MOD cuts

[Whizz_Bang]

A dark day for the British army.
my heart goes out to specifically to the Watch.

Lost Regiments of the line.

The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
The King's Regiment (Liverpool)
The Royal Norfolk Regiment
The Lincolnshire Regiment
The Devonshire Regiment
The Suffolk Regiment
The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own)
The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own)
The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
The Leicestershire Regiment
The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
The Lancashire Fusiliers
The Royal Scots Fusiliers
The Cheshire Regiment
The Royal Welch Fusiliers
The South Wales Borderers
The King's Own Scottish Borderers
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
The Gloucestershire Regiment
The Worcestershire Regiment
The East Lancashire Regiment
The East Surrey Regiment
The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
The Border Regiment
The Royal Sussex Regiment
The Hampshire Regiment
The Northamptonshire Regiment
The South Staffordshire Regiment
The Dorsetshire Regiment
The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
The Welch Regiment
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
The Essex Regiment
The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
The King's Shropshire Light Infantry
The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
The King's Royal Rifle Corps
The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's)
The Manchester Regiment
The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)
The York and Lancaster Regiment
The Durham Light Infantry
The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
The Gordon Highlanders
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
The Royal Ulster Rifles
The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's)
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own).

400 years of heritage up the creek.

[OLL]

Bloody hell!! You don't realise until you see it as a list.

[Whizz_Bang]

These are regiments that have dissapeared over the last 60 years........ they're in order of the line btw, Royal Scots 1st foot, Quenns 2nd etc etc.....

[OLL]

Mindblowing stuff whizz! My Granddad's (Lincolns) and my Great Granddads (East Yorks) just pages in a history book. Depressing!

[Gordon]

it's a little upsetting really. Each regiment has it's own honours and entitlements. A full history that no other regiment has - by taking away a regiments individuality you take away pride that was earned by each soldier of each regiment. As sharpe says in the books 'I couldn't give a damn about fighting for england - i fight for my regiment, my colours, and my friends'.