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The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 26th Cameronian Regiment and the 90th Perthshire Light Infantry. [2] After the amalgamation, the 1st Battalion preferred to be known as "The Cameronians" while the 2nd preferred to be known as "The Scottish Rifles".
When the 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot, and 90th Perthshire Light Infantry amalgamated to form The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, seven pre-existent militia and volunteer battalions of Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway were integrated into the structure of the regiment.
On the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, the 1st Cameronians were one of four independent battalions earmarked for service with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) as line of communications troops. [8] They landed in France on 11 August, and on 22 August all four were grouped into the 19th Infantry Brigade for frontline service. [9]
The 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers was a Scottish Volunteer unit of the British Army.Originally raised in Glasgow as part of the Highland Light Infantry from 1859, it later became a battalion of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
No. 7504 Private Henry May, 1st Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). For most conspicuous bravery near La Boutillerie, on 22nd October, 1914, in voluntarily endeavouring to rescue, under very heavy fire, a wounded man, who was killed before he could save him, and subsequently, on the same day, in carrying a wounded Officer a distance ...
The two were formally amalgamated in 1882, to form the Scotch Rifles Cameronians. This somewhat ungainly name was quickly altered to the Cameronians (Scotch Rifles), and then to the more modern form of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). The Cameronians, as the more senior regiment, formed the 1st Battalion; the 90th, as the junior, formed the 2nd.
English: 1st Battalion Cameronians (scottish Rifles) on the Western Front, 1914 - 1915 2nd Lieutenant L J Barley of the 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), watching as a rifle grenade is prepared for firing from trenches at Grande Flamengrie Farm on the Bois Grenier sector of the line during February 1915.
1881: 1st Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (disbanded 1968) [55] 27: 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot 1751–1881 [56] 1689 Raised 26 June 1689 as Zacharaiah Tiffin's Regiment of Foot. [56] 1881: 1st Battalion, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers: Royal Irish Regiment: 28: 28th Regiment of Foot 1751–1782