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The Queen's
Own
Cameron Highlanders |
crest and tie
by A. Melville-Brown |
United
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| 1793.08.17 | 79th (Highland-Cameron
Volunteers) Regiment of Foot raised in Scotland for Irish Establishment |
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| 1804 | 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameron Highlanders) | |
| 1873.08.01 | 79th (The
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot royal accolade granted by Queen Victoria |
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| 1881.07.01 | The Queen's
Own Cameron Highlanders reorganised as the county regiment of Inverness-shire, encompassing also its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] |
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| 1961.02.07 | amalgamated with Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's), to form Queen's Own Highlanders | |
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The
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, by George Monaghan.
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History of The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, by David A.M. Terron. | |
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Fact
File, by Diana M. Henderson (Scots at War)
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The
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (Scottish Military Historical
Society)
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History of the Regiment, by Alan Willis. | |
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79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders [1793-1886] by Electric Scotland. | |
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The
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, by Chris Baker (The British
Army in the Great War).
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The
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental
Warpath 1914-1918)
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| ? Depot Battalion
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| 57th Brigade Depot at Perth [1873-1881] | ||
| 79th Regimental District at Inverness [1881-1905] | ||
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| N Group at Edinburgh [1946-1948] | ||
| Highland Brigade at Bridge of Don [1948-1961] | ||
| Regulars: | ||
| 1st Battalion [1793-1961] | ||
| 2nd Battalion [1804-1815, 1897-1948] | ||
| Militia and Special Reserve: | ||
| 3rd Battalion (The Highland Light Infantry) [1881-1953] | ||
| Territorials and Volunteers: | ||
| 1st (Inverness Highland) Volunteer Battalion [1883-1908] | ||
| 4th Battalion [1908-1947] | ||
| 4th/5th Battalion [1947-1961] | ||
| The Liverpool Scottish [1937-1961] | ||
| Hostilities-Only Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates): | ||
| 2/4th Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 3/4th Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 5th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 5th Battalion [1939-1947] |
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| 6th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 6th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
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| 7th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 7th Battalion [1940-1942] |
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| 8th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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| 9th (Labour) Battalion [1914-1917]
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| 10th
(Lovat's Scouts) Battalion [1916-1919] |
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| 11th (Service) Battalion [1918-1919]
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| 2nd Battalion, The Liverpool Scottish
[1939-1942] |
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| 30th Battalion [1941-1943] |
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| 1st (Home Service) Garrison Battalion
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| Egmont-Op-Zee,
[Egypt]1,
Corunna2,
Busaco3,
Fuentes D'Onor, Salamanca,
Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Toulouse, Peninsula,
Waterloo, Alma,
Sevastopol, Lucknow,
Egypt 1882, Tel-El-Kebir,
Nile 1884-5, Khartoum,
Atbara, South Africa,
1900-02
The Great War (13 battalions): Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17 '18, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Hill 60, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917, Arleux, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Kemmel, Béthune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, St. Quentin Canal, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Struma, Macedonia 1915-18 The Second World War: Defence of Escaut, St. Omer-La Bassée, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Falaise, Falaise Road, La Vie Crossing, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Agordat, Keren, Abyssinia 1941, Sidi Barrani, Tobruk 1941 '42, Gubi II, Carmusa, Gazala, El Alamein, Mareth, Wadi Zigzaou, Akarit, Djebel Roumana, North Africa 1940-43, Francofonte, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Cassino 1, Poggio del Grillo, Gothic Line, Tavoleto, Coriano, Pian di Castello, Monte Reggiano, Rimini Line, San Marino, Italy 1944, Kohima, Relief of Kohima, Naga Village, Aradura, Shwebo, Mandalay, Ava, Irrawaddy, Mt. Popa, Burma 1944-45 1. the Sphinx badge superscribed "Egypt". |
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Regimental Colours, by Alan Willis. | |
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| Uniform: | 1793-1873:
scarlet; facings: dark green; 1873-1881: scarlet; facings: blue; 1881-1953: scarlet; facings: blue 1953-1961: piper green doublet; facings: blue headdress: blue hackle (granted 1940 by King George VI) tartan: Cameron of Erracht (kilt) |
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| 1902.11.12 | F.M. HM King George V | |
| 1936.12.10 | F.M. HM King George VI [also Hon. Col. 4th Bn] | |
| 1953.06.02 | F.M. HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, GBE, AC, QSO | |
| Major Commandant: | ||
| 1793.08.17 | Lt-Gen. Sir Alan Cameron, KCB | |
| Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant: | ||
| 1794.11.30 | Lt-Gen. Sir Alan Cameron, KCB | |
| Colonel: | ||
| 1805.01.01 | Lt-Gen. Sir Alan Cameron, KCB | |
| 1828.03.24 | Gen. Sir Ronald Crawford Ferguson, Bt., GCB | |
| 1841.04.29 | Lt-Gen. Hon. John Ramsay | |
| 1842.07.14 | Gen. Sir James Macdonnell, GCB, KCH | |
| 1849.02.08 | Lt-Gen. James Hay, CB | |
| 1854.03.24 | Gen. Sir Wiliam Henry Sewell, KCB | |
| 1862.03.14 | Gen. Hon. Sir Hugh Arbuthnot, KCB | |
| 1868.07.12 | Lt-Gen. John Francis Glencairn Campbell, CB | |
| 1870.08.21 | Gen. Henry Cooper | |
| 1876.03.17 | Gen. Sir Alfred Hastings Horsford, GCB | |
| 1879.01.01 | Gen. Sir John Douglas, GCB | |
| 1887.09.09 | Gen. Sir Richard Chambre Hayes Taylor, GCB | |
| 1904.12.07 | Gen. Sir Ian Standish Montieth Hamilton, GCB, GCMG, DSO, TD [also Col. Gordon Hldrs; Hon. Col. 3rd Bn Manchester Rgt, 9th Bn R Scots; QMG 1903-04, AG 1909-10; GOC MEF 1915] | |
| 1914.10.26 | Lt-Gen. Sir John Spencer Ewart, KCB | |
| 1929.05.28 | Maj-Gen. Neville John Gordon Cameron, CB, CMG | |
| 1943.10.09 | Maj-Gen. Sir James Syme Drew, KBE, CB, DSO, MC | |
| 1951.09.02 | Maj-Gen. Douglas Neil Wimberley, CB, DSO, MC [to 1961; also Hon. Col. St. Andrews Univ OTC] | |
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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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Sergeant George Sands MM [WW2], by Richard Sands. | |
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The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada | 1911-1961 | |
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16th Infantry Battalion (The Cameron Highlanders of Western Australia) | 1938-1961 | |
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37th Battalion (The Henty Regiment) | 1930-1930 | |
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37th/52nd Battalion | 1930-1937, 1942-1951 |
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37th/39th Battalion | 1937-1942 | |
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61st Battalion (The Queensland Cameron Highlanders) | 1939-1946 | |
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The Otago and Southland Regiment | 1948-1961 | |
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1st Battalion, 79th Cameron Highlanders, 1793-1918, by Allan Willis. | |
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Regimental Museum of the Queen's Own Highlanders, Fort George (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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West Highland Museum, Fort William (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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