Marc
Donor
You do realise those Regiments continued after the First World War, right?
The “virtual destruction of the regulars” meant the death of the soldiers, not the discontinuation of the Regiments.
I remember talking with a lad in the Devon and Dorsets in the late ‘90s who claimed family lineage back to Waterloo.
Ah, yes, of course. My sidebar comment has to do with a fairly new multi-generational service tradition in the States that now encompasses the vast majority of enlistees. That is the forest, individuals, some units that have old traditions are the trees. The really germane question would be - what percentage of the ranks nowadays come from military families.
Oh, and technically, one of my brother-in-law's qualifies, his grandfather was career military; a longish genealogy of various men who signed for some war or another, a couple of West Pointers, all the way back to the 3rd North Carolina who did their best at shooting up as many British as they could...