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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 (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.
It appears to have been adopted by John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl, in reponse to the Highland Society of London's solicitations of clan chiefs for clan tartans, as it appears in the HSL collection of 1816–22 and also appears in the Wilsons of Bannockburn Key Pattern Book of 1819, but is not attested earlier. The sett is the same as that of ...
The earliest image of Scottish soldiers wearing tartan (belted plaids and trews); 1631 German engraving by Georg Köler.[a]Regimental tartans are tartan patterns used in military uniforms, possibly originally by some militias of Scottish clans, certainly later by some of the Independent Highland Companies (IHCs) raised by the British government, then by the Highland regiments and many Lowland ...
The battalion then embarked for North America for service in the War of 1812. [21] It saw action on the Canadian frontier in 1814 which later earned the battle honour 'Niagara'. [ 22 ] The battalion left for home in June 1815 but, shortly after arriving in England, it embarked for Ostend from where it marched to Paris. [ 23 ]
Despite modern literary claims to the contrary light infantry (including Rifle regiments) also converted to the 1812 pattern infantry shako from April 1813 as a letter by Colonel Sir Andrew Barnard of the 95th Rifles states:- " I have had caps enough in store to help the appearance of the 1st Batt. as it used to be but the 2nd and 3rd sport ...
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