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Page
created 1 March 2001. Corrected and updated 30.03.2005
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United
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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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Colour Key
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Lineage
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War service
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Overseas service
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Home service
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1793.03.08 |
78th
(Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
raised in Scotland (2nd
Battalion formed
simultaneously) |
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1793.07.10 |
embodied
at Fort George |
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1793 |
Guernsey |
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1794.09 |
Holland |
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1795.04 |
England |
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1795.06 |
France:
Brittany |
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1795.08 |
England |
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1795.10 |
France:
Brittany |
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1795.12 |
England |
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1796 |
Cape of
Good Hope |
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1796 |
78th
(Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
amalgamated with 2nd
Battalion
in South Africa |
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1797.02 |
India:
Calcutta |
aaa |
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1803.02 |
Bombay |
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1803 |
Mahratta
War |
aaa |
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1803.05 |
India |
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1804.05.17 |
1st
Battalion, 78th
(Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
redesignated upon re-formation of 2nd
Battalion |
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1807.02 |
Goa |
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1811 |
Madras |
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1811.08 |
Java |
aaa |
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1816 |
78th
(Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
amalgamated with 2nd
Battalion |
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1816.11 |
at sea
(4 coys wrecked on Peparis Island for one month) |
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1816.11 |
India:
Calcutta |
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1817.07 |
England |
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1817.11 |
Ireland |
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1826.04 |
at sea |
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1826 |
Ceylon |
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1838.02 |
England |
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1842.04 |
at sea |
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1842 |
Aden |
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1842 |
India:
Sciude |
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1857.01 |
Persia |
aaa |
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1857.05 |
India:
Bombay |
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1857.05? |
Bengal |
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1857 |
Sepoy
rebellion |
aaa |
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1859.05 |
at sea |
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1859.09 |
Scotland:
Fort George |
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1860 |
Edinburgh,
Hamilton |
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1861 |
England:
Aldershot |
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1862 |
Shorncliffe |
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1864 |
England:
Dover |
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1865.08.03 |
at sea |
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1865 |
Gibraltar |
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1867.07 |
at sea |
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1867 |
Canada:
Montreal |
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1869.05.14 |
Nova Scotia:
Halifax |
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1871.11.25 |
at sea |
ship:
Orontes |
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1871.12.21 |
England? |
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1871 |
Scotland:
Aberdeen |
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Ireland? |
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Scotland:
Fort George |
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1879.02.16 |
at sea |
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1879 |
India |
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1879 |
Afghanistan |
aaaaaa |
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1880 |
India |
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1881.07.01 |
2nd
Battalion, Seaforth
Highlanders) Regiment of Foot |
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1881 |
Bengal |
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1888 |
Hazara |
aaa |
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India |
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1891 |
Hazara |
aaa |
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<1892> |
Kuldana |
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<1894> |
Ferozepore |
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1895.03 |
Chitral
expedition |
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1895.08 |
Ferozepore? |
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1897 |
UK |
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1899.10 |
South
Africa |
3 Inf Bde |
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1903.01 |
Ireland:
Dublin |
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<1909> |
Scotland:
Edinburgh |
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<1912> |
England:
Shorncliffe |
10 Bde |
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1914.08 |
France
and Flanders |
4 Div |
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1919 |
India |
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<1922.01> |
Meerut
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1924 |
Peshawar
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1927 |
Lahore
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1929 |
Meerut
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1930 |
NW
Frontier |
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1932 |
Palestine
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1934 |
England:
Dover |
12 Bde |
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1937 |
Scotland:
Glasgow |
15 Bde |
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1939.09 |
France
& Belgiumaa |
5 Inf Div,
BEF |
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1940.03 |
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51 Inf
Div, BEF |
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1940.06 |
captured
by the Germans at St. Valery |
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1940.08 |
re-formed
in UK |
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1940.08 |
UK |
51 Inf
Div |
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1942.08 |
Middle
East |
aaa |
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1943.07 |
Sicily |
152 Bde,
51 Inf Div |
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1943 |
Italy
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aaa |
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1944.01 |
UK |
aaa |
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1944.06 |
NW
Europe |
aaa |
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1945 |
Germany |
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1948.10.07 |
amalgamated
with 1st
Battalion |
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