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Men of the 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders digging trenches at Aix, France, November 1939. The 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, initially under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Wimberley , was sent to France as part of the 5th Brigade in the 2nd Division with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in ...
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 .
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders soldiers (1 C, 40 P) Pages in category "Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (1793–1961), former infantry regiment of the British Army; The Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) (1961–1994), former infantry regiment in the Scottish Division of the British Army
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In 1873 a system of recruiting areas based on counties had been instituted under the Cardwell Reforms and the barracks were intended to become the depot for the 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot and the 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot. [2] Following the Childers Reforms, the barracks became depot of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in ...
The Camerons wear traditional Scottish kilts patterned off of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders' Cameron of Erracht. The green Canadian Forces jacket is cut in a manner that the skirts curve outwards and downwards above where a belt buckle would rest.
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 ...