Hackles up over MoD ‘promises’
Regimental pipe bands will now not wear their regimental attire and will start to wear the uniform of the RRS.
Regimental names will now appear at the end of their titles and in brackets, and we are confidently told they will disappear altogether.
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Hide AdHackles are to be standardised and the famous red hackle of the Black Watch is to reduced to the size of a plume.
The promises that we were a bit wary of have now come to nothing. The creditable regimental insignias once loved and revered by soldiers and the general public have almost evaporated and the only way of recognising a regiment will be the tiny plume of feathers in their headgear, which will I should imagine will disappear as well.
Thank God the regimental associations live on and the MoD can’t interfere with them.
Major Bob Ritchie, Livingston