Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbfsb!cbnewsc!cbnews!cbnews!military From: chidsey@smoke.brl.mil (Irving Chidsey) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: British Regiments Keywords: History, Lineage, Honours Message-ID: <1991Jan25.032415.11578@cbnews.att.com> Date: 25 Jan 91 03:24:15 GMT References: <1991Jan24.032946.18864@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 29 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Irving Chidsey In article <1991Jan24.032946.18864@cbnews.att.com> bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt) writes: < 1st Royal Scots (Mechanised Infantry) < The oldest regiment (though not the senior regiment) in British < Army history - on continious service since 1633 (descendents of < Gustavus Adolphus' Green Grigade). Carries 137 battle honours. < < 1st Batallion Coldstream Guards (Infantry) < The senior regiment of British Infantry (1650) raised from the < village of Coldstream as Colonel Monk's Regiment then the < Lord-General's Regiment of Foot Guards. Only regiment to < trace an unbroken lineage from the New Model Army (1650). Please, how can one tell if it was on continuous service unless it was possible to trace an anbroken lineage? I presume the paradox is due to the formal definitions and rules of military heraldry, not to the definitions and rules of normal English usage. Irv -- I do not have signature authority. I am not authorized to sign anything. I am not authorized to commit the BRL, the DOA, the DOD, or the US Government to anything, not even by implication. Irving L. Chidsey