"Least inspiring unit title?" Topic

I just bought the Osprey on 'British Forces in North America 1793-1815' and included in the colour plates is an illustration of a solider from the Lower Canada Sedentary Militia. Has there ever been a unit designation less likely to strike fear in the hearts of the enemy?

A member of the Sedentary Militia in undress uniform:

Pitcairn's Pixilated Poltroons.

Slattery's Mounted Foot

Lawford and Young had an infantry unit called the Gentlemen Pensioners in their book, Charge.

Grelber

How about the US "Invalid Corps", created 1863, evidently such an uninspiring name that it was changed to "Veteran Corps" in 1864.
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Ochoin, I thought the photo you posted might be of a member of the Wehrmacht's 70th Infantry Division aka "Stomach Division".
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Chris
Bloody Big BATTLES!
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Does the Sedentary Militia move 3" slower?

709th Static Infantry Division. Not only non-moving, but they are 709th in the pecking order.

And moving on from stomachs to other body parts, one could easily misread the meaning of "Small Arms School Corps".
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"709th Static Infantry Division. Not only non-moving, but they are 709th in the pecking order."

The 716th Static Infantry Division is presumably even worse!

The Russians gave their static units the stirring title of 'Fortress' which sounds a bit more martial anyway.

Does the Sedentary Militia move 3" slower?

I'm guessing they are pretty hard to activate.

For activation rolls you have to roll a "sometimes" on a d6.

"The Italians"

"The French"

A rare photo of the Lower Canada Sedentary Militia in action:

For an uninspiring NAME, go with 5307th Composite Unit, (Provisional.) But they fought well. You'd remember them as Merrill's Marauders. I don't know about the other 5,306 composite units (provisional) though.

After my great-grandfather was wounded at Iuka during the ACW he was left with a Minie ball in his leg – he couldn't march so he was transferred from the 4th Minnesota to – and this is with typical Army sensitivity – the Invalid Corps. He spent the rest of the war as a Provost at an Army hospital in Iowa. In 1864 Congress decided to change the name of the Invalid Corps – by then 40,000 strong – to the Veteran Reserve Corps

The Lower Canada sedentary militia,,,oh,,,you must mean Quebec.

To this day they invade vast swaths of Florida each winter. Give aways, that they are members are their blanched gut over hanging their speedos and they speak french.

The 709th Static Infantry Dvision you say???
Makes you wonder what it takes to inspire one to be a member of the 1st Static Infantry?

Bringing the discussion back to Canada, we did have "The Royal Highland Immigrants". Seriously, how did they get the designation 'Royal'?

In modern Canada, when we got together for large scale exercises we used to call many units from the Toronto area, 'Immigrant Battalions'. It always used to appear as if the few leadership roles were occupied by caucasions and the masses on parade had to be seen to be believed. We accused them of recruiting by putting a case of beer in the back of a five ton stake truck, parking at Jane and Finch and closing the doors once full.

All fun in cheek, but regimental rivalry is alive and well still.

Anyone else ever see the unit photos at the back of the legions and VFWs and read them. My favourite is a bath and laundry unit. Yes, the army needs them all somehow.

Did the Sedentary Militia have elite flank companies?
Would they then be converged into elite Sedentary Grenadier Battalions?

How about 167 Catering Support Regiment (Reserve), Royal Logistic Corps. Recruiting today! Just what the Sedentary Militia need.

I would have listed the Army Legal Services, but they don't appear to be organised as a Regiment.

303 Commando Petroleum Troop, RLC, sounds quite exciting though.

Did the Sedentary Militia have elite flank companies?
Would they then be converged into elite Sedentary Grenadier Battalions?

I suspect the whole regiment was heavy infantry. Definitely no light companies.

The Sedentary Militia were an non-uniformed rural militia, roughly Quebec's equivalent to the Minutemen of the AWI. As such they did good service, providing the bulk of the force that turned away a much larger American army at the Battle of Chateauguay in 1813.

There seem to be a lot of Invalid Regiments around. My lots-of-greats-great-grandfather was assigned to Captain Bowen's Company of Invalids after losing his thumb to the stroke of an axe at Fort Detroit around 1790. (Don't know if this was a fight against Indians or just out chopping wood. Fort Detroit must have been in Canada at the time.) The Invalids were reorganised into Garrison Battalions around 1804 , then Royal Veteran Battalions, a much better title.

I've found a couple more…at this rate we could form an underwhelming corps.

Les commando de recherche d'action en profondeur. Whoooaaaah, action and research in depth!

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The Women's Auxiliary Balloon Corps. The also-rans of the Women's Balloon Corps.

Dagwood 11 Feb 2016 11:57 a.m. PST

"There seem to be a lot of Invalid Regiments around. My lots-of-greats-great-grandfather was assigned to Captain Bowen's Company of Invalids after losing his thumb to the stroke of an axe at Fort Detroit around 1790. (Don't know if this was a fight against Indians or just out chopping wood. Fort Detroit must have been in Canada at the time.) ."

Or a drinking game!

A hazard of peacetime garrison duty. Yeah, I bet they all saved their penny a day beer money, spent it all at the weekend and played lots of drinking games !!