes	Values
rdfs:comment	The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, commonly the Rhodesian Light Infantry (1RLI or RLI), was a regiment formed in 1961 at Brady Barracks, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia as a light infantry unit within the army of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. A year after its creation it relocated to Cranborne Barracks, Salisbury, where its headquarters remained for the rest of its existence.
foaf:name	1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry
foaf:nick	The Saints The Incredibles
foaf:depiction
active years end year	1980-01-01(xsd:dateTime)
active years start year	1961-01-01(xsd:dateTime)
anniversary	1961-02-01(xsd:dateTime) 1965-11-11(xsd:dateTime)
battle	Rhodesian Bush War
colour name	Green and white
commander	dbpedia:Lieutenant_colonel
country	Republic of Rhodesia ((After 1970))
disbanded	1980-10-31(xsd:dateTime)
garrison	Harare
march	dbpedia:When_the_Saints_Go_Marching_In
mascot	Cheetah
military branch	Rhodesian Security Forces
military unit size	Battalion
motto	Various; none officialref\|The RLI had no official motto. Commonly used, but unofficial, mottoes were coined during its existence; perhaps the most well-known, "They have the faces of boys but they fight like lions", was created by Platoon Warrant Officer Herod of the Rhodesian African Rifles on 18 March 1968, and put forward as a possible motto by Captain Ronald Reid-Daly on 4 November 1969. "The Incredible Rhodesian Light Infantry", originally a toast to the regiment by Prime Minister Ian Smith on its seventh birthday, 1 February 1968, is an alternative, having given the RLI one of its nicknames, "The Incredibles". Finally, the words of Lieutenant-General Peter Walls on the 14th Regimental Day, 1 February 1975, are sometimes used; "Thank God for the Rhodesian Light Infantry". The Latin motto since adopted by The Rhodesian Light Infantry Regimental Association, Pugnamus Amo Leo, translates into English as "To Fight Like Lions".\|group="n"\|name="motto"
notable commander	dbpedia:Lieutenant_colonel
role	Commando
thumbnail	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rhodesian_Army_flag_late_1970s.png?width=300
type	dbpedia:Infantry
is rdfs:seeAlso of	French Foreign Legion
is military unit of	G.L.M.; D.C.D.; M.B.E. Coey, John Alan

Faceted Search & Find service v1.13.91 as of Nov 14 2017

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3212 as of Mar 29 2016, on Linux (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu), Single-Server Edition (68 GB total memory)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software