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Alan Cameron of Erracht, founder of the regiment Memorial in Inverness to the Cameron Highlanders who fell during the Anglo-Egyptian War. The regiment was raised as the 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameronian Volunteers) on 17 August 1793 at Fort William by Sir Alan Cameron of Erracht, [2] [3] a cousin of Cameron of Lochiel. [4]
New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center - Civil War - 79th Infantry Regiment History, photographs, table of battles and casualties, newspaper clippings, and national color for the 79th New York Infantry Regiment. Cameron Highlanders of the Northwest website. 79th New York Volunteer Infantry on Electric Scotland
Details of The 79th Cameron Highlanders of Canada were placed on active service on 6 August 1914 for local protection duties. [2] The 79th Cameron Highlanders of Canada contributed one company to the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish), CEF (perpetuated by the Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's). [3]
Cameron was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1796. Devastated by fever, the 79th was eventually withdrawn from the West Indies and rebuilt in Guernsey 1798. Cameron again served under York in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799. The 79th was in garrison in Houat in 1800, then joined Sir Ralph Abercromby's expedition to Egypt and Minorca ...
Sir Alan Cameron of Erracht raised the 79th or Cameron Highlanders in 1793. [1] He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant and led the regiment through the severe campaigns in Flanders from 1794 to 1795. [1] In 1797 the regiment was broken up and two hundred and ten men joined the Black Watch regiment. [1]
The 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish), CEF was a unit of the First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force.It was organized at Valcartier on 2 September 1914 in response to the Great War and was composed of recruits from the 91st Regiment Canadian Highlanders, the 79th Cameron Highlanders of Canada, the 72nd Regiment "Seaforth Highlanders of Canada", and the 50th Regiment "Highlanders".
Includes commissioned officers of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders regiment of the British Army and its predecessor, the 79th Foot. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
At the outset of the Civil War, James Cameron decided to serve as a matter of duty and he proceeded to Washington, D.C. [1] The 79th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, known as the "Highlanders" because its initial core militia companies were composed mostly of Scotsmen or men of Scottish descent, was one of the earlier units to arrive in Washington, D.C., after President Lincoln called for ...