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Alan Cameron of Erracht, founder of the regiment Memorial in Inverness to the Cameron Highlanders who fell during the Anglo-Egyptian War. The regiment was raised as the 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameronian Volunteers) on 17 August 1793 at Fort William by Sir Alan Cameron of Erracht, [2] [3] a cousin of Cameron of Lochiel. [4]
Subsequently, in 1933 The Ottawa Highlanders changed their name to The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa. On 24 October 1923, his Majesty King George V was "graciously pleased" to grant permission for the regiment to be named the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada in recognition of the Regiment's exemplary service during the First World War.
The Cameron Highlanders supported its then-colonel-in-chief and the king of Canada, George VI, and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, during their royal tour of the country in 1939, including during the unveiling of the National War Memorial, and received, in recognition, the King's and regimental colours on Parliament Hill in October of that year.
The 43rd Battalion (Cameron Highlanders of Canada), CEF, was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War. History.
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada served with distinction in World War I, providing 5 battalions in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (the 16th, 27th, 43rd, 174th and 179th). The Regiment also participated in the 1942 Dieppe Raid and throughout northwest Europe in World War II.
16 RWAR currently forms part of the 13th Brigade, [11] and maintains the battle honours of all the previous 16th Battalions, including the 16th Battalion, AIF, which served in the First World War, and the 16th Battalion (Cameron Highlanders of Western Australia) and 2/16th Battalion, both of which served in the Second World War.
42nd Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), CEF: 7 November 1914 15 September 1920 The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: 43rd Battalion (Cameron Highlanders of Canada), CEF: 7 November 1914 30 August 1920 The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada: 44th Battalion (Manitoba), CEF, later 44th Battalion (New Brunswick), CEF: 7 ...
The Liverpool Scottish became affiliated to the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in the 1920s and formally transferred to the regiment in 1937 with its identity preserved. Reflecting the Territorial Army's decline in size since the late 1940s, the battalion was reduced to a company in 1967, then to a platoon of "A" (King's) Company, King's and ...