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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.
The 42nd Battalion was authorized on 7 November 1914 and embarked for Great Britain on 10 June 1915. It disembarked in France on 9 October 1915, where it fought as part of the 7th Canadian Brigade, 3rd Canadian Division in France and Flanders until the end of the war.
On 30 April 1782, the War Office notified Sir Guy Carleton, Commander in Chief of British forces in North America, that due to the death of Lieutenant General Fraser, the two battalions of the 71st were to be formed into two distinct units, the 71st Regiment under the command of Colonel Thomas Stirling of the 42nd Regiment, and the Second 71st Regiment under the command of the Earl of ...
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The Scottish Highlanders and their Regiments. Seeley, Service & Co, London. ISBN 0-85422-012-7. Cannon, Richard (1848). Historical record of the Seventy-Second Regiment, or the Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1778, and of its subsequent services to 1848 (PDF). Parker, Furnivall & Parker.
Data from Handley Page Aircraft since 1907 General characteristics Crew: 4 Capacity: 24 passengers and 14.2 cu m mail/baggage Length: 92 ft 2 in (28.09 m) Wingspan: 130 ft 0 in (39.62 m) Height: 27 ft 0 in (8.23 m) Wing area: 2,989 sq ft (277.7 m 2) [a] Airfoil: RAF 28 Empty weight: 17,740 lb (8,047 kg) Max takeoff weight: 28,000 lb (12,701 kg) Powerplant: 4 × Bristol Jupiter XIF 9-cylinder ...
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