The British forces also launched a missile strike that destroyed the Baath headquarters in Basra, said Richard Gaisford, an ITN reporter embedded with the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.

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'Firing Line' brings together the history of The Royal Welsh regiment and the 1st The Queens Dragoon Guards - also known as the Welsh Cavalry.

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Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, Royal Fusiliers and the Black Watch pushed into the city.

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You can see the details of the announcement here - around six hundred soldiers will see their jobs disappear as a battalion of the Royal Welsh is scrapped, twice as many as were threatened in the Queen's Dragoon Guards.

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