The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) [UK]

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	1881.07.01	The Cameronians (Scotch Rifles) organised as a county regiment of Lanarkshire (shared with The Highland Light Infantry), encompassing some of its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] and uniting two regular battalions:
		1st Battalion, redesignation of 26th (The Cameronian) Regiment of Foot 2nd Battalion, redesignation of 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) (Light Infantry)
	1881.07.01	The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
	1950	earlier conversion of Glasgow T.A. battalion (5th/8th Bn in 1938) to artillery and amalgamation of 6th Bn and 7th Bn left T.A. presence concentrated in south Lanarkshire (and Highland Light Infantry as the remaining presence in Glasgow)
	1968.05.14	1st Battalion disbanded (last Regular unit), and recruiting area taken over by King's Own Scottish Borderers
	1988	RHQ closed, and T.A. recruiting area soon taken over by King's Own Scottish Borderers (some cadet units remained badged as Cameronians)


		The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (Regimental Trustees, The Cameronians)
		The Story of the Regiments (Regimental Trustees, The Cameronians)
		Cameronian Scottish Rifles, by Robert Gordon.
		History and Lineage, by Scottish Military Historical Society.
		The Cameronians , by Diana M. Henderson (Scots at War)
		Cameronian Scottish Rifles1689-1968 (Douglas Community Council)
		The Cameronians (The Lowland Scots Regiments, 1918)
		The Cameronians, by Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
		The Cameronians, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War).
		The Cameronians, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
		Cameronian Scottish Rifles, 1900-1945, photos compiled by Robert Gordon.
		Proud regiment stands steadfast to the end, by Iain Lundy (The Scotsman, 4 July 2006)

	*RHQ and Depot:*
		RHQ: Muir Street, Hamilton, Lanarkshire
		26th Regimental District at Hamilton [1881-1905]
		Hamilton Barracks (until 1941) and Winston Barracks, Lanark
		B Group at Edinburgh [1946-1948]
		Lowland Brigade at Melton Bridge [1948-1968]

	*Regulars:*
		1st Battalion [1881-1968]
		1st Bn The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1962-66, Photos, compiled by Eddie Boyle
		2nd Battalion [1881-1948]

	*Militia and Special Reserve:*
		3rd Battalion (2nd Royal Lanarkshire Militia) [1881-1953]
		Lineage (Scottish Military Historical Society)
		4th Battalion [1881-1953]

	*Territorials and Volunteers:*
		[1st VB] 1st Lanarkshire Volunteer Rifle Corps [1881-1908]
		2nd Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
		[3rd VB] 3rd Lanarkshire Volunteer Rifle Corps [1881-1908]
		4th Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
		5th Volunteer Battalion [1881-1897]
		5th Battalion [1908-1921]
		5th/8th Battalion [1921-1940]
		6th (Lanarkshire) Battalion [1908-1950]
		6th/7th Battalion [1950-1967, 1969-1971]
		7th Battalion [1908-1950]
		8th Battalion [1908-1921]
		The Royal Scots and Cameronians Territorials [1967-1969]
		52nd Lowland Volunteers [1967-1999]

	*Hostilities-Only Units* (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates):
		2/5th Battalion [1914-1918]
		5th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1918]
		2/6th Battalion [1914-1918]
		6th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
		2/7th Battalion [1914-1915]
		7th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
		2/8th Battalion [1914-1915]
		8th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
		8th Battalion [1938-1940]
		9th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
		9th Battalion [1939-1946]
		History of 9th Battalion, 1942-1945, by Cameronians Reenactment Group.
		10th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
		10th (Lanarkshire) Battalion [1939-1947]
		11th (Service) Battalion [1914-1920]
		11th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
		12th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1915]
		12th Battalion [1940-1943]
		13th (Service) Battalion [1915-1916]
		13th (Home Defence) Battalion [1940-1941]
		14th (Labour) Battalion [1916-1917]
		15th Battalion [1917-1919]
		16th (Service) (Transport Workers) Battalion [1917-1919]
		17th (Service) (Transport Workers) Battalion [1917-1919]
		18th (Service) Battalion [1918-1919]
		20th (Service) (Transport Workers) Battalion [1918-1919]
		30th Battalion [1941-1943]
		50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
		1st Garrison Battalion [1916-1920]


	[combined battle honours of 26th Regiment and 90th Regiment, plus:] Blenheim¹, Ramillies¹, Oudenarde¹, Malplaquet¹, South Africa 1846-7², South Africa 1877-8-9², Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902 The Great War [27 battalions]³: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914, Armentières 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Ypres 1917 '18, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, St Quentin, Rosières, Avre, Lys, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenberg Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, St Quentin Canal, Cambrai 1918, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915-18, Gallipoli 1915-16, Rumani, Egypt 1916-17, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jaffa, Palestine 1917-18 Second World War: Ypres-Comines Canal, Odon, Cheux, Caen, Mont Pincon, Estry, Nederrijn, Best, Scheldt, South Beveland, Walcheren Causeway, Asten, Roer, Rhineland, Reichswald, Moyland, Rhine, Dreirwalde, Bremen, Artlenberg, North-West Europe 1940, '44-45, Landing in Sicily, Simeto Bridgehead, Sicily 1943, Garigliano Crossing, Anzio, Advance to Tiber, Italy 1943-44, Pegu 1942, Paungde, Yenagyaung 1942, Chindits 1944, Burma 1942 '44 1. awarded 1882 for services of 26th Regiment. 2. awarded 1882 for services of 90th Regiment. 3. AO 55/1925 as amended by AO 51/1929. Note: see also volunteer battalions


		As a rifle regiment, The Cameronians did not carry Colours.

Badges:

Uniform:

1881-1953: rifle green; facings: dark green
1953-1968: rifle green; facings: dark green
headdress:
tartan: Douglas (trews)

Uniforms and Distinctions, Second World War era, by Cameronians Reenactment Group.


cap badge & backing


	1956	HM Gustaf VI, King of Sweden, KG, GCB, GCVO


	Colonel:
	1881	[1st Bn:] Gen. George Henry Mackinnon, CB
	1881	[2nd Bn:] Gen. William Hassall Eden
	1882.12.11	[2nd Bn:] Gen. John Alfred Street
	1899.09.17	Lt-Gen. Sir James Clerk Rattray, KCB
	1910.07.31	Maj-Gen. Joseph Henry Laye, CVO, CB
	1918.06.14	Maj-Gen. Sir Philip Rynd Robertson, KCB, CMG
	1927.11.22	Maj-Gen. Sir Eric Stanley Girdwood, KBE, CB, CMG
	1946.01.01	Gen. Sir Thomas Sheridan Riddell-Webster, GCB, DSO [also QMG 1942-46]
	1951.02.12	Gen. Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, GCB, DSO, MC [also AG 1946-47]
	1954.08.22	Maj-Gen. Douglas Alexander Henry Graham, CB, CBE, DSO, MC
	1958.03.26	Gen. Sir Horatius Murray, GCB, KBE, DSO
	1964.03.31	Lt-Gen. Sir Richard George Collingwood, KBE, CB, DSO
	1969.01.01	Maj-Gen. Henry Templer Alexander, CB, CBE, DSO
	Representative Colonel:
	1970.07.01	Maj-Gen. Henry Templer Alexander, CB, CBE, DSO
	1974.11.11	Brig. David Balfour Riddell-Webster, OBE [to 1987 (deceased 8 Mar. 1987)]


		Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).
		VCs in the Cameronians Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart.
		Robert Turnbull (d. 1944), by Giles Turnbull.


	Motto:	Nemo me impune lacessit
	Nicknames:
	Anniversaries:
	Freedoms:
	Marches:	quick: Within a Mile of Edinboro Town
		slow: In the Garb of Old Gaul
	Musicians:
	Band History, by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd) Bandmasters, by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd)
	*Mascot:*
	*Miscellaneous Tradition Links:*


	The Perth Regiment	-1965
	26th Battalion (The Logan and Albert Regiment)	1928-1951
	The Otago Regiment	-1948
	The Otago and Southland Regiment	1948-1968
	The Witwatersrand Rifles	1937-1961
	2nd Battalion, Ghana Regiment of Infantry

*Affiliated Gurkha Regiment:*
	7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles	1951?-1968


		Ex-Cameronians and Family Members, by Robert Gordon.
		Cameronian Scottish Rifles Forum, by Robert Gordon (Bravenet)
		1st Bn, The Cameronians, Burma Star Association.
		9th Bn, The Cameronians [North Carolina; WW2]
		9th Bn, The Cameronians Communication Centre (Yahoo!Groups)


		The Cameronians Regimental Museum, Hamilton (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
		The Cameronians Regimental Museum, by Henrik Teller (Simonides listing)
		The Cameronians Regimental Museum, Hamilton (Scottish Military Historical Society listing)
		The Cameronians Monument, Glasgow (Glasgow Guide)
		The Cameronians War Monument, Glasgow, by Tim Gardner (Glasgow - City of Sculpture)


	Regimental Journal:
		*The Covenanter : the regimental journal of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).* [Hamilton : Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)], 19uu-9999. Bimonthly

	Full Histories:
		Ross, Andrew. *The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) - The 90th Perthshire Light Infantry. Glasgow : James Maclehose & Sons, 1919. [reprinted from The Lowland Regiments*]
		Johnston, Samuel Henry Fergus. *The History of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 26th and 90th. Vol. 1, 1689-1910*. Aldershot [Eng.] : Gale & Polden, 1957.
		Story, Henry Harle. *History of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Vol. 2, 1910-1933*. Lanark : Hazell Watson & Viney, 1961.
		Barclay, C. N. (Cyril Nelson). *The history of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Vol. 3, 1933-1946*. London : Sifton Praed, 1948.
		Baynes, John. *The history of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Vol. 4, The close of empire, 1948-1968*. London : Cassell, 1971.
		Courtenay, A.H. *With the 4th Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in South Africa 1900-1901*. Edinburgh : D. Brown, 1905.
		Maxwell, Herbert, Sir. *The Lowland Scots regiments : their origin, character and services previous to the great war of 1914*. Glasgow : J. Maclehose and Sons, 1918. [Contents: Introduction, by the editor.--The 2nd Dragoons, Royal Scots Greys, by Sir J. B. Paul.--The Scots Guards, by Captain C.B. Balfour.--The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) by Major M.M. Haldane.--The Royal Scots Fusiliers, by Lieut.-Col. R. Toogood.--The King's Own Scottish Borderers, by Brigadier-General M.G. Wilkinson. Note on the origin of the K.O.S.B., by A. Ross.--The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). The 90th Perthshire Light Infantry, by A. Ross.--Scottish regiments disbanded, by A. Ross.--Regimental music (p. [331]-339)]
		Paul, William Pratt. *The Lowland regiments: lions rampant*. Aberdeen : Impulse Publications Ltd, 1972. ISBN: 090131126X

	Short Histories:
		Ferrier, Douglas. *The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) : the story of the regiment*. Hamilton : Hamilton Advertiser Ltd., 1918.
		Wylly, H. C. (Harold Carmichael). *A short history of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). [s.l.* : s.n.], ( Gale and Polden), 1924.
		Wylly, H. C. (Harold Carmichael). *A short history of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)*. 2d ed. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1939.
		Whyte, Wolmer, ed. *The Cameronians : the story of the Scottish Rifles*. London, Melbourne : Hutchinson & Co., Ltd. 1941. ( Roll of the drum; histories of the regiments of the British Army)
		*1st Battalion the Cameronians, Scottish Rifles (14 May 1689 to 14 May 1968).* [Edinburgh,1968.
		*The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) : 300 years of service, 1689-1989*. Musselburgh : Printed by Ivanhoe Printing, 1989.
		*Dress Regulations of the The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)*. [Hamilton] : Hamilton Advertiser, 1931.

	Territorials/Volunteers:

	First World War:
		White, John. *With the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in France*. Glasgow : J. Smith and Son, 1917.
		Baynes, John Christopher Malcolm. *Morale: a study of men and courage; the Second Scottish Rifles at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 1915*. New York : Praeger, 1967.
		Baynes, John Christopher Malcolm. *Morale : a study of men and courage : the Second Scottish Rifles at the battle of Neuve Chapelle 1915*. [new ed.] London : Leo Cooper, 1987. ISBN: 0850520495
		*The Tenth Battalion, the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) : a record & a memorial, 1914-1918*. Edinburgh : Edinburgh Press, 1923.

	Second World War:
		*The Cameronians in Sicily : an account of a Battalion [2nd] of The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in the Sicilian campaign of 1943*. Hamilton : Hamilton Advertiser, 1944.