Progress on my new impression - 1st Battalion Dorset Regiment, 1917-18I chose this particular impres

Progress on my new impression - 1st Battalion Dorset Regiment, 1917-18


I chose this particular impression because my Rev War impression is for the 54th Regiment of Foot. The Dorset Regiment was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reform when the 39th and 54th Regiments amalgamated together. The 39th became the 1st Battalion Dorsets while the 54th became the 2nd Battalion - so if I really wanted to be thematically consistent, I would be doing 2nd Battalion Dorsets, but the problem with that is that the 2nd Battalion served only on the Middle Eastern front during WW1. As there are no Middle Eastern front reenactments in North America - chose the next best thing,