Dai,
I was hoping you were joking, but I've met too many, far, far too serious people who would defend their hobbies with that sort of fable so I wanted the facts to be clear.

Penny,
Small societies & politics, tell me about it ! I've seen it happen more times than I care to remember. The folk club I regularly attend started in a similar way. :)

In terms of this thread, our company in the KA was disbanded, by the KA, (not by our parent regiment) for "persistant malignancy". Which translated as "being more interested in historical re-enactment than in the King's Army." The first we knew about it was the official printed announcement when we arrived at the event ! (I still resent this.)
The members walked out of the KA and joined the RA (Lord Saye & Sele's Regiment, ex Diggers) the same day and the KA lost it's only (at that time) authentic musket company, en masse. All for internal politics we didn't even know about. Stupid, stupid, stupid ! (I still resent this !)

AndyG