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    REGIMENTAL LINES

    Mar 17, 2022 7 minutes
    WRITTEN BY ALLAN MALLINSON

    Save the Argylls! Older Field readers may remember the campaign. In 1968, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, just back from a bruising tour of duty in Aden, were facing amalgamation. They were spared after a nationwide petition, and several of the other threatened regiments as well. The public liked the idea of their local regiment, especially if it bore the county or clan name, or had an enigmatic moniker such as ‘The Green Howards’ or ‘The Buffs’.

    That link with local people was at the heart of the plans for the ‘county regiment’ and had a clear objective: recruiting. As early as 1829, the former Secretary at War, Lord Palmerston, said that men did not like to enlist for general service; “they like to know that they are to be in a certain regiment, connected, perhaps, with their own county, and their own friends, and with officers who have established a connection with that district”.

    This was supremely true in World War I. ‘Is your home here?’ asked one recruiting poster, a map of the British Isles: ‘Defend it!’

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