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Which Regiment/Corps would you join?

Started by Ian Bowbrick , Mar 12 2003 01:44 PM

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#176 Piorun

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Posted 10 July 2009 - 03:31 AM

You're a tough guy to admit that you signed on with the provosts  biggrin.gif

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Posted 10 July 2009 - 09:39 AM

I was in the RAMC and a Army Cadet in Portsmouth (Wessex) , my granddad served in both the Royal artillery & Hampshires my other granddad served with the East Yorkshires, my great-uncle served in the Coldstream guards and my mum served in the WRAC attached RA which my Dad & uncle also served I come from a very long line of Army relatives ,  but I would have to say I would serve in the RAMC... once RAMC always RAMC

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Posted 10 July 2009 - 10:01 AM

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QUOTE (Ian Bowbrick @ Mar 12 2003, 02:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
One of colleagues at work has brought in her son today. He saw me looking at the main website and then asked me 'Which regiment did I serve in during the war?'     dry.gif  rolleyes.gif  biggrin.gif
Kids - don't you just love 'em!
Anyway it got me thinking...... Imagine it is 1914, war has just been declared and you want to do your patriotic bit. Which Regiment/Corps would you put down on your attestation form as the one you would be willing to serve with?
I shall ignore my old unit, the RAOC, and stick with the local boys, the East Surrey Regiment.
Anyone else.......................
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#179 Kevin Tobin

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Posted 10 July 2009 - 12:56 PM

52nd Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire  Light Infantry, please.

#180 Bingo794

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Posted 20 July 2009 - 11:28 AM

In 1914, it would have to be my Grandfather's 2nd Bn. Lincolnshires (his first regiment joined 1898 underage) or a tad later, his second unit, the 1/5th Bn. of the Lincolnshires.

Getting to France 01/03/1915, he was invalided out by November, 1915. Due to being wounded twice.

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Posted 23 October 2009 - 05:22 AM

Royal Scots or Royal Artillery if in Scotland
AIF if in Australia


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Posted 23 October 2009 - 10:35 AM

Royal Garrison artillery like my grandfather, failing that with the signallers, being an old RAN communicator.
Footsloggers - never.

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Posted 06 November 2009 - 04:34 AM

Well it would have to be my user name 27th Battalion AIF as for one my house is on the the exact spot where the main barracks complex was during the training for ww1 and since then i have done a lot of research for this battalion.Ok as to what i know now probably a staff officer in HQ doing the paperwork 10 miles behind the front line  biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif    
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#184 Geoff Greensmith

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Posted 06 November 2009 - 07:53 AM

Would join one of the West Yorkshire Regiments from my local area.


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Posted 06 November 2009 - 08:24 AM

I would have signed-up for the RNVR in innocent expectation of service at sea - only to be dupped into Khaki with the formation of the RND.
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#186 Doc

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Posted 11 November 2009 - 07:33 PM

My local Regiment of course ! - The Black Watch
Nearly joined them 30 years ago however, a RN Recruiting Officer made me a offer I couldn't refused!

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Posted 11 November 2009 - 08:12 PM

Without wishing to sound pompous, the Intelligence Corps! However, one obstacle, I would have to wangle a commission first.

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Posted 11 November 2009 - 08:25 PM

it would have to be the Yorkshire Regiment.

My grandfather  and at least one other relative served with the Duke of Wellington's, and his nephew with the 16th West Yorkshires, before winning his MC  with the East Yorkshire Regiment in 1918. One of my uncles served in Burma with the York and Lancaster regiment during WWII. Of those I have traced, amazingly only one died in WWI.

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#189 Jonathan D'Hooghe

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Posted 19 November 2009 - 02:42 PM

I reckon a good jaw jaw has to be preferable to a good war war anyday but if there is any romance and derring do to be attached to WW1, then going to war on a horse with a sword must be it. So XX Hussars with my grandfather and great uncle would do it for me.

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Posted 21 November 2009 - 01:24 AM

One of my Great Grandfathers was in the 1st Manchesters and the other the Royal Garrison Artillery.
But I would join the Australian 9th Battalion.

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Posted 23 November 2009 - 10:10 AM

A number of AIF Bns come to mind, it's funny how family history can influence interest so much. If I was to look at my better-halves family history I'd say the 13th/45th Bn AIF and looking at my direct family history 34th or 36th BN AIF. Yep, from this reply most Aussies will see that my wife and I are from NSW and are now living in North Qld.  rolleyes.gif

#192 judy7007

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Posted 23 November 2009 - 02:23 PM

QUOTE (Andrew P @ Mar 13 2003, 03:31 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I would have to say the 10th Light Horse Regiment or if I failed my riding test; the 11th Battalion AIF.
These were the first two Western Australian units formed in 1914.

Cheers
Andrew


These would definitely have been my two choices too.  Obviously just "in my dreams"

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#193 Franz Davini

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Posted 23 November 2009 - 05:26 PM

I am a proud "conscientious objector" to the use of firearms (against living beeings, not as a sport).
Military service was compulsory here in Italy 30 years ago, with conscription of all males. When I signed, I decided that in case of refusal of my application for a civil service, I'd have asked to join the Alpini Corps, 5th Regiment, Tirano Battallion. Beeing a mountaineer the choice for the Alpini, also the least "militarist" branch of the Army, was obvious. There was an alternative anyway: one year in jail.....
Luckily my application was accepted.

#194 ianjonescl

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Posted 28 December 2009 - 12:31 PM

As an ex Gunner it would have to be Artillery - but the dilemma is which branch.

I think I would have opted for the Royal Garrison Artillery, as this is where many of the modern advances in the science of Artillery developed. Battery Commander of the BL 14 inch Railway Gun would have been interesting.

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Posted 31 December 2009 - 06:26 PM

Spose it would have to be the RAMC, once a medic always a medic, especially knowing what we know now about what was coming. I think something along the lines of one of the general/stationary hospitals at Etaples maybe.

However, given the premise that it is 1914 and I'm of a enlistment age then it would have been The Buffs.

Youth = immortality afterall.

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Posted 14 April 2010 - 02:37 PM

Women's Auxiliary Balloon Corps

#197 Candave

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Posted 22 April 2010 - 08:23 PM

RCA or RCHA

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Posted 28 June 2010 - 01:52 PM

I would follow my great uncle and father into the Monmouthshire Regiment

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Posted 13 August 2010 - 07:59 AM

My first choice would have been to join the territorials local to my area of birth, 1/6th South Staffordshires, but if I had been turned down for having lived in Shropshire since, I would have joined the 4th Battalion KSLI.

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Posted 24 March 2013 - 03:54 AM

Its a very difficult question?....mmmmm.....

Perhaps the 10th Liverpool Scottish... I could have then met my Hero Noel Chavasse.....
or the RFA, following in the footsteps of my Dad and Granddad?

If I was joining a German Regiment then it would have to be the 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment..... a Bullet would have then
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