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Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 November 1999. Corrected and updated 23.06.2006
 
7th Battalion,
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
1859-1967
 
United Kingdom 
  Titles & Lineage
  History & War Service
  Battle Honours
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  Badges and Uniforms
  Colonels
 Traditions
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Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency. See the main regimental page(s) as linked below for more information.
How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
  Titles and Lineage Scottish County Index
Alphabetic Index of Titles
 
  1860.06.09 1st Administrative Battalion, Stirlingshire Rifle Volunteers
formed with HQ at Stirling to administer existing corps:
   
  • 1st Stirlingshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Stirling, raised 14 Oct. 1859
  • 2nd Stirlingshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Stirling, raised 3 Feb. 1860
  • 3rd Stirlingshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Falkirk, raised 27 Mar. 1860
  • 4th Stirlingshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Lennoxtown, raised 6 Mar. 1860
  • 5th Stirlingshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Balfron, raised 1 May 1860; disbanded 1877
  • 6th Stirlingshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Denny, raised 11 Apr. 1860
  • 7th Stirlingshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Lennox Mill, raised 1 May 1860
  • 8th Stirlingshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Strathblane, raised 25 May 1860; disbanded Apr. 1864
  • 9th Stirlingshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Bannockburn, raised 21 May 1860
  • 10th Stirlingshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Stirling, raised 10 Nov. 1860 (not regimented); disbanded Feb. 1864
  • 11th Stirlingshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Stirling, raised 6 Dec. 1860
  • 12th Stirlingshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Carron, raised 10 Feb. 1862
  • 13th Stirlingshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Kilsyth, raised 19 July 1866
  • 14th Stirlingshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Alva -- see 1st Clackmannan and Kinross RVC
  1862 Clackmannan corps regimented:
   
  • 1st Clackmannan Rifle Volunteer Corps at Alloa (two coys raised 2 June 1860)
  • 2nd Clackmannan Rifle Volunteer Corps at Tillicoultry (raised 10 Mar. 1860)
  1867.11.05 Clackmannan corps transferred to 1st Admin Battalion, Clackmannan Rifle Vols
  1880.03.16 1st Stirlingshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
consolidated with HQ at Stirling
   
  • A Company at Stirling, formerly 1st RVC
  • B Company at Stirling, formerly 2nd RVC
  • C Company at Falkirk, formerly 3rd RVC
  • D Company at Lennox Mill, formerly 4th RVC; moved 1880 to Falkirk
  • E Company at Lennoxtown, formerly 4th RVC
  • F Company at Stirling, formerly 11th RVC
  • G Company at Denny, formerly 6th RVC
  • H Company at Bannockburn, formerly 9th RVC
  • I Company at Carron, formerly 12th RVC
  • K Company at Kilsyth, formerly 13th RVC
  1881.07.01 volunteer battalion of Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
  1887.12.01 4th (Stirlingshire) Volunteer Battalion, Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
  1904 H Company and I Company moved to Stenhousemuir
  1905 F Company moved to Falkirk
  1908.04.01 7th Battalion, Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
formed in T.F. with HQ at Stirling by amalgamation with 7th (Clackmannan and Kinross) Battalion, and constituting the Territorial infantry for Stirlingshire, Clackmannan and Kinross
  • A Company at Stirling (det at Bridge of Allan)
  • B Company at Stenhousemuir (det at Denny)
  • C Company at Falkirk (det at Bonnybridge)
  • D Company at Lennoxtown (det at Kilsyth)
  • E Company at Alloa
  • F Company at Alva (dets at Dollar, Tillicoultry and Menstrie)
  • G Company at Kinross (det at Kelty)
  • H Company at Alloa (dets at Sauchie and Clackmannan)
  1915.03 1/7th Battalion, Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
renumbered on formation of 2/7th Battalion
  1920.02.07 7th Battalion, Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Stirling
   
  • A Company at ?
  • B Company at ?
  • C Company at ?
  • D Company at ?
  1921.01.01 7th Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
  1939.09.02 formed duplicate 10th Battalion
  1947.01.01 7th Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Stirling
 
  • A Company at Stirling (Stirlingshire)
  • B Company at Falkirk (Stirlingshire)
  • C Company at Alloa (Clackmannan)
  • D Company at Kinross (Kinross-shire)
  1967.04.01 disbanded and concurrently amalgamated with 8th Battalion, to form TAVR elements of The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
     
     
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Volunteers
History:
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Lineage, 1859-1908 (Scottish Military Historical Society)
   
Deployment and War Service of Units:
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Biography and Gallantry Awards:
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  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

South Africa 1900-02

The Great War: [contributed to honours of parent regiment]

The Second World War: [contributed to honours of parent regiment]

  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
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Record of Colours:
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  Uniforms and Badges
   
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  Honorary Colonels Index of Royal Colonels
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1896.08.05 Hon. Col. Walter John Francis (Erskine), Earl of Mar and Kellie (Viscount Fentoun, Lord Erskine of Direletowne), KT
1932.08.05 Hon. Brig-Gen. Sir Norman A. Orr Ewing, Bt., DSO, ADC
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Lt-Col. (Hon. Col.) The Viscount Younger of Leckie, OBE, TD, DL [to 1967]
  Traditions
 
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