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The 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot was a Scottish infantry regiment in the British Army also known as the Black Watch.Originally titled Crawford's Highlanders or the Highland Regiment (mustered 1739) and numbered 43rd in the line, in 1748, on the disbanding of Oglethorpe's Regiment of Foot, they were renumbered 42nd, and in 1751 formally titled the 42nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot.
English: The tartan of the band (musicians) of the 42nd Regiment of Foot (Black Watch) used at least as early as 1780 through to c. 1865, and also used by the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders bandsmen from c. 1830s to c. 1865 (both later switched to regular Black Watch tartan for musicians). The pattern is Black Watch with the black replaced by red.
The earliest image of Scottish soldiers wearing tartan (belted plaids and trews); 1631 German engraving by Georg Köler.[a]Regimental tartans are tartan patterns used in military uniforms, possibly originally by some militias of Scottish clans, certainly later by some of the Independent Highland Companies (IHCs) raised by the British government, then by the Highland regiments and many Lowland ...
The ancestors of the Bannermans were hereditary banner-bearers to the kings of Scotland. [27] Barclay: Crest: (On a chapeau doubled ermine) a hand holding a dagger Proper. [28] Motto: Aut agere aut mori [28] [Latin, 'Either to do or die'] [28] Chief: Peter Barclay of Towie Barclay and of that Ilk Seat: Towie Barclay Castle, Aberdeenshire ...
79th (Cameronian Highlanders) Regiment of Foot 1804–1866 79th (Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot 1866–1873 79th (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot 1873–1881 [124] 1793 Raised 16 August 1793. [115] [123] 1881: Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders: Royal Regiment of Scotland: 80: 80th (Light Armed) Regiment of Foot 1758 ...
92nd Gordon Highlanders at Edinburgh Castle, 1846. The regiment embarked for Jamaica in April 1819; [39] many of the troops died from yellow fever, before the regiment returned home in 1827. [40] The regiment embarked for Gibraltar in 1834 and went on to Barbados in 1841 [41] before returning home again in 1844. [42]
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada is a reserve infantry regiment in 34 Canadian Brigade Group, 2nd Canadian Division, of the Canadian Army.The regiment is located at 2067, rue Bleury (2067, Bleury Street) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and is currently commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel R.M. Unger.
The battalion then embarked for North America for service in the War of 1812. [21] It saw action on the Canadian frontier in 1814 which later earned the battle honour 'Niagara'. [ 22 ] The battalion left for home in June 1815 but, shortly after arriving in England, it embarked for Ostend from where it marched to Paris. [ 23 ]