FM anger at cap badge speculation

Alex Salmond says any attempt to drop the names of historic Scottish army regiments shows "arrogance".

FM anger at cap badge speculation
Thu, 10 May 2012 13:31:15 GMT

This is a typical piece of Salmond bombastic bluster. The most enduring tradition of the British Army is that since Elizabethan times regiments have been raised, amalgamated and disbanded continuously. I wonder if he or his officials know that, for example, what we know now as the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards(Scotland’s senior regiment) is a recent entity, having been formed on 2 July 1971 from two other regiments and at the time of Waterloo were known as the Royal North British Dragoons, the 6th Dragoon Guards (The Carabiniers) or the 3rd or Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards depending on which of the forebear regiments you fancy!

So tradition has it that cap badges must go.

Sic transit gloria mundi