73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot [UK]

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Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 04.06.2006

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	73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot
	United Kingdom

Titles & Lineage

History

Battle Honours

Colours, Standards & Guidons

Uniforms & Badges

Colonels-in-Chief

Colonels


	1780.03.21	2nd Bn, 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot
	1787.04.08	73rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot
	1809.04.07	73rd Regiment of Foot regt lost Highland status and dress
	1845	73rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot
	1862.08.04	73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot
	1881.07.01	united with 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot, The Black Watch , to form The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)


		The 73rd Regiment of Foot, 1780-1881 (Regimental site)
		Forty-Second Regiment, 2nd Battalion 1780-1886 (Electric Scotland)
		The 73rd Regiment of Foot, 1780-1881 (73rd Regiment of Foot INC, Australia)
		Under a Tropical Sun: Lachlan Macquarie and the 73rd Regiment in Sri Lanka 1796-1821, by Robin Walsh (Macquarie University Library)
		73rd Regiment in Australia, by B & M Chapman.

	*Regulars:*
		[1st Battalion] [1787-1881]
		2nd Battalion [1809-1817]

	*Depot and Reserves:*
		Reserve Battalion [1848-1852]
		? Depot Battalion [1856-1871]
		60th Brigade Depot at Hamilton [1873-1881]


	Mangalore, Seringapatam, Waterloo Note: see also successor for belatedly awarded battle honours.


		Colours of the 73rd Highlanders [reproduction] (73rd Regiment of Foot INC, Australia)
		Replica Regimental Colours (1807), Macquarie University Library

Badges:

Uniform:

1787-1881: scarlet; facings: dark green;
tartan: Government (kilt, 1787-1809); Highland dress abolished 1809


	1786.04.18	Gen. Sir George Osborn, Bt. [also 40th Foot]
	1786.08.11	Gen. Sir William Medows, KB [also 7th Dgn Gds, 89th Foot; Gov. Bombay 1787-90; C-in-C Madras 1790-95]
	1796.11.02	Gen. Gerard (Lake), 1st Viscount Lake [also 53rd Foot, 80th Foot; C-in-C India]
	1800.02.14	Gen. George (Harris), 1st Baron Harris of Seringapatam and Mysore, GCB [Gov. & C-in-C Madras 1797-99]
	1829.05.22	Gen. Sir Frederick Adam, GCB, GCMG [also 21st Foot, 57th Foot; Gov. Madras 1832-37]
	1835.12.04	Lt-Gen. William George (Harris), 2nd Baron Harris of Seringapatam and Mysore, CB, KCH [also 86th Foot]
	1845.06.10	Maj-Gen. Sir Robert Henry Dick, KCB, KCH [d. of wounds at Sobraon]
	1846.04.03	Gen. Sir John Grey, KCB [also 5th Foot; C-in-C Bombay 1850-52]
	1849.05.18	Lt-Gen. Sir Richard Goddard Hare Clarges, KCB [also 12th Foot]
	1852.07.29	Lt-Gen. Robert Barclay Macpherson, CB, KH [also 88th Foot]
	1857.02.11	Lt-Gen. Chesborough Grant Falconar, KH
	1860.01.11	Maj-Gen. Sir Michael Creagh, KH
	1860.09.15	Lt-Gen. Benjamin Orlando Jones, KH
	1865.02.17	Gen. Sir Henry Robert Ferguson-Davie, Bt.


		Commissioned Officers of the 73rd Regiment Who Served in Ceylon 1814-1821, by Robin Walsh, Macquarie University Library
		Army List 1799: 73rd Regiment of Foot


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	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:*


		73rd Regiment of Foot INC [Australia]
		The Black Watch Webring


		The Black Watch Museum, Perth (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
		The Black Watch Museum, by Henrik Teller (Simonides listing).