REGARDING the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, I thought you might be interested in the fact -- that is exactly 50 years ago -- when the East Lancashire Regiment returned home from Egypt after years of guarding the Suez Canal.
The Regiment was met at Southampton by the Mayors of Burnley and Blackburn and the Regiment was given the Freedom of the City, giving them the right to march through the town with bayonets fixed and flying colours.
Veterans of this campaign have just started being issued with the medals they earned -- only 50 years late!
Some will never receive them, they are no longer with us. I am one of these who are still around, forgotten maybe but still proud of my Regiment.
It was the finest in the British Army, don't let these chinless wonders in government deprive Lancashire of its military history, 'stand up and be counted', should be the motto of this county's campaign to keep its history.
It would be betrayal on a disgraceful scale if the proposed plan to merge the finest Regiment ever to serve their country goes ahead.
H P BUTLER, Lever House Lane, Leyland.
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