ARmy Rumour SErvice

There was a 3RGJ one on ebay recently with 'Last Battalion in Gibralter' across the top.

This guy will make whatever one you want.
Hand made regimental Badges

Slightly off topic but I was brought up as a service brat before I joined up myself, and I remember that what is now called Bingo was originally a service game ( I think it started with the British Army in India) called Housey- Housey.

Anyway in 1957 I travelled out to Hong Kong with my mum and brothers to join my dad who was stationed at Kia Tak. We went out on HMT Asturias and because Suez was blocked at the time went round the cape. They played a lot of Housy- Housy on the ship, but they often used regimental and squadron names instead of just calling out actual numbers. For example Black Watch would have been 42, and I remember that when number three was called everyone shouted "Steady The Buffs".

I'm rambling here a bit but, I remember An Army Education corp lad who used to give all us kids a bit of schooling on deck, and he could go right through all the numbers on the card just giving the names of the regiments that had that number.

So not exactly an unusual regimental or unit plaque, but what the fuck, I thought it might be of interest, also wonder if any of the old and bold could reel off a lot of regiment names to match the numbers nowadays.
Any takers?

Originally Posted by kilo42

Slightly off topic but I was brought up as a service brat before I joined up myself, and I remember that what is now called Bingo was originally a service game ( I think it started with the British Army in India) called Housey- Housey.

Anyway in 1957 I travelled out to Hong Kong with my mum and brothers to join my dad who was stationed at Kia Tak. We went out on HMT Asturias and because Suez was blocked at the time went round the cape. They played a lot of Housy- Housy on the ship, but they often used regimental and squadron names instead of just calling out actual numbers. For example Black Watch would have been 42, and I remember that when number three was called everyone shouted "Steady The Buffs".

I'm rambling here a bit but, I remember An Army Education corp lad who used to give all us kids a bit of schooling on deck, and he could go right through all the numbers on the card just giving the names of the regiments that had that number.

So not exactly an unusual regimental or unit plaque, but what the fuck, I thought it might be of interest, also wonder if any of the old and bold could reel off a lot of regiment names to match the numbers nowadays.
Any takers?

Save yourself the trouble, they're all here:

http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?titl...ntry_Regiments

Originally Posted by Jaeger

Save yourself the trouble, they're all here:

http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?titl...ntry_Regiments

Thanks for that Jaeger.

The thing is if you sat down and actually worked out how many units etc you've worked with during a decent length of service you'd amass a goodly collection of plaques, some of which would be slightly different to say the least.

Originally Posted by Jaeger

Save yourself the trouble, they're all here:

http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?titl...ntry_Regiments

The 2007 60th lineage is wrong

Yep Options for Change muddied the waters for that, they obviously mean 4 RIFLES but actually the old 2 RGJ had become the post-Options 1RGJ so would have become 2 RIFLES. But because of the amalgamation under Options the lineage had become muddled. The way to sort it I suppose would have been to allocate the 43rd (Oxfordshire LI) to the 95th (Rifle Brigade) and the 52nd (Buckinghamshire LI) to the 60th (KRRC).