Template:Did you know nominations/109th (Aberdeenshire) Regiment of Foot


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:18, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

109th (Aberdeenshire) Regiment of Foot

 * ... that Alexander Leith Hay (pictured) raised the 700-strong 109th (Aberdeenshire) Regiment of Foot in just five months in 1974?
 * ALT1:... that recruits to the 109th (Aberdeenshire) Regiment of Foot were offered a bounty of up to 25 guineas?
 * ALT2:... that Colonel Alexander Leith Hay (pictured) threatened to resign his commission when the 109th (Aberdeenshire) Regiment of Foot was disbanded a little more than a year after it was first raised?
 * ALT3:... that the rivalry between Alexander Leith Hay and the Gordon family extended to the British Army with Leith Hay's 109th Regiment of Foot competing for recruits with the Gordon Highlanders?
 * ALT4:... that the disbandment of the 109th (Aberdeenshire) Regiment of Foot in Southampton contravened a written guarantee given to its recruits?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Carpathian newt

5x expanded by Dumelow (talk). Self nominated at 07:27, 27 September 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Fine work, date and expansion check out, the article is comprehensive, well written and well referenced, no apparent copyright violations, hooks are referenced, image appropriately licensed, QPQ done. I have no strong preference for a hook, although ALT3 seems a bit more catchy. Constantine  ✍  18:31, 28 September 2014 (UTC)