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+ | ==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) | ||
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_(Royal_Highland)_Regiment_of_Foot 42nd Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia | *[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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Watch_(Royal_Highlanders) Black Watch] Wikipedia | ||
− | *[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.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 | ||
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+ | ====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 | ||
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[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]] | [[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]] |
Revision as of 12:04, 9 January 2013
Also known as The Black Watch.
Contents
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
- 1857 Indian Mutiny
- 1882 Egyptian Campaign
- 1897 Subathu
- 1899 Sitapur
- 1919 Baluchistan
- 1921 Allahabad
- 1923 Quetta
- 1925 Lahore
- 1928 Chakratta
- 1931 Meerut
- 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
- 42nd Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
- Black Watch Wikipedia
- Black Watch Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) website
- 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
- Private John Ellison in India 1860-1868 from RichardMoles.com
- The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) from British Armed Forces & National Service. Includes deployment of both the 1st and 2nd Battalions in India.
- 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot, The Black Watch including deployments Regiments.org, an archived website
- The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived website
- The 1st Battalion Black Watch in India 1919-1936, Annual Manoeuvres 1933, Barrackpore 1934 from the Black Watch Archive, a memorial to John Davidson, a Black Watch Soldier. Includes many photographs.
- 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
- 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 page 419 in 1857.
- 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
- The "Black Watch": The Record of an Historic Regiment by Archibald Forbes 1896 Archive.org