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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.
English: The tartan of the 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot also known as the Ross-shire Buffs, raised 1793. It was also used by the 72nd (formerly 78th), the original Seaforth Highland Regiment, raised 1778, later Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders; and by 71st (Highland) Regiment (formerly 73rd), a.k.a. MacLeod's Highlanders, raised 1777–8 (not to be confused with 71st Fraser's).
This pattern of dicing was worn by the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders on Kilmarnock bonnets and balmorals from their inception in 1803 to their amalgamation with the Argyllshire Highlanders in 1881, and on glengarries by the Imperial Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from 1881 to 2006.
It has also been used as a uniform tartan by the reconstituted Atholl Highlanders honour guard from 1839 onward. There is no evidence of use of this pattern by the original Atholl Highlanders army regiment (1777–83), and a portrait of John, 4th Duke of Atholl, in Highland dress with his family in 1780 does not show this pattern.
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This image is not exactly full-sett, and cannot tile horizontally and vertically; this centred and very slightly zoomed-out version was created for tabular comparison to other regimental tartans. Scottish Register of Tartans notes on this pattern: "This sett has been recorded in a number of different places including the Cockburn Collection ...
The regiment was deployed to South Africa in 1843 and saw action in the Seventh Xhosa War in 1846 [42] and the Eighth Xhosa War in 1851 [43] before returning home in 1859. [44] In 1866, the regiment became the 45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot. [1] It took part in the British Expedition to Abyssinia in 1867. [45]