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Seaforth Highlanders
(Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) |
crest and tie
by A. Melville-Brown |
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| 1881.07.01 | Seaforth
Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs) organised as the county regiment of Caithness-shire, Cromarty, Elginshire, Nairn, Ross-shire, Sutherland, and Orkney, encompassing its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] and uniting two regular battalions: |
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| 1881.11.22 | Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) | |
| 1921.01.01 | The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) | |
| 1951.09.01 | Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) | |
| 1961.02.07 | amalgamated
with The Queens' Own Cameron Highlanders,
to form Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) |
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The
Seaforth Highlanders, by George Monaghan.
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History
of the Seaforth Highlanders, by David A.M. Terron.
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The
Seaforth Highlanders (Scottish Military Historical Society)
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Fact
File, by Diana M. Henderson (Scots at War)
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The
Seaforth Highlanders, by Chris Baker (The British Army in
the Great War).
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The
Seaforth Highlanders, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath
1914-1918)
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| 72nd Regimental District at Fort George [1881-1905] | ||
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| N Group at Edinburgh [1946-1948] | ||
| Highland Brigade at Bridge of Don [1948-1961] | ||
| Regulars: | ||
| 1st Battalion [1881-1961] | ||
| 2nd Battalion [1881-1948] | ||
| Militia: | ||
| 3rd Battalion (Highland Rifle
Militia) [1881-1953] |
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| Territorials and Volunteers: | ||
| 1st (Ross Highland) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 1st Inverness-shire (Inverness Highland) Rifle Volunteer Corps [1881-1883] | ||
| [2nd VB] 1st (Sutherland) Volunteer Rifle Corps [1881-1908] | ||
| 3rd (Morayshire) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 4th (Ross-shire) Battalion [1908-1921] | ||
| 4th/5th (The Ross, Sutherland and Caithness) Battalion [1921-1941] | ||
| 5th (The Sutherland and Caithness Highland) Battalion [1908-1921] | ||
| 6th (Morayshire) Battalion [1908-1947] | ||
| 11th Battalion [1947-1961] | ||
| Hostilities-Only Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates): | ||
| 2/4th (Ross Highland) Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 4th (Reserve) (Ross Highland) Battalion
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| 2/5th (The Sutherland and Caithness Highland)
Battalion [1914-1915] |
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| 5th (Reserve) (The Sutherland and Caithness
Highland) Battalion [1915-1916] |
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| 5th (Caithness and Sutherland) Battalion [1941-1947] | ||
| 2/6th (Morayshire) Battalion [1914-1917]
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| 6th (Reserve) (Morayshire) Battalion
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| 7th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 7th (Morayshire) Battalion [1939-1947]
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| 8th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 8th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
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| 9th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 9th Battalion [1940-1945] |
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| 10th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1915]
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| 30th Battalion [1941-1945?] |
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| 50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
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| No. 1 Independent Company [1943-1945?]
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| [combined battle
honours of 72nd Regiment and 78th
Regiment, plus:]
Carnatic1, Mysore2, South Africa 18353, Egypt 1882, Tel-El-Kebir, Chitral, Khartoum, Atbara, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1902 The Great War [19 battalions]: Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18 Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Armentières 1914, Festubert 1914 '15, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres 1915 '17 '18, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcapelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Béthune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Courtrai, Selle, Valenciennes, France and Flanders 1914-18, Macedonia 1917-18, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1918, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1915-18 The Second World War: Ypres-Comines Canal, Somme 1940, Withdrawal to Seine, St. Valery-en-Caux, Odon, Cheux, Caen, Troarn, Mont Pincon, Quarry Hill, Falaise, Falaise Road, Dives Crossing, La Vie Crossing, Lisieux, Nederrijn, Best, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Meijel, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Moyland, Rhine, Uelzen, Artlenberg, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, El Alamein, Advance to Tripoli, Mareth, Wadi Zigzaou, Akarit, Djebel Roumana, North Africa 1942-43, Landing in Sicily, Augusta, Francoforte, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Garigliano Crossing, Anzio, Italy 1943-44, Madagascar, Middle East 1942, Imphal, Shenam Pass, Litan, Tengnoupal, Burma 1942-44 3rd Battalion (Highland
(Rifles) Militia): Mediterranean
1900-01 1. awarded
1889 for service of 72nd Regiment
in 1780-1784. |
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| Badges: | A stag's head caboshed, between the attires the Cypher and Coronet of th late Duke of Albany with the motto 'CUIDICH'N RIGH' | |||||||
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| Uniform: | 1881-1899:
scarlet; facings: yellow 1899-1953: scarlet; facings: buff 1953-1961: piper green doublet; facings: buff headdress: tartan: Mackenzie Seaforth (kilts) |
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| 1883? | Col. HRH Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, KG, KT, GCSI, GCMG, KJStJ | |
| 1905.07.19 | HRH Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany, KG, GCVO [terminated 1917] | |
| 1920.12.07 | F.M. HM King Edward VIII | |
| 1881 | [1st Bn]: Gen. Sir Edward Selby Smyth, KCMG [also 2nd Foot] | |
| 1881 | [2nd Bn]: F.M. Sir Patrick Grant, GCB, GCMG [also RHG, 104th Foot; C-in-C Madras 1856-61, Ag C-in-C India 1857; Gov. & C-in-C Malta; Gov. R Hospital 1874-95] | |
| 1893.08.29 | Gen. Sir William Parke, KCB [also Worcestershire Regt] | |
| 1897.03.30 | Gen. Sir Archibald Alison, Bt., GCB [also Essex Regt; AG 1888] | |
| 1907.02.06 | Lt-Gen. Mostyn de la Poer Beresford | |
| 1911.08.20 | Gen. Sir George Digby Barker, GCB [also N Staffs Regt; Gov. Bermuda 1896-1902] | |
| 1914.04.16 | Maj-Gen. Robert Hunter Murray, CB, CMG | |
| 1924.07.31 | Maj-Gen. Sir Colin John Mackenzie, KCB | |
| 1931.11.26 | Maj-Gen. Sir Archibald Buchanan Ritchie, KBE, CB, CMG | |
| 1939.05.14 | Lt-Gen. Sir William Montgomerie Thomson, KCMG, CB, MC | |
| 1947.07.01 | Maj-Gen. Sir John Emilius Laurie, Bt., CBE, DSO | |
| 1957.03.15 | F.M. Sir Archibald James Halkett Cassels, GCB, KBE, DSO [continued 1961 in QO Hldrs; also Col. Cmdt. RMP, Gurkha MP, APTC; CGS 1965-68, AG 1963-64; Gov. R Hospital 1969] | |
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Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference). | |
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VCs in the Highlanders Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart. | |
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VCs in the Dingwall Museum, by Iain Stewart. | |
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Caithness Roll of Honour 1914-18, by David Bews. | |
| Motto: | Cuidich 'n Righ | ||
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| Marches: | quick: Blue Bonnets over the Border | ||
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| pipes & drums: Pibroch of Donuil Dubh | |||
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Seaforth Highlanders of Canada | 1912-1961 | |
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The Pictou Highlanders | 1920?-1954 | |
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27th Infantry Battalion (The South Australian Scottish Regiment) | 1952-1960 | |
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The Wellington Regiment (City of Wellington's Own) | 1950-1961 | |
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Regimental Museum of the Queen's Own Highlanders, Fort George (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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Regimental Museum of the Queen's Own Highlanders, Fort George (Simonides listing) | |
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Regimental Museum of the Queen's Own Highlanders, Fort George (Scottish Military Historical Society listing) | |
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