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Wow, thanks very much for those links. If only I found this website a year ago I would have saved so much time - darn Google filtering things regionally makes most of these websites impossible to find!
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Hi Clifford,good to hear from you. Well if you got an hackle for that price,count yourself lucky.About two years ago Michel P. wanted to buy some and was told that the current price was $15.00.....no discount.
Take care. Jo
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BCR/ Irish Fusiliers of Canada
Hello all......Thought you might be interested to know that the BC Regiment, in addition to adopting the Irish theme collar dogs, and as mentioned several other fusilier traditions, have formed a Irish Pipe and Drum band, wearing the uniform of the Irish Fusiliers of Canada (the Vancouver Regt), and they parade along side their military band.
Being a former Seaforth Highlander I kinda consider this blasphemy.....(except on St Patrick's Day), but we always try to humor the BCR's.....;o) Cheers....Jeff |
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Hello langet, if you have a chance to post some photographs,I'm sure some of us would be interested in seeing the "new" BCR Cadet band.
Jo
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BCR Pipe Band
Hi Voltigeur.....The band is part of the militia unit(or, sadly like most Canadian military bands, a volunteer or regt association sponsored band), so isn't part of the affiliated cadet units. As for pictures, http://www.irishpipesanddrums.com/ should give you some good pics. I believe that the badge on the bass drum is the regt's new collar dog. They also have some great shots of the original Irish Fusiliers band during WW2.
Cabar Feidh.......Jeff |
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Thanks langet. I went to the website and tried to enlarge some photos, but nothing doing.There are a few interesting ones there mainly the pre-war ones.
Regards Jo
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It would be easy enough to territorialise Britain's traditional infantry regiments
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It would be quite easy for all of the regiments that fought in the First and Second World wars to still exist: all could have a TA unit, and a few could have regular army battalions as well. Scotland, for example, could field 1 Scots Gds, 1 Roy Scots, and 1 Blk Watch in the Regular Army. In the TA, you could have every Scottish infantry unit: the KOSB in Edinburgh East / Musselburgh (with a platoon in Dumfries); 2 Roy Scots in Edinburgh West with a platoon in Livingstone, West Lothian; Cameronians (Scot Rif) in Lanarkshire (Airdrie and Motherwell); Roy Scots Fus in Glasgow South and Ayrshire (Kilmarnock); Arg & Suth High in Glasgow West; High Lt Inf in Glasgow North and West; 2 Scots Gds in Stirling and Fife (Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy); 2 Blk Watch in Perth and Dundee; the Gordons in Aberdeen; and the Seaforths in Inverness and Elgin. TA infantry units already exist in all or almost all of these locations, so this wouldn't be an expansion, just a reorganisation. Ditto for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The Cavalry would have to territorialise too. I think territorialising the infantry and cavalry would be a lot better than the current situation, where the TA units generally have NO actual history as fighting units, and get re-named after every round of defence cuts; and the regular force units might as well be called Regiment 1, Regiment 2, and Regiment 3. |
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