County Regiments

[KLR]

Sean (Sapper)’s thread on a Buckinghamshire badge made me think about my boyhood badge collection which I started in the ?mid 1960s. I was advised to collect the (OR) cap badges of the infantry county regiments as they were in 1914 (cavalry badges were far too expensive to me anyway).

Many years later I added the badges of the TA (minor county) regiments (Monmouth, Cambs, Herts, Hereford and Huntingdon) – and I recently managed to get a Rutland badge which I’m calling a Rut Vol Regt (1stBn) as described here on the Forum.


It appears that the Scottish, Irish and Welsh regiments (though Monmouthshire is a border case !) had ‘recruiting areas’ rather than ‘counties’ and I found such a list a few years ago.

[BROOKIES]

Don't know if these are of help.

Ta

Jonathan

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[KLR]

Thank you Jonathan,
I was really only a idle thought. I'm not sure that there is anything to add to my collection.
However, here is the list I found a few years ago




Scottish county / town affiliations

Royal Scots Edinburgh, and locality

RoyalScots Fus Ayr,Kilmarnock, Ardeer, Goureck

Kings Own Scottish Borderers Dumfries,Galashiels, Berwick u/n Tweed

Cameronians Glasgow, Hamilton, Nigg, Paisley

BlackWatch Dundee,Perth,Arbroath, St Andrews

Highland Light Infantry Glasgow,Lanark, Hamilton

Seaforth Highlanders Rossshire, Caithness, Morayshire, Dingwall, Golspie, Elgin

Gordon Highlanders Aberdeen,Peterhead, Keith, Buchan, Banffshire, Donside, Deeside, Formatin, Shetland

Cameron Highlanders Inverness, Invergordon, Blairgowrie

Argylland Sutherland Highlanders Stirling, Paisley, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Dunoon, Argyllshire, Dumbartonshire



Irish county / town affiliations

Royal Irish Regiment Kilkenny, Clonmal (L) D1922

Royal Iniskilling Fus Omagh, Enniskillen (U)

Royal Irish Rifles Antrim, Down, Belfast, Lurgan (U)

Royal Irish Fusiliers Armagh,Cavan, Lurgan (U)

Connaught Rangers Galway, Boyle, Kilworth (C) D 1922

Leinster Regiment Drogheda, Fermoy, Birr, Maryborough (L) D 1922

Royal Munster Fusiliers Tralee,Kinsale, Cork, Limerick (M) D 1922

Royal Dublin Fusiliers Dublin,Naas (L) D1922

Irish Provinces:

C = Connaught

L = Leinster

M = Munster

U = Ulster


D = disbanded.



Welsh county affiliations

Royal Welsh Fusiliers Denbighshire, Flintshire, Caernarvonshire,Anglesey

South Wales Borderers Breconshire

Welsh Regiment Carmarthenshire,Pembrokeshire, Glamorganshire