Is the Left Determined to Kill Our National Identity? ; Folly of Extremists Who Want to Consign a Glorious History to the Dustbin

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DURING World War II the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders endured a challenge to its identity that some veterans considered almost as threatening as the presentday plan to merge it into a single super- regiment. So many English recruits were absorbed into its ranks that it became known as the Argyll and Bolton Wanderers.

The reason for this unprecedented mixing of soldiers from separate parts of Britain was compassionate. In the Great War of 1914-1918 friends from single towns, villages or even schools had all volunteered together. Mobilised as units, they died together amid the grim, mechanised slaughter of the Western Front.

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Is the Left Determined to Kill Our National Identity? ; Folly of Extremists Who Want to Consign a Glorious History to the Dustbin

The effect on their home communities was devastating. Dozens, sometimes hundreds of families, would learn of the death of loved ones at exactly the same time.

By 1939 it was recognised that mixing recruits into different units would be less cruel, at least to those left behind. With conscription in force from the beginning, as it had not been in World War I, the objective was easily achieved.

This blending together of servicemen produced an additional benefit. As Britain stood alone against the mighty Nazi war machine, P...

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