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County Regiments
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. Last edited by KLR; 25-10-17 at 07:35 PM. |
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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 |
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