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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.
42nd Regiment of Foot 1751–1758 [74] 42nd (The Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot 1758–1861 [74] [75] 42nd (The Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch) 1861–1881 [76] 1739. Six Independent Highland Companies raised 24 April 1725. The Earl of Craufurd's Regiment was formed 25 October 1739 by the regimentation of the independent ...
The regiment was created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881, when the 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch) was amalgamated with the 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot to form two battalions of the newly named Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). The 42nd became the 1st Battalion, and the 73rd became the 2nd Battalion. [6]
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Includes commissioned officers of the 42nd Regiment of Foot of the British Army which was active from 1661 to 1881 when it was amalgamated into the Black Watch.
42nd Regiment of Foot, a unit of the British Army up to 1881, known as the "Black Watch"; 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic), a unit of the British Army Royal Engineers 42nd Royal Tank Regiment, a World War II armoured unit of the British Army
3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division and ARVN 42nd Regiment search and destroy operation to search the area west of Route 14 north from Dak To toward Dak Pek in support of Army Engineers repairing and improving Route 14: Kon Tum Province: Apr 14 – 16: Operation Quyet Thang 184 [2] [19] ARVN 2nd Division operation: Quảng Ngãi Province: 206: ...
English: A tartan of 42nd Regiment of Foot (Black Watch), found in the 1785 records of Wilsons of Bannockburn and still in their Key Pattern Book of 1819, as "42nd Coarse Kilt with Red". It is believed to be the sett used for the regiment's small kilts while they were still also using the belted plaid (great kilt) for dress uniform.