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Thread #45486   Message #672718
Posted By: The Walrus at work
20-Mar-02 - 01:36 PM
Thread Name: Songs for St Georges Day
Subject: RE: Songs for St Georges Day
Of "The Grenadiers March" (which is not the same as "British Grenadiers") "...The late Cpt Graves, of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, tells us that only the bataillons with grenadier tradition are entitled to this music..."

Wilfred,

This would include every line (ordinary infantry) battalion in the British Army as, by the Napoleonic period, in each battalion, the right hand company (made of the tallest and most imposing men) was designated the Grenadier Company.

Regards

Tom