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Known as The 75th Stirlingshire Regiment

1787 raised as 75th (Highland) Regiment of Foot by EIC for service in India
1809 lost Highland status & dress and became 75th Regiment of Foot
1862 became 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot
1881 amalgamated with the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot to become the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders
1994 amalgamated with The Queens' Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) to form The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
2004 amalgamated with the other Scottish infantry regiments into the single Royal Regiment of Scotland

The Tiger and Sphinx, or Gordon Highlanders’ Chronicle. The British Library has issues 5 (1898) and 6 (1899)
The Tiger and Sphinx. New Series. The British Library has issues from 1924 to 1994

75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot www.regiments.org
The Gordon Highlanders Wikipedia
The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) cabarfeidh.com
Royal Regiment of Scotland Wikipedia
75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site
The Gordon Highlanders including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site
Military Art: Dargai During the Battle of Dargai Heights‎, on 20 October 1897, the regiment lost three Officers and thirty men and Piper Findlater received the Victoria Cross. This action was one of the North West Frontier Campaigns
Tirah: photographic journalism A photograph album from Black and White War Album: No. 3 The Tirah Campaign published 1899 “includes photography of war fighting, camps, mountain terrain, war dead, the Gordon Highlanders in action, wounded soldiers and gun batteries” King’s College London Collections
Gordon Highlanders Museum Covers the 75th and 92nd Regiments of Foot

History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments Volume 2 " Seventy-Fifth regiment or 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders" by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org. Indian service commenced in 1788.
The Life of a Regiment: The History of the Gordon Highlanders: Volume 2 from 1816-1898 including an Account of the 75th Regiment from 1787 to 1881 by Charles Greenhill Gardyne 1903 Archive.org
Lists of the officers of His Majesty's and the Hon. Company's troops serving under the Presidency of Bombay from Adjutant General's Office January 1st 1798 Muster roll in Malabar Google Books

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 *[http://www.war-art.com/dargai.htm Military Art: Dargai]  During  the [[Battle of Dargai Heights‎]],  on 20 October 1897, the regiment lost three Officers and thirty men and Piper Findlater received the Victoria Cross. This action was one of the [[North West Frontier Campaigns]]
 *[http://www.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/index.php?id=763 Tirah: photographic journalism] A photograph album from ''Black and White War Album: No. 3 The Tirah Campaign'' published 1899 “includes photography of war fighting, camps, mountain terrain, war dead, the  Gordon Highlanders in action, wounded soldiers and gun batteries” King’s College London Collections
+*[http://www.gordonhighlanders.com/ Gordon Highlanders Museum]  Covers the 75th and [[92nd Regiment of Foot|92nd Regiment]]s of Foot
 ====Historical Books Online====
 *[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/654/mode/2up ''History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments  Volume 2''] " Seventy-Fifth regiment or 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders" by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org.  Indian service commenced in 1788.