The politicians will never understand the genuine pain and heartbreak it caused lads (and whole communities) when Regiments were done away with. Especially ones like this which spanned a border and a religious schism and built many bridges in a divided community. Madness.

@johnallen7807

2 жыл бұрын

They know the price of everything but the value of nothing.

@moodypeter2975

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with Jammy Dodger , Politicians should leave the military alone , my late father was a Skin , 27th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

@BRITISHFURY_1664

2 жыл бұрын

Madness?!!? THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!

@scottfuller1711

2 жыл бұрын

Liberals can't create their hate groups when regiments like this are bringing people together.

Ken Shipton. Joined regiment at Paderborn in 48 as a driver operator. Went on to Dingo as 15 Able. Am one of the oldest surviving members at 92. Memories of the regiment marching to church for Oates Sunday service. In those days there was no fraternising but the locals turned out to welcome us.

My father Christopher Patrick Mchugh served with them from 1928-60. India/China many years - Malaya etc. Burma onto BAOR. Infantry. Finally transferred to REME Mill Hill Armorer. Clearly I'm proud....

It must be heartbreaking for serving British military personnel to watch this fine tribute to an excellent regiment that captures the end of the glorious and well funded years.

A very very sad day! This ultimately happened to my regiment, the Queens Own Hussars. The decimation of proud historic regiments. They like to call it an “amalgamation”. It’s not.it’s sad!

@lewissmith3896

2 жыл бұрын

Amalgamation my a**e.

@johnmiller8863

2 жыл бұрын

Militarily to be in Libya and

@robertbaldwin4565

2 жыл бұрын

@@lewissmith3896 Llpp0

@michaelwackers6475

2 жыл бұрын

BUT some weren't even amalgamated! Like the proud CAMERONIANS!

@soldier-Dave

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelwackers6475 these proud warrior regiments need to be brought back with increases in our military strength!

I may be a Rock Ape but by god, this video is brilliant it's demonstrating adapting overcoming, and getting the thing done. PER ARDUA

Thanks for this, I have attended most of the skins reunions for the last 20 years, my dad was a tank commander, did cold weather trials in Canada with the Centurian and served in Korea. He loved his regiment, what a great body of men and how proud they all are/were of the skins. Fare thee well

Excellent but Moving sad Farewell. Only just found this film on You Tube, brought back memories of seeing The Band and the Regiment, marching through Manchester many years ago, and always remembered the distinctive green trousers with the broad yellow stripe. Shame they were amalgamated. I have the CD "In Concert with The Band of The Dragoon Guards" which is a good souvenir of a Proud Regiment.

Glad I found this, nice to relive the day as sad of a occasion it was. Happy memories.

My dad fought in Korea 1950-52 with the Skins. Gone now but never forgotten. A proud man that i was and am proud of

@user-kn8ip8hk9k

11 ай бұрын

Thank for saving my country Korea will remember sacrifice of Commonwelth soldiers

@allenomalley4014

13 күн бұрын

Mine too they would have known each other

Glad to have found this. I was there that day, though a different cap badge: the pride of the Skins was palpable. A fine regiment as this film shows.

My Granddad was a fusilier and a POW in ww2. I can’t imagine what he went through. 😓 He escaped and fled to England where he met my Nana. He passed away in ‘81 when I was a year old. 😪 I would give anything to sit with him for a few hours. ♥️

I hate to see all of our great historical regiments disappear. Hopefully regimental museums still hold steady.

As an aged member of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video; not forgetting of course that the 4th /7th were an amalgamate already, so nothing new to them. I know now that the amalgamation has been a successful one and long may it continue. QUIS SEPARABIT

My first posting as a Recy Mech, the very best memories of my life. Loved every minute, FTW see you in Blackpool once again

@jezdye3615

2 жыл бұрын

Stu, was i there with you mate? I was the only Trog in the Regiment and in the RecyMech section and drove EME around in a Scout Ferret car. Ian Dolphin was a full screw and you were a lance jack like me?

I served in the skins in Osnabruck. Loved my time there in the great regiment. My sqn commander was then Maj Montgomery. Sad to see the regiment has gone. Vestigia nulla retrorsum

@marshman5319

2 жыл бұрын

The skins were in Canada when we were at batus kings reg we got on great we had many great laughs 😂with the skins sad to call it amalgamation more like decimation ...👍happened to us to

An absolutely fantastic regiment!!!; Had a squadron attached to our Battle group in Germany. Cracking bunch of lads!!

@thedgchannel4249

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeremy, what was your regt?

@lewissmith3896

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service.

My grandfather Edward 'Ted' Smith served in the 5th, good to see all the men he called brothers once upon a time.

I served as a REME A Mech with the skins; 12 years with the Army; the skins were head and shoulders above every other unit I served with. Many, many happy memories. Thanks skins.

@thedgchannel4249

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I think we all appreciated and got on with the LAD!

Thanks for the post I remember that day vividly boiling hot and the drill on the square on the run up to the final parade by the RSM of the Royal Irish Rangers...sad day but very proud

@stuhamilton8250

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Kelleher I got jailed by that Irish RSM along with many. Fond memories

@stuhamilton8250

3 жыл бұрын

Me too fantastic memories

@chriskelleher5277

3 жыл бұрын

@@stuhamilton8250 ha ha I remember a few getting taken off that square, the heat, and the piss up afterwards with Frank Carson

I was on parade that day. It brings back memories. The poor picture quality makes it hard to see familiar faces, though I think I saw myself and others I knew at the start. I don't think anyone felt good about the new regiment being formed but we just got on with it, there was no drama.

@thedgchannel4249

Жыл бұрын

I'd have been happier if they just disbanded the Skins, the identity of the regiment was lost anyway. All very sad.

As a United States Marine I totally understand the sadness of this My battalion 3BN 10th Marines was disbanded.But during the 80s we were in the tip of the spear.Its was saddening when we were disbanded

I had the privilege of being known to the late Colonel Sir Mike Ansell DSO and once had an opportunity of joining this great regiment. Not doing so was the biggest mistake of my life. His book 'Soldier On' is highly recommended. After being blinded in WW2 he continued to set one shining example after another with his brilliant 'Horse of the Year' show and many other achievements. An amazing and remarkable soldier who never faltered and suffered far more than most both in action and later life.

@raymondwilliamblack

2 жыл бұрын

I was NIKI ANSELL's gunner the only team to do the Battle Run in 74 and have 100% 1 first round hits also the highest amount of HESH in the air and on target H .3

@number8485

2 жыл бұрын

@@raymondwilliamblack Well done you must be Hotshot of the year...Congratulations.I only met General Ansell once or twice and if his father hadn’t been so cruelly blinded there can be little doubt he would have become head of the British army.

Trained at Catterick and attached to the 'Skins' before joining as musician with the 3rd.Carabiniers in 1956. Happy memories of BM Harry Vince, BSM McCoig and Trumpet Major 'Sam' Holmes (who later became our BM in the 'Carbs'. Not forgetting Wally Walton who replaced me in the Carb's,band on my demob in '68

@petrofilmeurope

6 жыл бұрын

Very nice to hear James, and thank you from Oslo :)

@pencils1951

5 жыл бұрын

Good grief, you make me feel like a youngster. I joined the Army a year before your demob. Armoured was the way to go, beats puddle-jumping.

Just found this on utube. Nice to see some old faces, General Brooking best sqn commander I had. I joined the Regiment in 1970 in Hereford as a gunner/op on Saladin , then move to Munster as a Chieftian gunner, then as a Swingfire Missile controller. happy days.

@thedgchannel4249

Жыл бұрын

Rocket Troop! Thanks for commenting, we probably met. This is Don Grant and I must edit this channel to show that.

@TheSmurf52

Жыл бұрын

@@thedgchannel4249 no doubt our paths crossed. Syd Weir was my driver on 438

My first posting, a fine regiment with wonderful people. So much fun I had, thank you all. FTW

@thedgchannel4249

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, happy many happy memories for me too.

just seen this God bless lads

Yes sad day. Same thing happened to my Regiment The Royal Dragoons. I rebadged to 3RTR in Tidworth, god that was an awful place lol.

Respect from a proud Scots ex soldier. Brothers in arms

What history!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Loved that. My dad was a REME gunfitter on Centurions , Mark III I think. Anyway, he was in Port Said when the skins came back from Korea. He had a lot of stories about the Skins... he told me that everyone had to go to church on Christmas Eve....pissed or not, as long as they went through the doors, that was enough. I build a lot of plastic kits....could anyone confirm the mark of Centurion that my dad might have worked on? I think it was th e Mark iii. thanks!

@thedgchannel4249

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comments Trevor, all part of our Regimental History!

As a young lad of 16 went to Catterick in 1976 to audition for the band didn't get it and eventually got in to The Royal Regiment Of Fusiliers.

@swordwaycom

4 жыл бұрын

I was in the band in 76. If you stayed overnight we probably took you for a drink.

Served with them as attachment in London Derry 1989

Does anyone know the names of the waltz and the tune after it?

My ex was in the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards back in the 80's and early 90's and when they were station in Paderborn Germany.

1st time I have ever seen this

Always a bit sad to watch final parades. I have happy memories of the 5th Skins being onboard HMS Anzio in the Persian Gulf in 1964/65. Anyone watching from those days?

@thedgchannel4249

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment, I'm afraid 1964 was before my service.

@frederickchase

Жыл бұрын

@@thedgchannel4249 Any other older members?

1939/1940 etc, as a boy I remember some of them stationed in Penzance,Cornwall!

@EdwardPeter1

2 жыл бұрын

ADendum Just recalled, circ 1940 they occupied vacant houses requed by War Dept & an unexploded bomb in the front garden awaiting disposal on theway to school, kidswere jumping on it until a Sgt came out & sent them packing , A short while later the fuse activated & killed the poor Sgt. They alsomanned an Ack Ack gun on the sea wall of the Jubilee bathing pool on the"prom"

Ex-Royal Engineers, Hameln, until 1991. Both 28 and 35 have left and are no more. I can understand the feelings of the Royal Inniskilling when their time is called. I hope the 'amalgamation' worked out.

@thedgchannel4249

2 жыл бұрын

Our army is now but a shadow, nevertheless best of luck to our successors.

@jc-xb8ve

Жыл бұрын

28 and 35 both still exist

They see the regimental system as an obstacle to their plans.

Never realized Wilky made Captain. He was my 1st Tp Sgt

@thedgchannel4249

7 жыл бұрын

Adrian Wilkinson? If so it would be his gunnery school time.

@peterking2651

5 жыл бұрын

The DG Channel yes

I served with the skins as a metal smith in the REME from 86 until 88 great mob. 20:55

Amalgamation is a near fatal blow to regiments soul and spirit. And of course haven’t all the defence cuts worked out well- just ask Vladimir Putin. I doubt we could field a brigade without back filling and cannibalism. An appalling state of affairs.

We had a 5th. skin in my intake, unfortunately, personal hygiene was a problem. I was tasked with cleaning him up. As room-leader I organised bathing, not one he would want to repeat. Something I'm not proud of, but the intake Sargeant gave me no option. Nobody wants to serve with someone who's dirty and smelly, particularly in a tank environment. Nonetheless, it is always sad when historic regiments amalgamate, it is an end to a rich history. I was greatly saddened when my regiment amalgamated with the 14th. 20th. Hussars, fortunately, the crimson trousers survived, and Prince Albert's legacy continued. We took over from the 4th. 7th. Dragoon Guards and the state of the equipment left much to be desired, but they were days when BMT's and other vehicles were evolving. Like any other soldier worth his salt, I am proud to have served in a Cavalry Regiment.

It would be interesting to know the names of some of the tunes being played.

@thedgchannel4249

Жыл бұрын

If anyone from the band is reading this I'm sure they can assist.

Why some soldiers wear red cap instead of skin's primrose cap?

I suggest an Enniskillen '87 red wine.

@thedgchannel4249

Жыл бұрын

Canadian?

Brave regiment. As were the Connaught Regiments. When, as seems inevitable with the next border poll, the Republic of Ireland takes the place of what is now, will the colours stay where they should be ? As the man said ‘you have move with the times’. .the last song listen now ..

A sad day indeed! Up the Regiment!

I have a pattern 1882 Cavalry Trooper Sword marked 5th Dragoons.

@thedgchannel4249

Жыл бұрын

Now I envy you that! I hope it is on display.

any one know about the drum majors mace being carried during the last march past? a French capture?? notice also an exchange officer from the Australian army......................marty

@thedgchannel4249

8 жыл бұрын

+louislungbubble It is the Salamanca Staff, liberated from a French infantry regiment.

@stephenthe3rd163

7 жыл бұрын

The DG Channel still have it

@thedgchannel4249

4 жыл бұрын

Captured at Salamanca from the French 66th Infantry Regt.

Damn Tankies!

@markferguson396

Жыл бұрын

Tankers are yanks.

@Katmando376

Жыл бұрын

@@markferguson396 Apologies Damn Tankies! The Tankies - Royal Tank Regiment specifically, rather than cavalry units equipped with tanks - this differentiates from "tankers" as the US army term for all tank soldiers

Instead of cutting regiments why not just have the same number but reduce their size? The alternative is awful with whole divisions being decimated. Truly a definition of short sightedness.

Amalgamation in my mind is the greasy injustice done to the British army a wound that is self inflicted.

Were they not part of the Union brigade?

@thedgchannel4249

Жыл бұрын

Indeed we were.

4527 BCE , was actual, then talked to me, MZAZ machine, actual.

Mark Anstice. Wasn’t a good day. Was it mate

Excruciating in 480p.

@szymongorczynski7621

3 жыл бұрын

It was 1992

Is this scottish?

@thedgchannel4249

Жыл бұрын

Irish.

@beartoven6116

Жыл бұрын

I’m a quarter I must say their uniforms are great.

Inniskillen????

@thedgchannel4249

Жыл бұрын

There are various spelling variations. "Inniskilling" was probably the spelling used when the regiment was raised.

The Germans were relieved... 😊🤓😎

Wait. What? The Inniskilling Dragoon’s are no more?😞🤦‍♂️

@thedgchannel4249

Жыл бұрын

Very sadly.

MZAZ machine, moderate country .....🇮🇱 fmr ISRAEL pro

Well Britain has to pay for all the Immigrants and NHS...money has to come from somewhere.

when I was young id loved to be in the army because my brothers were soldiers I was a piper but was injured during the troubles but now got saved in lord jesus Christ my advice is get saved and right with GOD Because hes coming soon and youll be in the lords army haliulaaaaaaa up the micks william

Destruction of English culture.

@Nimrodbodeinejr

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed