Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 July 2002. Corrected and updated 26.01.2006
1st Battalion,
72nd Highlanders
1777-1881
1st Battalion,
Seaforth Highlanders
1881-1961
United Kingdom  
Note:This is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental page for full lineage and other information.
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  1778.01.08 Seaforth Highland Regiment
raised in western Highlands and the Isles (inspected 15 May 1778 at Elgin)
  1778 Colours presented by Earl of Seaforth  
  1778 Scotland: Edinburgh  
  1778.07.18 78th (Highland) Regiment of Foot
  1778.09.12 Channel Islands: Guernsey & Jersey
  1779.04 Jersey (5 coys)  
  1779.05 Guernsey & Jersey  
  1781.01 Jersey (5 coys)
  1781.06.01 at sea (embarked at Portsmouth)
  1781 Porto Praya naval battle
1782.03.31 India: Madras
  1782.04 Chingleput
  1782 Mysore war
  1783 India
  1786.04.26 72nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot
  1787 Colours presented by Maj-Gen. James Murray
  1790 Mysore war
  1791 India
  1793.08 Pondicherry
  1793.08 India
  1795 Ceylon
  1798.02.02 England
  1798? Scotland: Perth
  1800 Colours presented by Lt-Col. Hugh Fraser at Perth
  1800 Ireland: Newry
  180u Clonmel & Kilkenny  
  180u Fermoy, Mallow, Rathkeale  
  1804.12.25 1st Battalion, 72nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot
redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion
  180u Dublin, Cork  
  1805.07.31 at sea
  1806.01.06 Cape: Lospard's Bay  
  1806.01 Cape of Good Hope Highland Bde
  1806.01 Simonstown, CapeTown, Stellenbosch occupation force
  1809.04.07 1st Battalion, 72nd Regiment of Foot
regt lost Highland status
  1810.12 Mauritius
  1810.12 Mauritius occupation force
  1814 Cape of Good Hope
  1816.01.01 72nd Regiment of Foot
redesignated on disbandment of 2nd Battalion
  1815 India: Calcutta
  1815 Cape of Good Hope
  1819.07 Kaffir war
  1819.08 Cape of Good Hope  
  1821 at sea
  1821.12.22 England
  1823 Channel Islands  
  1823.12.19 72nd (or Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
  1824.09 Scotland: Edinburgh
  1825.08.01 Colours presented by Lady Hope at Edinburgh
  1825 Ireland
  1827 London: Tower public duties in London
  1828.07.01 at sea (embarked at Gravesend)
  1828 Cape of Good Hope
  1835 Kaffir war
  1835 Cape of Good Hope
  1840 at sea
  1840.04.11 England
  1842.01.26 Colours presented by F.M. Duke of Wellington at Windsor Castle
  1842 Manchester, Preston, Blackburn, Bolton aid to civil power in industrial riots
1843 Ireland: Fermoy  
  1844.11.27 at sea
  1844.12 Gibraltar
  1848.02 at sea  
  1848 West Indies: Barbados dets in St. Lucia & Grenada
  1849.12 Trinidad dets in Tobago & Demerara
  1851.05 Barbados  
  1851.07 Nova Scotia: Halifax
  1851.09 New Brunswick: Fredericton  
  1853 Nova Scotia: Halifax  
  1854. at sea
  1854.10.12 Ireland
  1854.12.14 at sea
  1855.01 Malta
  1855.05.29 Crimea Highland Bde
  1856.07.06 at sea
  1856.07.31 England: Portsmouth
  1856.08 Channel Islands  
  1857.04 Shorncliff  
  1857.08.24 Colours presented by HRH Duke of Cambridge at Shorncliff
  1857.09.04 at sea (embarked at Portsmouth)
  1858.01 India: Bombay
  1857 Sepoy rebellion
  1859 India: Mhow (det at Indore)
  1863 Umbeyla expedition
  1863 Mhow
  1865 Poona  
  1865 at sea
  1865.11.16 England
  1866.03 Scotland: Edinburgh  
  1867.05 England: Aldershot  
  1867.10 Manchester  
  1868.02 Ireland: Limerick, Cork  
  1871.02.21 at sea
  1871 India: Bombay
  1871 Umballa  
  1873 Peshawar  
  1875 Nowshera  
  1875 Cherat  
  1876 Sialkot  
  1878.11 Afghanistan
  1880.11 India: Lucknow
  1881.07.01 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders
1881 India: Bengal
1882.02.25 at sea
1882 Aden
  1882.08.02 Egypt
  1883.10.15 England: Parkhurst
  1884.08.16 Colours presented by HM Queen Victoria at Osborne
  1885 Aldershot
  1886 Scotland: Glasgow
  1889 Ireland: Fermoy
  <1894> Tipperary
  <1897> England: Aldershot
  1897 Malta
1897 Crete occupation force
  1898 Egypt
  1898 Sudan
  1899 Egypt  
  1903 India: Nasirabad
  1906 Nowshera
  1908.02 NW Frontier  
  1908.05 Nowshera  
  1910 Chaubattia
  1911.12.11 Colours presented by HM King George V at Delhi
  1912 Agra
  1914.10 France and Flanders Meerut Div
  1916.01 Mesopotamia
  1918.06 Palestine
  1919 Scotland: Fort George
  1920 Ireland: Belfast
  1924 England: Aldershot 2 Bde
1928 Dover
1933 Egypt & Palestine
  1937 China: Hong Kong
  1938 China: Shanghai
  1940.08 Hong Kong
  1940.11 Malaya
  1941.02 India
  1942.05 India 23 Ind Inf Div
  1945 Malaya
  1945.09 Dutch East Indies: Java
1946.10 Singapore
  1948.10.07 amalgamated with 2nd Battalion without change of title
  1948.06 Malaya Southern Sub-Dist
  1950.12? Malaya 63 Gurkha Bde
  1951.04 at sea
1951.06 Scotland
1952.04 Germany 31 Bde, BAOR
1954.06 Egypt
1955.06 Aden
1955.11 Gibraltar
1957.10 Germany: Münster 6 Bde, BAOR
  1958.08.14 Colours presented by FM Sir Gerald Templer at Münster
  1961.02.07 amalgamated with 1st Bn, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, to form 1st Bn, Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons)