Difference between revisions of "42nd Regiment of Foot"

From FIBIwiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
m (Add other name)
(12 intermediate revisions by 4 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
−
Also known as '''The Black Watch'''
+
Also known as '''The Black Watch'''.
 +
 
 
== Chronology ==
 
== Chronology ==
 
*'''1725''' four Independent Highland Companies raised to police Highlands, commonly called the Reicudan Dhu, or Black Watch
 
*'''1725''' four Independent Highland Companies raised to police Highlands, commonly called the Reicudan Dhu, or Black Watch
Line 13: Line 14:
 
*'''1857''' [[Indian Mutiny]]
 
*'''1857''' [[Indian Mutiny]]
 
*'''1882''' [[Egyptian Campaign]]
 
*'''1882''' [[Egyptian Campaign]]
−
*'''1897''' Subathu
+
*'''1897''' [[Subathu]]
−
*'''1899''' Sitapur
+
*'''1899''' [[Sitapur]]
 
*'''1919''' [[Baluchistan]]
 
*'''1919''' [[Baluchistan]]
−
*'''1921''' [[Allahabad]]
+
*'''1921''' [[Allahabad]]  
−
*'''1923''' [[Quetta]]
+
*'''1923''' [[Quetta]]  
−
*'''1925''' [[Lahore]]
+
*'''1925''' [[Lahore]]  
−
*'''1928''' Chakratta
+
*'''1928''' Chakratta  
−
*'''1931''' [[Meerut]]
+
*'''1931''' [[Meerut]]  
−
*'''1935''' Barrackpore
+
*'''1935''' [[Barrackpore]]
−
 
+
 
 +
==Regimental Journal==
 +
''The Red Hackle :the Chronicle of the Black Watch, the Royal Highland Regiment, and of the Black Watch Association''. First published in April 1921 but not during the war years, 1939 - 45, the [[British Library ]]  has issues from Volume 1, no. 3 (Oct. 1921)
 +
 
 
== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==
−
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_(Royal_Highland)_Regiment_of_Foot 42nd Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Watch_(Royal_Highlanders) Black Watch] Wikipedia<br>
+
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_(Royal_Highland)_Regiment_of_Foot 42nd Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia
 +
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Watch_(Royal_Highlanders) Black Watch] Wikipedia
 +
*[http://www.theblackwatch.co.uk/index/index  Black Watch] Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) website
 +
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=pm1A_jGr5G8C&pg=PA100&dq=%2242nd+Royal+Highlanders,+Sergeants%22&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%2242nd%20Royal%20Highlanders%2C%20Sergeants%22&f=false List of Inscriptions on Christian Tombs and Tablets of Historical Interest in the United Provinces] Limited preview google books. Pages 100-103 details memorials to the 42nd Royal Highlanders who fell in the Mutiny campaigns 1857-1860. Also gives some background about the regiment
 +
*[http://www.richardmoles.com/ellison.html Private John Ellison in India 1860-1868] from RichardMoles.com
 +
*[http://www.britisharmedforces.org/i_regiments/blackwatch_index.htm The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)] from British Armed Forces & National Service. Includes deployment of both the 1st and 2nd Battalions in India.
 +
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080113060322/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/042-751.htm 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot, The Black Watch] including  [http://web.archive.org/web/20071130085549/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/042-1.htm deployments] Regiments.org, an archived website
 +
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071216183323/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/042Black.htm The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071130085549/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/042-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221233631/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/073-1.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived website
 +
*[http://www.blackwatch.50megs.com/indianhill.html The 1st Battalion Black Watch in India 1919-1936], [http://www.blackwatch.50megs.com/am.html Annual Manoeuvres 1933],  [http://www.blackwatch.50megs.com/move.html Barrackpore 1934] from the Black Watch Archive, a memorial to John Davidson, a Black Watch Soldier. Includes many photographs.
 +
*[http://www.britains-smallwars.com/India/last.html  Sunset on the Raj: The Last to Leave] The last British Army colours to leave the part of India which is now Pakistan were the 2nd Battalion , Black Watch who left Karachi on 26 February 1948. britains-smallwars.com
 +
 
 +
====Historical Books Online====
 +
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/324/mode/2up ''History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments Volume 2''] "The 42nd Royal Highland Regiment “The Black Watch” " by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org.  Indian service commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/418/mode/2up page 419] in 1857.
 +
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyof42ndroy00grovuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''History of the 42nd Royal Highlanders - "The Black Watch" now the first battalion "The Black Watch" (Royal Highlanders) 1729-1893''] by John Percy 1893  Illustrated by Harry Payne Groves.  Archive.org
 +
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/blackwatchrecord00forbuoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''The "Black Watch": The Record of an Historic Regiment''] by Archibald Forbes 1896 Archive.org
 +
 
 +
{{#widget:Google PlusOne
 +
|size=small
 +
|count=true
 +
}}
 +
 
 +
 
 +
 
 +
 
  
 
[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]
 
[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]

Revision as of 12:04, 9 January 2013

Also known as The Black Watch.

Chronology

  • 1725 four Independent Highland Companies raised to police Highlands, commonly called the Reicudan Dhu, or Black Watch
  • 1729 two additional companies raised
  • 1739 Earl of Craufurd's Regiment formed by regimentation of existing six coys and four new coys; also known until 1751 by the names of other colonels
  • 1751 became 42nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot
  • 1758 became 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot
  • 1861 became 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot, The Black Watch
  • 1881 amalgamated with the 73rd Regiment of Foot to become the 1st Battalion, Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch)
  • 2006 merged with five other Scottish regiments - the Royal Scots, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, the Royal Highland Fusiliers, The Highlanders and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders - to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland

Service in British India

Regimental Journal

The Red Hackle :the Chronicle of the Black Watch, the Royal Highland Regiment, and of the Black Watch Association. First published in April 1921 but not during the war years, 1939 - 45, the British Library has issues from Volume 1, no. 3 (Oct. 1921)

External Links

Historical Books Online

Retrieved from "https://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=42nd_Regiment_of_Foot&oldid=45601"