Quote Originally Posted by Roberts 7017 View Post
As a member of the Battalion what rank does he hold and how many Regimental goats has the Battalion had ?
thanks from Minden : Rob 17
Billy is currently a LCpl (He was 'bust' to Fus in Cyprus but has since been promoted).

Referance how many goats the Battalion has had is one for our historians as i believe there is no precise record of how we came to have one. The earliest formal record was when in 1777 Maj Robert Donkin, of the Regiment, wrote in his Military Collections and Remarks that 'The Royal Regiment of Welch Fusilierz has privilegeous honour of passing in review preceeded by a goat with gilded horns, and adorned with ringlets of flowers', and that 'the Corps value itself much on the ancientness of the custom'.