HuWG, I always liked the old numbers system... Maybe I just wanted to win the lottery... Your comments about the use of numbering in amalgamated units reminded me of my stint in the Australian Army Reserve. I served in two units, the 2/3 and the 5/11, both Field Artillery regiments, the latter being defined as a Field Artillery (light)armed with the old L5 Pack Howitzer. The interesting part is we referred to 2/3 as "second-third", while the 5/11 was always spoken of as "Five-Eleven". Reason there was none, so far as I could ever find out...... Oh, and our badge was the same old Gun that wouldn't fire, the wheel that wouldn't turn and the ....... (ex-gunnies will know) which the Royal Artillery use. Come to that, everything we had used to be British - or American - or Canadian - or Italian.