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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.
{{Information |Description={{en|1=The tartan of the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot. With black guard lines added around the yellow over-check, it later became the main Clan Gordon pattern. It is essentially the Black Watch tartan but with a yellow over-check on green, and with the single black over-check on blue converted to double ...
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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 ...
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The regiment was originally raised in Scotland amongst highlanders keen on emigrating to Canada in 1803–4. The unit was to see service only in British North America, however, misunderstandings regarding the terms of enlistment and rumours that the regiment would be sent to India caused the recruits to mutiny in Glasgow.
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