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Thread #47907   Message #717107
Posted By: Paul from Hull
24-May-02 - 10:06 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
Nice one Teribus! Thats new to me, though I've heard the Colonel Bragg thing before.

Keith, We've had a discussion on McCaffery/McCaffrey/Macassery before (cant remember which of those 3 spellings it was under, & I'm naff at doing 'blickies' anyway) but somebody found online (or actually typed out) a long piece that I have in a book, & which identified the Regiment as the 32nd Foot, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry... who had been Stationed at Fulwood....though the 47th (The Lancashire Regiment, yes?) would seem to make considerable sense too.

OzMacca, the Inniskillings or Enniskillens (as they have been called at some points in their history, I believe) were most certainly a British Army Regiment, though recruited in Ireland (there is a castle (& now a town) in Ireland named Inniskilling)

Well..the only song I can think of to mention is a version of the Scarlet & the Blue/Khaki & the Blue... I dont know who collected it, but the Watersons, no less, title it 'The Tatton-Sykes Waggoners Militia Recruiting Song'

There..I get around to song eventually.....*G*