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Sorry to disagree Vic (Your post 8) But the Buffs were not 1st regiment a Foot as The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the oldest, and therefore most senior, infantry regiment of the line in the British Army having been raised in 1633 during the reign of Charles 1st of Scotland.
The Buffs, formerly the 3rd Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army until 1961.
So Vic " Steady the Buffs" but get back in line mate.
Just for a bit of useless information I down loaded this. A lot of History and Pride gone with all the amalgamations over the years.
• 1st Regiment of Foot (The Royal Scots, Royal Regiment of Foot)
• 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot (Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot) — had never been named after its colonels having been
o The Tangier Regiment 1661-1686,
o The Queen's Regiment 1684-1686,
o The Queen Dowager's Regiment of Foot 1686-1703,
o The Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot 1703-1715,
o The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment of Foot 1715-1727 and
o The Queen's Own Regiment of Foot 1727-1751
• 3rd Regiment of Foot alternatively called The Buffs Regiment of Foot (East Kent Regiment of Foot (The Buffs))
o The Holland Regiment 1665-1689,
o Prince George of Denmark's Regiment 1689-1708,
o known by its colonels' names 1708-1751
• 4th (The King's Own) Regiment of Foot (King's Own Regiment of Foot)
— never been named after its colonels having been
o 2nd Tangier Regiment 1680-1684,
o The Duchess of York and Albany's Regiment of Foot 1684-1685,
o The Queen's Regiment of Foot 1685-1703,
o The Queen's Regiment of Marines 1703-1710,
o The Queen's Own Regiment of Foot 1710-1715 and
o The King's Own Regiment of Foot 1715-1751
• 5th Regiment of Foot (The Northumberland Regiment of Foot)
— briefly (1674-1675) The Irish Regiment otherwise known by its colonels' names
• 6th Regiment of Foot (1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment of Foot)
• 7th Royal Fusiliers (Royal Fusiliers)
— having earlier been known as Our Royal Regiment of Fusiliers or Our Ordnance Regiment or by its colonels' names
• 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot (The King's Regiment of Foot)
— had never been named after its colonels having been
o The Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Foot 1685-1702,
o The Queen's Regiment of Foot 1702-1716,
o The King's Regiment of Foot, 1716-1751
• 9th Regiment of Foot (The East Norfolk Regiment of Foot)
• 10th Regiment of Foot (The North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot)
• 11th Regiment of Foot (The North Devonshire Regiment of Foot)
• 12th Regiment of Foot (The East Suffolk Regiment of Foot)
• 13th Regiment of Foot (1st Somersetshire Light Infantry Regiment of Foot)
• 14th Regiment of Foot (Bedfordshire Regiment of Foot/Buckinghamshire Regiment of Foot)
• 15th Regiment of Foot (The Yorkshire East Riding Regiment of Foot)
• 16th Regiment of Foot (Bedfordshire Regiment of Foot/The Buckinghamshire Regiment of Foot)
• 17th Regiment of Foot (The Leicestershire Regiment of Foot)
• 18th Regiment of Foot (The Royal Irish Regiment of Foot)
• 19th Regiment of Foot (1st North Yorkshire Riding Regiment of Foot)
• 20th Regiment of Foot (East Devonshire Regiment of Foot)
• 21st Regiment of Foot (Royal North British Fusiliers/Royal Scots Fusilers Regiment of Foot)
• 22nd Regiment of Foot (The Cheshire Regiment of Foot)
• 23rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Welch Fusiliers)
• 24th Regiment of Foot (2nd Warwickshire Regiment of Foot)
• 25th Regiment of Foot (Edinburgh Regiment of Foot/Sussex Regiment of Foot/King's Own Borderers Regiment of Foot)
