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Thread #47876   Message #715833
Posted By: GUEST,ozmacca
22-May-02 - 10:07 PM
Thread Name: Help: Which Regiment(s)
Subject: RE: Help: Which Regiment(s)
Aye, we Scots never forget....... Now I wonder who said that? It was me, wasn't it? Yes, I remember....

To try and keep some sort of music theme going in this fascinating discourse, I'm reasonably familiar with a fair few of those "He's-off-to-war-and-leaving-me-behind-boo-hoo" and "Come-and-enlist-and-get-maimed-and-killed-if-ye're-lucky" songs, but bearing in mind battlefield conditions in the smooth-bore and bayonet era, and my note about smoke obscuring everything, are there many about an actual full scale punch-up. "Kerry Recruit" deals with storming a redoubt and being wounded at (I think) the Alma in the Crimea... Any others?