In a message dated 08/06/00 11:36:53 AM Central Daylight Time, jane@providence2000.freeserve.co.uk writes: << Dear Dave, ARe we to understand the Gordon HIghlanders and the Inverness militia one and the same? Thanks, Jane >> No No No, I was reading up on the Inverness Militia and found that. Sorry it is once of those cases where you read page one about boats, then go to reference 101 which ends up 5 books away all about space travel. Sorry I should have been clearer. Dave M.