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This Regiment was founded forty one years ago on
15 July
We are also unique (as a large unit) in that all members live in a fairly close geographic area. This permits us to meet on a short notice and also allows us to hold monthly exercises. No other major regiment can do this. According to the British publication Military Modeling,the 10th Foot is the finest 18th Century British re-created regiment in the world, for its uniform and accoutrements and for the bearing of the officers and soldiers. Other regiments have associations with their modern equivalents; the 64th Foot received one of their colours from a Major General of the Staffordshires and the 23rd Foot has had a long affiliation with the Royal Welch Fusiliers, especially with Lieut Colonel Vivian of the RWF. But no other British, French or American re-created regiment has had and still has such a close association with the UK for such a long period of time. For twenty years every commanding officer of 2 Royal Anglian has welcomed us as part of the Lincolnshire/Anglian family. Many visits back & forth have transpired. It is and always has been an extremely important part of what we are. From the beginning! Without British officers like Major
Dawney, Brigadier Oulton, Major We are a garrison regiment. No other regiment looks like us. No other regiment can perform 18th century maneuvers like us. No other regiment comes close to being the premier British Redcoat regiment. Standing in the parade on November 2000 in Concord, we honoured the memory of a soldier of the King's Own (4th Foot) who gave his life for his King. It was a particularly moving ceremony for me. For truly, if you believe in an afterlife and the immortality of man's soul, then the spirit that was that man was watching. We weren't play acting that day. We were the 10th Regiment of Foot. We were reliving something from the past and honouring someone from that past. So to truly honour those fine men who were the 10th Foot we have to be the finest outfitted and drilled regiment that we can be. That means hard work. It’s easy to be slovenly. Its easy to slough our way through the drill. Its easy not to polish our brass and silver. And its easy to ignore orders from Serjeants and Officers. And to see this, just look around you at some other units at weekend events. We are different. That is why you joined
this Regiment. As Adjutant I have a responsibility to our traditions;
a responsibility to the officers who preceded me and to those
that come after me. And each officer and soldier has a similar
responsibility to the past, to the present, and to the future. Major Richard
E Amsterdam
Men of Harlech is a splendid Welch tune which you hear when this page loads. It is an old tune going back to the 18th century or before and is the Regimental March of the 23rd Regiment of Foot, The Royal Welch Fusiliers. Rhyfelgyrch Gwyr Harlech |
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by Col Vincent J-R Kehoe. The purpose of the Regiment was, and still is,
to honour the Redcoat soldier, specifically the soldier of the 10th Regiment
of Foot as he was in camp on 18-19 April 1775. Our mission is to exemplify
a garrison regiment. Therefore our exercise (drill) is to approach perfection,
our accoutrements polished to a gleaming high finish and our uniforms
to be of highest quality, our small clothes to be starched white. And
anything else short of this is not 10th Foot.
This
Regiment is the only one founded with the permission of the Regimental
Association affiliated with its modern day equivalent (10th Foot
Royal Lincolnshire Regimental Association). For the first twenty-five
years of the regiment's history all men were life members of
the Association and all officers were formally commissioned as
honourary officers by the president of the Association. Unfortunately
due to the retirement of the Regimental Association this is no
longer the case.
General Sir Christopher Welby-Everard and especially
Major General Dick Gerrard-Wright this regiment would not exist
today. For it was British officers in the Ministry of Defence
in London who helped research the old 10th Foot so that we can
be as accurately outfitted and exercised as we are today. Officers
who worked long and hard. For no compensation. But to see us
develop. So that we could take pride in the re-establishment
of the old 10th Foot. And that pride is now ours. We can be proud
of how we look. We can take pride in being able to perform the
18th century exercise as accurately and smartly as possible.
To take pride in our position, whether officer, NCO or ranker.