Royal Bermuda Regiment

Royal Bermuda Regiment
Cap Badge of the Royal Bermuda Regiment
Active1 September 1965
Country Bermuda
BranchArmy
TypeLine Infantry
RoleInternal security
SizeOne Battalion
~350 reserve soldiers[1]
Garrison/HQWarwick Camp
MarchQuickBermuda
Anniversaries21 November 1965, presentation of the first colours.
Websitewww.bermudaregiment.bm Edit this at Wikidata
Commanders
Commanding OfficerLt. Col. Benjamin Beasley
Colonel-in-ChiefBirgitte, Duchess of Gloucester
Honorary ColonelCol. David Gibbons

The Royal Bermuda Regiment (RBR) is the home defence unit of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda. It is a single territorial[2] infantry battalion that was formed on the amalgamation in 1965 of two originally voluntary units, the mostly black Bermuda Militia Artillery (BMA) and the almost entirely white Bermuda Rifles (titled the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (BVRC) until 1949), and the only remaining component of the Bermuda Garrison since the 1957 withdrawal of regular units and detachments from Bermuda.

  1. ^ "Royal Bermuda Regiment". www.gov.bm.
  2. ^ "Territorial Army – definition of Territorial Army in English from the Oxford dictionary". Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2016.