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Authors
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T.F.
Mills |
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Page
created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated
04.08.2006
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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: |
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188u |
Princess Louise's
(Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) |
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1921.01.01 |
The Argyll
and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) |
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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 |
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The
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Army site) |
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The
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's), by Harry
Aitken |
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The
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, by Diana M. Henderson (Scots
at War) |
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History
and Lineage (Scottish Military Historical Society) |
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Sutherland
Regiments, by Malcolm Sutherland |
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The
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Edinburgh Tattoo) |
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History
of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, by Harry Aitken |
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The
History of The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, by Tom Barker. |
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Amalgamation,
1881 (Regimental Museum) |
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History
of the Regiment, 1881-1918 (Regimental Museum) |
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History
of the Regiment, 1919-1939 (Regimental Museum) |
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History
of the Regiment, 1939-1945 (Regimental Museum) |
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History
of the Regiment, 1945-present (Regimental Museum) |
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The
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, by Dave Depickere (World
War II Analyzed) |
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Stirling
Castle, Regimental Depot, by Harry Aitken |
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RHQ and
Depot: |
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RHQ: The Castle, Stirling |
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91st Regimental
District at Stirling [1881-1905] |
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N Group
at Edinburgh [1946-1948] |
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Highland
Brigade at Bridge of Don [1948-1968] |
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Scottish
Division at Edinburgh [1968-2006] |
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Regulars: |
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1st
Battalion [1881-2006] |
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2nd
Battalion [1881-1948] |
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Militia
and Special Reserve: |
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Lineage
(Scottish Military Historical Society)
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3rd Battalion (Highland Borderers
Light Infantry Militia) [1881-1953] |
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4th Battalion (The Prince of Wales's
Royal Renfrew Militia) [1881-1953] |
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Territorials and Volunteers:
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1st
(Renfrewshire) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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2nd
(Renfrewshire) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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3rd
(Renfrewshire) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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4th
(Stirlingshire) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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5th
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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[6th VB] 1st
Dumbartonshire Volunteer Rifle Corps [1881-1908] |
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7th
(Clackmannan and Kinross) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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5th
(Renfrewshire) Battalion [1908-1921] |
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5th/6th
(Renfrewshire) Battalion [1921-1939] |
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6th
(Renfrewshire) Battalion [1908-1921] |
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6th
(Renfrewshire) Battalion [1939-1941] |
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7th
Battalion [1908-1967] |
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7th/8th
(V) Battalion [1995-1999] |
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8th
(The Argyllshire) Battalion [1908-1967] |
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9th
(Dumbartonshire) Battalion [1908-1938] |
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51st
Highland Volunteers [1967-1994] |
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51st
Highland Regiment [1999-2006] |
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Hostilities-Only
Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates):
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2/5th (Renfrewshire) Battalion [1914-1915]
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5th (Renfrewshire) (Reserve) Battalion
[1915-1919] |
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5th
(Renfrewshire) Battalion [1939-1941] |
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2/6th (Renfrewshire) Battalion [1914-1918]
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6th (Renfrewshire) (Reserve) Battalion
[1915-1916] |
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2/7th Battalion [1914-1917] |
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7th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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2/8th Battalion [1914-1918] |
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8th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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2/9th (The Dumbartonshire) Battalion
[1914-1917] |
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9th (The Dumbartonshire) (Reserve) Battalion
[1915-1916] |
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10th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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10th Battalion [1939-1940] |
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11th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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11th (Argyll and Dumbarton) Battalion [1939-1947]
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12th (Service) Battalion [1914-1920]
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12th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1940]
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13th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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13th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1940]
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14th (Service) Battalion [1915-1919]
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14th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
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15th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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15th Battalion [1940-1942] |
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16th Battalion [1917-1919] |
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17th (Service) Battalion [1918-1918]
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30th Battalion [1941-1943] |
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50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
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70th (Young Soldier) Battalion [1940-1942]
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No. 1 (Shetlands) Independent Company
[1943-1943?] |
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29th Independent Brigade Group MG Company
[1941-1941] |
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Cadets: |
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Dollar Academy, CCF |
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[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 War: Somme
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.
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Badges: |
The Princess Louise's
Cypher and Coronet |
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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 |
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1881.07.01 |
[1st Bn:]Gen.
James Robertson Craufurd [also 27th
Foot] |
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1881.07.01 |
[2nd Bn:]Gen. Hon. Sir Robert Rollo, KCB [also Black
Watch] |
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1888.06.09 |
Gen. George Erskine [also
Duke of Wellington's Rgt] |
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1895.06.30 |
Gen. Sir John Alexander Ewart, KCB [also
Wiltshire Rgt, Gordon
Hldrs] |
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1904.06.19 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Frederick William Traill Burroughs,
KCB [also Warwickshire
Rgt] |
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1905.04.10 |
Lt-Gen. John Sprot |
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1907.03.20 |
Maj-Gen. John Edward Boyes, CB |
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1915.01.12 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Alexander Wilson, KCB |
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1937.07.08 |
Maj-Gen. Gervase Thorpe, CB, CMG, DSO |
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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] |
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1958.10.01 |
Maj-Gen. Frederick Clarence Campbell Graham,
CB, DSO, DL [also Col. Cmdt. Scottish
Div] |
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1972.11.01 |
Lt-Gen. Alexander Crawford Simpson Boswell,
KCB, CBE [also Hon. Col. Tayforth Universities OTC] |
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1982.11.01 |
Gen. Sir Charles Patrick Ralph Palmer,
KBE |
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1992.11.01 |
Maj-Gen. David Phillips Thomson, CB, CBE,
MC |
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2000.08.01 |
Maj-Gen. Andrew John Noble Graham, CBE [also Dep. Col. Cmdt. AGC] |
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Victoria
Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference). |
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VCs
in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Museum, by
Iain Stewart. |
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VC
Awards, by Harry Aitken |
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Honours and Awards (Regimental Museum) |
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Robert
Lindsay Mackay's First World War Diary |
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Sid
Martindale (Sid's War), 1st Battalion, by Martin Spirit. |
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Tom
Barker, 1st Battalion, 1938-1945, by Tom Barker (Warlinks) |
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A
Quiet Man Goes to War: J.S.C Dunn, 1st Battalion, 1945-1953, by
J.S.C Dunn. |
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William
Edwards (Billy's War), by Philip Edwards. |
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A
Rude Awakening: Pat Quinn Remembers Hill 282 [Korea] |
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Motto: |
Sans peur; Ne
obliviscaris |
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Nicknames: |
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Anniversaries: |
Balaklava
(25 Oct.) |
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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) |
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Marches: |
quick:
Highland laddie |
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quick: The
Campbells are coming |
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The Charge:
Monymusk |
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funerals:
Lochaber no more |
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Musicians: |
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Mascot: |
Shetland pony: "Cruachan",
first presented by Princess Louise in 1929. |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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