As Regiment of Foot Guards was disbanded in 1763 (according to the quoted website)... ...It is unlikely to be Major Joseph Cameron Dunbar's Regiment in 1920. I'm still at a loss to explain the abbreviation - it isn't in any of my books :<( Kind Regards, Ken On 22 April 2016 at 12:06, Malcolm Austen via <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:50:59 +0100, Patrick R. L. Dunbar via > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Brian, I can find no trace of a unit calling itself a regiment of foot >> guards, except for the Polish one I mentioned in my original posting. I >> have never seen 'Guards' as part of the 79th's title. Incidentally they >> were resurrected and disbanded more than once after 1757. Although >> originally raised in Colchester, it later became a Scottish regiment >> with a variety of titles - 79th. Regiment of Foot (Cameronian >> Volunteers) and the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders are two of them. > > I have found this web page using RFG for Regiment of Foot Guards: > > https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?topic=257125.0 > > Not that I can vouch for it being authentic historic usage :-) > > Malcolm. > > -- > Malcolm Austen <[email protected]> > GENUKI trustee <[email protected]> > Pedigree User Group <[email protected]> > Oxfordshire FHS <[email protected]> or <[email protected]> > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message