Perhaps a reprieve for Lt. Beard. Newspaper just got the Regiment wrong. SWB and Mon. Regt. undoubtedly recruited from same general area which encroached into FoD. A brother of my grandfather (Soudley, East Dean)was a volunteer in the Royal Monmouthshie Royal Engineers Militia for several years in the 1890's. (3,000 officers and OR's, how about that).