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Originally Posted by rob carman
Thanks. I have learnt a lot from this thread. Rob.
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Because of their rifles lineage it is quite likely that the appointment held in the VB was bugler. Just as in a similar way the sergeants wore the pouch belt that was also unique to those units with a rifles heritage. In a typical British compromise, the scarlet of British line, but the ‘appointments’ of rifles. It suited them to be different to the norm within the regiments that they were obliged to join, and went some small way to allay the principal objection to merger, that their identity would be completely subsumed.