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Old 14th Jun 2015, 10:05
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the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, already an amalgamation of 3 county regiments.
Generally known as "The M4 Rangers"!

a lot of regimental silver was either donated by individuals or captured from the enemy. ( A PC way of saying The French).
Not always the French. At one time the Royal Welsh Fusiliers were in possession of a quantity of solid gold plates, etc, which the regiment "liberated" from the Chinese imperial palace during the Relief of Peking after the siege of the legations there during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. Wonder what happened to that?
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