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The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders or 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793. It amalgamated with the Seaforth Highlanders (the Duke of Albany's) to form the Queen's Own Highlanders in 1961.
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Souvenir, ed. by Lt-Col. J.D. Sinclair, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1935; Canadian Expeditionary Force ...
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada served with distinction in World War I, providing 5 battalions in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (the 16th, 27th, 43rd, 174th and 179th). The Regiment also participated in the 1942 Dieppe Raid and throughout northwest Europe in World War II.
Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) Gordon Highlanders; Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders; Royal Irish Rifles; Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Connaught Rangers; Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Royal Munster Fusiliers; Royal Dublin ...
The availability of the number "79" was fortuitous and enabled the new Canadian regiment to adopt the regimental number of a famous regiment in Scotland, the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders who had been raised in 1793 as the 79th (Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot.
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (2 C, 5 P) Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment (2 C, 16 P) R. Royal Berkshire Regiment (2 C, 11 P) Royal Dublin Fusiliers (2 C, 3 P)
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (1793–1961), former infantry regiment of the British Army; The Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) (1961–1994), former infantry regiment in the Scottish Division of the British Army
The Calgary Highlanders: 83rd Battalion (Queen's Own Rifles of Canada), CEF: 10 July 1915 21 May 1917 The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada: 84th Battalion, CEF: 10 July 1915 11 April 1918 The Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's Own) 85th Battalion (Nova Scotia Highlanders), CEF: 10 July 1915 15 September 1920 The Cape ...