Inherited old uniform regalia - need help!

[Peter Laidler]

Another point that Henry probably didn't want to mention is that some veterans have 'memories' that are what you'd best describe as er...., far fetched! Or that simply don't equate with reality or have been, let us say, 'clouded' by time or what others have told them or just what others - not me you understand - have described as pure twaddle. Sorry, but that's how I found some that used to visit us. The best, I found, were those from Korea.

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[browningautorifle]

some veterans have 'memories'

We used to be attended by a WW1 vet in the Snr NCO mess back in the '80s...during the Remembrance day festivities... He was too old to be at the bar and just a little old white haired man. The older NCOs would always put the newest Sgt beside him for entertaining him. Someone to fetch him "Nelson's blood" and whatever he needed. I don't recall him wearing decorations but he had a UK accent still. The only part of our chat I recall was him saying "I had a company of Green Howards' during the great war"... Those days are gone.

[Gil Boyd]

Jim,
You are right there..........now called the Rifles with all those great Regiments like the Green Jackets lost inside them, with the Green Howards making up the Yorkshire Regiment.
Those amalgamations, and also those famous Scottish Regiments now swallowed up by Royal Regiment of Scotland....sad times indeed, I often wonder, why they needed to do that in my time, so to speak.
Lets hope the youth of tomorrow bring them all back as Armies will naturally increase due to the many plates they are spinning around the world!!

Looking forward to speaking to many veterans in Normandy in the next few weeks.