Talk:95th Regiment of Foot

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I just removed this:

The 95th "Rifles" Regiment of Foot also survives in the form of the 82nd "HMHK's" Light Mobile Infantry, permanently assigned to the UN forces. > The regiment's nickname (HMHK's) derives from the fact that the regiment was the first british outfit to be armed with the Heckler and Koch rifle. Thus the nickname His/Her Majesty's Heckler and Kochs's.

I have absolutely no idea what it's talking about, but it sounds like fiction being interpreted as fact. "Light mobile infantry"? The 82nd merged into the South Lancs, and are long gone... Shimgray | talk | 13:13, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

The last regiment to be numbered as the 95th was formed in 1823 as the county regiment of Derbyshire, raised at Winchester. The regiment saw active service during the Crimean War and in the Sepoy Rebellion in India, before it was amalgamated with the 45th Foot (The Sherwood Foresters) in 1881 to form the Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment).

is this text right? I know they sometimes do weird things but why would a nomially derbyshire regiment be raised in Winchester? murray.booth

I just edited: The purpose of the regiment was to have the riflemen working in open order and be able to think for themselves, a method completely unheard of prior to its formation. to: The purpose of the regiment was to have the riflemen working in open order and be able to think for themselves.

Other nations used this technique at the same time, so this is stretching facts a bit.

And: On top of this, the unit's operation was markedly different from the line infantry by being taught instead of flogged, holding regular shooting and sporting competitions and by being rewarded for achievements. to: On top of this, the unit's operation was markedly different from the line infantry by a lack of flogging, holding regular shooting and sporting competitions and by being rewarded for achievements.

Saying that line infantry weren't taught things is also stretching things quite a bit. I can't vouch for the truth of the fact (less flogging in the 95th than other regiments) either, but nor can i disprove it. Needs citation.

Canute