In Reply to: County regiments posted by Dilly on Sun, Oct 09 2022 at 05:11 AM CDT:
That is a very interesting idea Dilly, and so true in that it's the regiment one serves in, not where one comes from. As a Surrey boy, in 1966 naturally I signed up with the Surreys. But in Canterbury for training at that time you had the option of choosing to move to one of the other 3 regiments housed there in what was then the Home Counties Brigade. Johnny Blanchette was my section commander, and very fond of telling us the R. Sussex was the BEST. So along with Geoff Lee and a couple of others, I switched, and was in the last contingent to join the 1st Bn in Lemgo at the end of that year before it became the Queens. Although my mother later moved to Sussex, I still think of myself as a Surrey boy, but I'll always be a Sussex man as well.