There was a school of thought, and I agreed with it, to let 'our' third battalion go and form the Royal Hampshire & Sussex Regiment. This would have saved the name 'The Queen's', Englands oldest Regiment, and preserved a two battalion Regiment based on the 2nd and 3rd of Foot (including 31st, 50th etc). General Mike Reynolds, the Colonel of the Regiment, and a GREAT man, however, was implacably opposed to breaking up the existing Queen's Regiment. He had seen it all before, and had been promised, as we all had been, that, having formed a large regiment with relatively good grace in the '60s 'we' would NEVER have to be fcuked around again Ha Ha!