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June 8, 2020 at 8:47 pm #1536572

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@m30wm1x I’m doing the 1st Battalion of the Royal Hampshires, also in the 50th. Similar, but slightly round-about reason. My Great Great Grandad served in the Middlesex Regiment in the 2nd Boer War and the First World War, however the Middlesex served in Italy, I believe, and I wanted to start with NW Europe, so I did the Royal Hampshires because the two of them merged in one of the multitudinous reforms into the Princess of Wales’ Royal Regiment…which I actually applied to join myself once upon a time… I’m going for the Panzer Lehr Division for my Germans, though I have always been intrigued by the Luftwaffe Feld Divisions…though never 100% found a way to place them in France…

Edit: I just looked it up and the 1st Battalion of the Middlesex were at Hong Kong (a.k.a. Bad Times) and they existed as MG Battalions in the 51st (Highland) and 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Divisions, which is why I didn’t do them; MG Battalions don’t exactly fit into standard Bolt Action organisations… Maybe I could do a work-around in future, though…

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