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The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (3 SCOTS) is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. 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. It was known as The ...
The Black Watch's expansion during the Second World War was modest compared to 1914–1918. National Defence Companies were combined to create a new " Home Defence " battalion. In addition to this, 22 battalions of the Home Guard across Perthshire, Fife, Angus, Dundee and Kinross-shire were affiliated to the regiment, wearing its cap badge, and ...
The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland Fort George is a large 18th-century fortress near Ardersier , to the north-east of Inverness in the Highland council area of Scotland .
1st Battalion, The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)] – (1959–2006) 1st Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderers – (1689–2006) 1st Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) – (1881–2006) 1st Battalion, The Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) – (1961–1994)
Pipes and Drums of the Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland; Pipes and Drums of the Highlanders, 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland; Pipes and Drums of the 52nd Lowland, 6th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (Reserves) Pipes and Drums of the 51st Highland, 7th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (Reserves)
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.
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada is a reserve infantry regiment in 34 Canadian Brigade Group, 2nd Canadian Division, of the Canadian Army.The regiment is located at 2067, rue Bleury (2067, Bleury Street) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and is currently commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel R.M. Unger.
In March 1939 the TA expanded and the 12th (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion, the Durham Light Infantry was authorised to be raised as the Tyneside Scottish. In February 1940 the battalion secured affiliation with a Scottish unit and became the 1st Battalion Tyneside Scottish, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).