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The  Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
 (Princess Louise's)
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by A. Melville-Brown
United Kingdom 
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1881.07.01 Princess Louise's (Sutherland and Argyll Highlanders)
organised as the county regiment of Argyllshire, Buteshire, Dumbartonshire, Kinross-shire, Renfrewshire and Stirlingshire, encompassing its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] and uniting two regular battalions:
 
188u Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
1921.01.01 The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
2006.03.28 united with The Royal Scots, The Royal Highland Fusiliers, The King's Own Scottish Borderers, The Black Watch, and The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons), to form The Royal Regiment of Scotland
  crown The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Army site)
  pip The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's), by Harry Aitken
pip The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, by Diana M. Henderson (Scots at War)
pip History and Lineage (Scottish Military Historical Society)
  pip Sutherland Regiments, by Malcolm Sutherland
  pip
pip The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Edinburgh Tattoo)
pip History of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, by Harry Aitken
pip The History of The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, by Tom Barker.
pip Amalgamation, 1881 (Regimental Museum)
pip History of the Regiment, 1881-1918 (Regimental Museum)
pip History of the Regiment, 1919-1939 (Regimental Museum)
pip History of the Regiment, 1939-1945 (Regimental Museum)
pip History of the Regiment, 1945-present (Regimental Museum)
 
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War).
 
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, by Dave Depickere (World War II Analyzed)
Stirling Castle, Regimental Depot, by Harry Aitken
   
  RHQ and Depot:
    RHQ: The Castle, Stirling
    91st Regimental District at Stirling [1881-1905]
   
    N Group at Edinburgh [1946-1948]
    Highland Brigade at Bridge of Don [1948-1968]
    Scottish Division at Edinburgh [1968-2006]
     
  Regulars:
    1st Battalion [1881-2006]
   
2nd Battalion [1881-1948]
Militia and Special Reserve:
 
Lineage (Scottish Military Historical Society)
    3rd Battalion (Highland Borderers Light Infantry Militia) [1881-1953]
    4th Battalion (The Prince of Wales's Royal Renfrew Militia) [1881-1953]
     
  Territorials and Volunteers:
    1st (Renfrewshire) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
    2nd (Renfrewshire) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
    3rd (Renfrewshire) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
    4th (Stirlingshire) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
    5th Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
    [6th VB] 1st Dumbartonshire Volunteer Rifle Corps [1881-1908]
    7th (Clackmannan and Kinross) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
    5th (Renfrewshire) Battalion [1908-1921]
    5th/6th (Renfrewshire) Battalion [1921-1939]
    6th (Renfrewshire) Battalion [1908-1921]
    6th (Renfrewshire) Battalion [1939-1941]
    7th Battalion [1908-1967]
    7th/8th (V) Battalion [1995-1999]
    8th (The Argyllshire) Battalion [1908-1967]
    9th (Dumbartonshire) Battalion [1908-1938]
 
3rd (T) Battalion [1967-1971]
    51st Highland Volunteers [1967-1994]
    51st Highland Regiment [1999-2006]
     
Hostilities-Only Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates):
    2/5th (Renfrewshire) Battalion [1914-1915]
    5th (Renfrewshire) (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1919]
    5th (Renfrewshire) Battalion [1939-1941]
    2/6th (Renfrewshire) Battalion [1914-1918]
    6th (Renfrewshire) (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
    2/7th Battalion [1914-1917]
    7th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
    2/8th Battalion [1914-1918]
    8th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
    2/9th (The Dumbartonshire) Battalion [1914-1917]
    9th (The Dumbartonshire) (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
    10th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
    10th Battalion [1939-1940]
    11th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
   

11th (Argyll and Dumbarton) Battalion [1939-1947]

    12th (Service) Battalion [1914-1920]
    12th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1940]
    13th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
    13th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1940]
    14th (Service) Battalion [1915-1919]
    14th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
    15th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
    15th Battalion [1940-1942]
    16th Battalion [1917-1919]
    17th (Service) Battalion [1918-1918]
    30th Battalion [1941-1943]
    50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
    70th (Young Soldier) Battalion [1940-1942]
    No. 1 (Shetlands) Independent Company [1943-1943?]
    29th Independent Brigade Group MG Company [1941-1941]
     
  Cadets:
  crown Dollar Academy, CCF
     
     
[combined battle honours of 91st Regiment and 93rd Regiment, plus:]  

South Africa, 1846-71, 1851-2-31, South Africa, 18791, Modder River, Paardeberg, South Africa, 1899-1902

The Great War [27 battalions]:  Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, 18, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914 '18, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1915 '17 '18, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcapelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Béthune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Italy 1917-18, Struma, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915-18, Gallipoli 1915-16, Rumani, Egypt 1916, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jaffa, Palestine 1917-18 

The Second World WarSomme 1940, Odon, Tourmauville Bridge, Caen, Esquay, Mont Pincon, Quarry Hill, Estry, Falaise, Dives Crossing, Aart, Lower Maas, Meijel, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Rhine, Uelzen, Artlenberg, North-West Europe 1940, '44-45, Abyssinia 1941, Sidi Barrani, El Alamein, Medenine, Akarit, Djebel Azzag 1942, Kef Ouiba Pass, Mine de Sedjenane, Medjez Plain, Longstop Hill 1943, North Africa 1940-43, Landing in Sicily, Gerbini, Adrano, Centuripe, Sicily 1943, Termoli, Sangro, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Aquino, Monte Casalino, Monte Spaduro, Monte Grande, Senio, Santerno Crossing, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943-45, Crete, Heraklion, Middle East 1941, North Malaya, Grik Road, Central Malaya, Ipoh, Slim River, Singapore Island, Malaya 1941-42

Pakchon, Korea 1950-51

1.  awarded 1882 for services of 91st Regiment.

 

 
flag Presentation of New Colours, 1996, by Alan Young
   
Badges: The Princess Louise's Cypher and Coronet
Uniform: 1881-1899: scarlet; facings: yellow
1953-2006: piper green doublet; facings: yellow
headdress: blue glengarry, diced band
tartan: Government (kilts, including pipers', bagpipe covers & cords), Sutherland (bagpipe ribbons); sporran: black hair with 6 short white tassels
tie: purple and green with thin gold stripes
   
   
     
   
1914.06.22 HRH The Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, CI, GCVO, GBE, RRC
1947.04.27 HM Queen Elizabeth II

1881.07.01 [1st Bn:]Gen. James Robertson Craufurd  [also 27th Foot]
1881.07.01 [2nd Bn:]Gen. Hon. Sir Robert Rollo, KCB [also Black Watch]
1888.06.09 Gen. George Erskine  [also Duke of Wellington's Rgt]
1895.06.30 Gen. Sir John Alexander Ewart, KCB  [also Wiltshire Rgt, Gordon Hldrs]
1904.06.19 Lt-Gen. Sir Frederick William Traill Burroughs, KCB [also Warwickshire Rgt]
1905.04.10 Lt-Gen. John Sprot
1907.03.20 Maj-Gen. John Edward Boyes, CB
1915.01.12 Maj-Gen. Sir Alexander Wilson, KCB
1937.07.08 Maj-Gen. Gervase Thorpe, CB, CMG, DSO
1945.10.01 Gen. Sir Gordon Holmes Alexander MacMillan of MacMillan, KCB, KCVO, CBE, DSO, MC [GOC Palestine & Trans-Jordan 1947-48; Gov. & C-in-C Gibraltar 1952-55]
1958.10.01 Maj-Gen. Frederick Clarence Campbell Graham, CB, DSO, DL [also Col. Cmdt. Scottish Div]
1972.11.01 Lt-Gen. Alexander Crawford Simpson Boswell, KCB, CBE [also Hon. Col. Tayforth Universities OTC]
1982.11.01 Gen. Sir Charles Patrick Ralph Palmer, KBE
1992.11.01 Maj-Gen. David Phillips Thomson, CB, CBE, MC
2000.08.01 Maj-Gen. Andrew John Noble Graham, CBE [also Dep. Col. Cmdt. AGC]
vc Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).
vc VCs in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart.
vc VC Awards, by Harry Aitken
vc Honours and Awards (Regimental Museum)
pip Robert Lindsay Mackay's First World War Diary
pip Sid Martindale (Sid's War), 1st Battalion, by Martin Spirit.
pip Tom Barker, 1st Battalion, 1938-1945, by Tom Barker (Warlinks)
pip A Quiet Man Goes to War: J.S.C Dunn, 1st Battalion, 1945-1953, by J.S.C Dunn.
pip William Edwards (Billy's War), by Philip Edwards.
pip A Rude Awakening: Pat Quinn Remembers Hill 282 [Korea]
 
 
 
Motto: Sans peur; Ne obliviscaris
Nicknames: construction sign
Anniversaries: Balaklava (25 Oct.)
Freedoms: Stirling (1947), Dunoon (1953), Oban (1963), Dumbarton (1963), Inverary (1963), Lochgilphead (1965), Campbelltown (1968), Tobermory (1970), Falkirk (1972), Denny and Dunipace (1974), Alloa (1974), Gourock (1974), Kilsyth (1974), Tarbert Castle (1974), Grangemouth (1974), Argyll and Bute (1979)
 
Marches: quick: Highland laddie
  quick: The Campbells are coming
  The Charge: Monymusk
  funerals: Lochaber no more
Musicians: construction sign
Mascot: Shetland pony: "Cruachan", first presented by Princess Louise in 1929.
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
Canada flag The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's) 1905-present
Canada flag The Calgary Highlanders 1925-present
Australia flag 41st Infantry Battalion (The Byron Scottish Regiment) 1938-1960
Australia flag The Royal New South Wales Regiment 1967-present
Australia flag The Royal Queensland Regiment  
Pakistan flag 1st Battalion (Scinde), The Frontier Force Regiment
     
Bond of Friendship:  
Royal Navy Ensign HMS Argyll  

swords Regimental Association, by Harry Aitken
swords Message Board, by Alan Young.
   
   
Regimental Museum Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Stirling (Museum site)
Regimental Museum Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Stirling (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Museum, Stirling (Simonides listing).
Regimental Museum Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Stirling (SMHS listing)
Regimental Museum Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Stirling (About Scotland)
   
   
Regimental Journal:
book The thin red line.
Full Histories:
book construction sign
 
Short Histories:
book construction sign
 

Militia:

book Middleton, A. H. Records of the Stirlingshire, Dumbarton, Clackmannan, and Kinross Militia, Highland Borderers Light Infantry, now 3rd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's). Stirling : Eneas Mackay, 1904.
 

Territorials/Volunteers:

book construction sign
 

First World War:

book construction sign
 

Second World War:

book construction sign
   
Other Wars:
book McCormick, Audrey; and Moffatt, Jonathan. Moon over Malaya
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