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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/n637/mode/2up ''History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments  Volume 2''] "Seaforth’s Highlanders, formerly the Seventy-Eighth, now the Seventy-Second Regiment or Duke Of Albany’s Own Highlanders" by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org.  Indian service commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/n639/mode/2up page 545] in 1782 in Madras
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/n637/mode/2up ''History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments  Volume 2''] "Seaforth’s Highlanders, formerly the Seventy-Eighth, now the Seventy-Second Regiment or Duke Of Albany’s Own Highlanders" by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org.  Indian service commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/n639/mode/2up page 545] in 1782 in Madras
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscotlan08browiala#page/28/mode/2up "Seaforth’s Highlanders, previously the Seventy-Eighth, now the Seventy–Second Regiment"], page 29 ''The History of Scotland, its Highlands, Regiments and Clans, Volume VIII'' by James Browne 1909 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscotlan08browiala#page/28/mode/2up "Seaforth’s Highlanders, previously the Seventy-Eighth, now the Seventy–Second Regiment"], page 29 ''The History of Scotland, its Highlands, Regiments and Clans, Volume VIII'' by James Browne 1909 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/fliesinrelationt00grah#page/138/mode/2up Page 139]  ''Flies in Relation to Disease: non-bloodsucking flies'' by G. S. Graham- Smith.  1913 Archive.org.  In 1903 the Seaforth Highlanders, stationed at [[Nasirabad]], suffered from a very bad epidemic of typhoid fever.


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Revision as of 07:28, 13 March 2014

Known as The Seaforth Highlanders

Chronology

  • 1778 raised by the 1st Earl of Seaforth as the 78th Highland Regiment of Foot
  • 1823 renamed the 72nd Regiment of Foot, or 78th Highlanders (Duke of Albany's Own)
  • 1881 amalgamated with 78th Highlanders as 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
  • 1961 combined with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders to form the Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons)
  • 1994 1st Battalion Queen's Own Highlanders was further amalgamated with 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders to form 1st Battalion The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
  • 2006 amalgamated with the other Scottish infantry regiments into the single large Royal Regiment of Scotland and called The Highlanders, 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (4 SCOTS)

External Links

Historical Books Online