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The 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment, raised in 1794. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot to form the Gordon Highlanders in 1881.
92nd Highlanders at Kandahar by Richard Caton Woodville (1856–1927) Monument in Aberdeen to the Gordon Highlanders who fell in the Anglo-Egyptian War. The regiment was formed on 1 July 1881 instigated under the Childers Reforms as the county regiment of: Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, and Shetland. [2]
{{Information |Description={{en|1=The tartan of the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot; designed in 1793 by weaver William Forsyth of Aberdeen. With thinner black bands and with black guard lines added around the yellow over-check, it later became the main Clan Gordon pattern. It is essentially the Black Watch tartan but with a yellow ...
{{Information |Description={{en|1=The tartan of the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot. With black guard lines added around the yellow over-check, it later became the main Clan Gordon pattern. It is essentially the Black Watch tartan but with a yellow over-check on green, and with the single black over-check on blue converted to double ...
The Gordon Highlanders (100th, later 92nd) also wore an altered Black Watch, this time with a thin yellow over-check (on green, and with no black guard lines around the yellow). [78] In a rare show of competition to Wilsons, the pattern was designed in 1793 and supplied by weaver William Forsyth of Huntly, Aberdeen. [79]
The tartan worn was the same or nearly the same as that of the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment (Black Watch with an over-check of yellow over the green). [27] This battalion was disbanded in 1799. [24] A second battalion was raised by Sir John Sinclair in 1795, and embodied by Major-General James Hamilton at Forfar, in the May of that year ...
The barracks, which were built on the site of a 12th-century castle, were completed in response to a perceived threat from France between 1764 and 1796. [1] In 1873 a system of recruiting areas based on counties was instituted under the Cardwell Reforms and the barracks became the depot for the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot and the 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot. [2]
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