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Originally Posted by Toby Purcell
I wonder if “42nd Battalion” OCA refers to old comrades of the 1st Bn BW, and then a 73rd Battalion might have referred to old comrades of the 2nd Bn BW. Some regiments preserved association with their numbered forebears in such ways. I can’t think what else 42nd Battalion might mean as late as 1947.
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When my father was in the KRRC in WW2 they were still calling themselves the 60th Rifles.
My grandfather, in the late 1960s, was still telling me how he was in the "Dirty Half Hundred" in WW1.