Minden day -

[Rog Ball 01]

And a good morning to all.

Is 1 Aug and its Minden Day, and as the RWF, we dont wear the roses as the other 8 regiments do.

Rog

[Chrish]

A Rose For Minden

A Rose! A Rose for Minden Day!

Put up your roses on Minden Day!

Lads from the rolling boarder hills

From Lancashire looms and the Yorkshire mills

Miners’ sons from the grey Welsh towns

Farmer lads from the Hampshire downs

Lads from the hay-fields down Suffolk Way

To remind the world that it’s Minden Day!

“You got a rose, Jim, same as me

“ Wearin’ ‘n all down the line, they be

“Folks in Lyndhurst would think us scats

“ Fightin’ with roses in our ‘ats . . .!

“Withdraw yer ramrod! . . .prime yer pan,

“Takin’ time from the fugle man . . .!

“Can’t see nowt in this blasted smoke

“Wot stings yer eyeballs an’ makes yer choke!

“I’ve emptied my cartouche-box . . . fired the lot

“Gawed! Ain’t my perishing’ musket’ out . . . !

“ Steady there Jim! . . .I’ve got yer, lad!

“ I’ll lay yer down if they’ve ‘urt yer bad

“ Where ‘ave they ‘it yer? . . . In the ‘ead

“ Why don’t yer answer? . . .Oh, Gawd! . . .’e’s dead!

“ We been together, lad, share an’ share

“ Since we took the shilling’ at Lyndhurst fair

“ Ain’t never wanted a better friend

“ And now they’ve killed yer . . . an’ that’s the end!

“ They’ve beat the advance, Jim, so here’ ‘Goodbye’!

“ It’s hard ter go on, lad, and let yer lie . . .

“ I’d leave ye a keepsake afore I goes

“ But I ain’t got nothin’, Jim . . . only me rose!

It’s Minden Day! It’s Minden Day!

We put up our roses on Minden Day!

Lads from Suffolk, Hampshire, Wales

Lancashire, Lowlands, and Yorkshire Dales

To remind the world that we fight the way

Our fathers taught us on Minden Day!

[Dai72]

With the new badge we don't!! It was on the old.