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The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was a rifle regiment of the British Army, the only regiment of rifles amongst the Scottish regiments of infantry. It was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 26th Cameronian Regiment and the 90th Perthshire Light Infantry .
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.
When the Volunteers were subsumed into the new Territorial Force (TF) under the Haldane Reforms of 1908, [15] [16] the battalion became the 5th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). [ 4 ] [ 6 ] [ 9 ] [ 8 ] [ 17 ] K Company (the University Company) became a contingent of the Senior Division of the Officers' Training Corps (OTC) and the High ...
He passed out of Sandhurst in 1886, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) on 25 August. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He remained with his regiment for thirteen years, with a promotion to captain in October 1896, [ 4 ] until he was appointed as the adjutant to a volunteer battalion in India in February 1899. [ 2 ]
In July 1943 he was appointed second in command of the 12th Battalion and on their disbandment was posted to the 1st Battalion in Italy and fought at the battles of Anzio [10] and Monte Cassino. [11] On 14 August 1944 he was promoted to Command the 1st Battalion where he fought in Nuremberg, Germany [ 12 ] in 1945.
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.
The Scottish Rifles Brigade was originally a Volunteer Infantry Brigade formed in 1902 when the former Glasgow Brigade of the Volunteer Force was split up. The four Volunteer Battalions of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) constituted one brigade, while the four Volunteer Battalions of the Highland Light Infantry formed the other (the Highland Light Infantry Brigade, later the 157th (Highland ...
His son was killed in action in 1940 during the Second World War, serving with the 2nd Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in the Battle of France. [8] [1] Following his retirement they eventually settled in the village of Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire where they continued to live for the rest of their lives. Daphne died in 1968, and Money ...