Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 November 2002. Corrected and updated 23.03.2005
1st Battalion,
Scotch Brigade
1794-1802
1802-18, 1823-1881
2nd Battalion,
The Connaught Rangers
1881-1922
United Kingdom  
Note:This is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental page for full lineage and other information.
Colour Key
Lineage
War service
Overseas service
Home service
 
   
  1794.10.09 1st Battalion, Scotch Brigade
transferred from Dutch service
  1794 Scotland  
  1795 absorbed personnel of 3rd Battalion and 4th Battalion
  1796 Gibraltar
  1797 Cape of Good Hope
  1797 absorbed 2nd Battalion
  1798 India
  1799 Mysore war
  1800 India
  1802.12.25 94th Regiment of Foot
  1803 Mahratta war
  1805 India
  1808.04 Scotland
  Jersey
  1810.01.19 at sea (embarked at Jersey)
  1810.01.31 Portugal: Lisbon
  1810.02.06 at sea
  1810.02 Spain: Cadiz
  1810.09.09 at sea
  1810.09 Portugal: Lisbon
  1810 Peninsular war 2 Bde, 3 Div
  1814.05 France
  1814.05 at sea (embarked at Pauillac)
  1814.06.14 Ireland: Cork
  1818.12.24 disbanded at Belfast; officers remained on half-pay; Colours laid up in Edinburgh Castle (moved later to St. Giles Cathedral)
   
  1823.12.01 94th Regiment of Foot
re-formed at Glasgow from cadre of officers on half-pay
  1823 Scotland
  1824 Gibraltar
  1824 Colours presented
  Malta
  1834 UK
  1838 Ceylon
  1839 India: Madras
  1849 Moplah rebellion
  1854 UK
  1855.09 Gibraltar
  1856.06 UK
  1857.10 at sea
  1857 India: Karachi
  Peshawar
  Aden
  1868 UK
  1879 Natal
  1879 Zulu war
  1879 Sekukuni war
  1880 South Africa aaa
  1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The Connaught Rangers
  1882.03 Ireland: Fermoy
  1885 Templemore
  1887 England: Portsmouth  
  <1889> England: Aldershot
  1889.07.13 at sea  
  1889.07 Malta
  1892 Cyprus
  1895 Egypt
  1896 Sudan Dongola Expeditionary Force
  1897 India: Meerut
  1903 Ahmednagar
  1906 Poona
  1908 Ireland: Tipperary
  1910 Curragh
  1913 England: Aldershot 5 Bde
  1914.08 France and Flanders 2 Div
  1914.12.05 amalgamated at Le Touret with 1st Battalion after heavy casualties
1919.02.08 re-formed at Huy by redesignation of 5th Battalion
  1919 Belgium
  1919 England: Dover
  1921.05 Germany: Silesia Army of Occupation
  1922 England  
  1922.07.31 disbanded