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The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Museum is the regimental museum of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, their antecedent regiments, and successor battalions. Located in Stirling Castle , the museum building was built in the 1490s, and known as the "King's House" or "King's Old Building", thought to have been the private ...
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was amalgamated with the Royal Scots, King's Own Scottish Borderers, Royal Highland Fusiliers, Black Watch, and the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons), to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland in 2006, under Delivering Security in a Changing World. The 1st battalion became the 5th Battalion, Royal ...
His son, Chief Sir Adam Gordon, was killed leading the clan at the Battle of Homildon Hill, also known as the Battle of Humbleton Hill on 14 September 1402. The chief left his only child, a daughter named Elizabeth Gordon who married Alexander Seton, who was the son of Sir William Seton, chief of Clan Seton .
The 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a Line Infantry Regiment of the British Army, raised in 1799. Under the Childers Reforms, it amalgamated with the 91st (Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot to form the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders wear Government No.1a which is very similar to the Black Watch tartan was, and is in current use, by several military units throughout the Commonwealth. The kilt worn by the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders are traditionally box pleated while those of The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), who wear ...
Jean married secondly at Huntly Castle, on 13 December 1573, Alexander Gordon, 12th Earl of Sutherland, thus becoming the Countess of Sutherland. Alexander had been married at age fifteen to Barbara Sinclair, daughter of his guardian, George Sinclair , 4th Earl of Caithness , after his parents were poisoned at Helmsdale Castle .
Captain Ian Campbell, 12th and 5th Duke of Argyll FRSA, (1937-2001) Brigadier Lorne MacLaine Campbell VC, DSO & Bar, OBE, TD, (1902-1991) Niall Diarmid Campbell, 10th and 3rd Duke of Argyll, (1872–1949) Brigadier General Alfred Edward John Cavendish CMG (1859-1943) Brigadier Henry James Douglas Clark, (1888-1978)
The Battle of Crater or Operation Stirling Castle was an encounter in 1967 during the Aden Emergency. After the mutiny of the Arab Armed Police and ambush of British troops by them, the Crater district in Aden was abandoned by British troops. The British then decided to enter Crater and retrieve the bodies of dead British soldiers. [1]