The 28th Regiment of Foot was one of the two regiments which, together formed the Gloucestershire Regiment. It was the one which fought back to back at Alexandria, earning the right to wear the famous Back Badge of the Glosters. And it was the inspiration for the famous standing in 1951 by Col. Jimmy Carne and his men at Gloucester Hill during the Battle of the Imjin against the Chinese forces opposing the UN. Tyhe 28th had included General Wolfe among its commanders, and it had been alongside him when he was fatally killed during the Siege of Quebec in 1759 (?) >From about 1819 to 1828 the regiment was in Malta and then the Ionian Islands. While in Corfu the regiment "distinguished" itself by putting down an insurrection by local peasants led by their priests. Although outnumbered seven to one, they routed the men and hung the priests. Later the men were able to get very drunk, mystifying their officers until it was discovered that an enterprising individual had bought up rope the same size as the hangman's rope, and had been selling it at a quarter dollar an inch to the locals, as relics of the rope that hanged their priests. Source: Cap of Honour - The stor of the Gloucestershire Regiment (28th/61st Foot) Alan