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*'''2006''' known as the Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2 SCOTS)
*'''2006''' known as the Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2 SCOTS)


== External Links ==
==Regimental Journal==
A regular regimental journal can be a valuable source of information. ''The Highland Light Infantry Chronicle'' was published quarterly, from Volume 1, no. 1 January 1893 to Volume 54, no. 3, December  1958. Some editions are available online, see below.  The [[British Library]] has this publication in its catalogue. Another source may be the  [[National Army Museum]], or the Regimental Museum.
 
== External links ==
*[http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=74th_Regiment_of_Foot:_Officers_dying_in_India_1790-1804 74th Regiment of Foot: Officers dying in India 1790-1804] Your Archives
*[http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=74th_Regiment_of_Foot:_Officers_dying_in_India_1790-1804 74th Regiment of Foot: Officers dying in India 1790-1804] Your Archives
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/74th_(Highland)_Regiment_of_Foot 74th Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/74th_(Highland)_Regiment_of_Foot 74th Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071214220449/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/074-787.htm 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20071220001213/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/074-1.htm deployments] Regiments.org, an archived site
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071214220449/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/074-787.htm 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20071220001213/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/074-1.htm deployments] Regiments.org, an archived site
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071219095458/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/071HLI.htm The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071213220200/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/071-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071220001213/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/074-1.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071219095458/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/071HLI.htm The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071213220200/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/071-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071220001213/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/074-1.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site
*[http://rhf.org.uk/rhf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=26 The Royal Highland Fusiliers] rhf.org.uk including [http://rhf.org.uk/rhf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=37 Museum]  and [http://rhf.org.uk/rhf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=73 Library]. Covers the [[21st Regiment of Foot|21st]],  [[71st Regiment of Foot|71st]] and 74th Regiments
*[http://www.rhf.org.uk/ The Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum], Glasgow, Scotland  which includes a Library.  rhf.org.uk  Covers the [[21st Regiment of Foot|21st]],  [[71st Regiment of Foot|71st]] and 74th Regiments.
*[http://www.wellingboroughrec.org.uk/blackh/blackarm.htm Black Soldiers in Northamptonshire Regiments of the British Army] wellingboroughrec.org.uk. William Damerun, a [[Anglo Indian| Eurasian]] enlisted at age 7 and served in the 74th Foot 24/09/1800-27/09/1805 (under age), the [[94th Regiment of Foot|94th Foot]], period not noted, but under age, the [[69th Regiment of Foot|69th Foot]], 25/09/1807-19/07/1824, the [[48th Regiment of Foot|48th Foot]],  20/07/1824-31/07/1834, and the [[55th Regiment of Foot|55th Foot]], 01/07/1834-30/11/1837 when he was discharged on medical grounds. He was a musician by trade. His brother James joined the 69th Foot 01/08/1808 as a drummer, aged 7 or 8, served in the same regiments and was discharged on medical grounds 30/11/1842
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070127015135/http://www.btinternet.com/~james.mckay/browne.htm "Notes on the Tartan of the Highland Light Infantry"] by A.N.E. Browne. Scottish Military Historical Society website, now archived.
====Historical Books Online====
*[https://technicalarthistory.gla.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/tahg-poster-JBrunton-2017.pdf "The Assaye Regimental Colour of the 74th Regiment of Foot"] technicalarthistory.gla.ac.uk
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100922100136/http://www.wellingboroughrec.org.uk/blackh/blackarm.htm Black Soldiers in Northamptonshire Regiments of the British Army] wellingboroughrec.org.uk, now archived. William Damerun, a [[Anglo Indian| Eurasian]] enlisted at age 7 and served in the 74th Foot 24/09/1800-27/09/1805 (under age), the [[94th Regiment of Foot|94th Foot]], period not noted, but under age, the [[69th Regiment of Foot|69th Foot]], 25/09/1807-19/07/1824, the [[48th Regiment of Foot|48th Foot]],  20/07/1824-31/07/1834, and the [[55th Regiment of Foot|55th Foot]], 01/07/1834-30/11/1837 when he was discharged on medical grounds. He was a musician by trade. His brother James joined the 69th Foot 01/08/1808 as a drummer, aged 7 or 8, served in the same regiments and was discharged on medical grounds 30/11/1842
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/drregor/albums/72157626914281837 Photograph collection: Colonel Les Andrew: Razmak] flickr.com. 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry c 1920s-1930s.
 
====Historical books online====
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=DMkJ3xvg34AC&pg=PR21 ''Historical Record of the Seventy-Fourth Regiment (Highlanders) containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1787, and of its subsequent services to 1850'']  by Richard Cannon 1850. Google Books. The Regiment sailed for Madras in 1788, [http://books.google.com/books?id=DMkJ3xvg34AC&pg=PA4 page 4]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=DMkJ3xvg34AC&pg=PR21 ''Historical Record of the Seventy-Fourth Regiment (Highlanders) containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1787, and of its subsequent services to 1850'']  by Richard Cannon 1850. Google Books. The Regiment sailed for Madras in 1788, [http://books.google.com/books?id=DMkJ3xvg34AC&pg=PA4 page 4]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/n701/mode/2up ''History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments  Volume 2''] “74th Highlanders” by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org.  Indian service commenced  in 1788 in Madras
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/n701/mode/2up ''History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments  Volume 2''] “74th Highlanders” by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org.  Indian service commenced  in 1788 in Madras
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/638/mode/2up Ten years in India from 1854], page 638
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscotlan08browiala#page/50/mode/2up "Seventy-Fourth Regiment"], page 51 ''The History of Scotland, its Highlands, Regiments and Clans, Volume VIII'' by James Browne 1909 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscotlan08browiala#page/50/mode/2up "Seventy-Fourth Regiment"], page 51 ''The History of Scotland, its Highlands, Regiments and Clans, Volume VIII'' by James Browne 1909 Archive.org
*''Proud Heritage: The Story of the Highland Light Infantry'' by Lt.-Col. L. B. Oatts, D.S.O. Late H.L.I., in four volumes 1952-64. 
**[https://archive.org/details/proudheritage0001lboa/mode/2up ''Volume 1 The 71st HLI 1777-1881''] published 1952. Archive.org Texts to Borrow.
**[https://archive.org/details/proudheritage0002lboa ''Volume 2 The 74th Highlanders 1787-1882''] published 1959. Archive.org Texts to Borrow.
**[https://archive.org/details/proudheritagesto0003ltco ''Volume 3 1882-1918''] published 1961 Archive.org Texts to Borrow.
*:[https://archive.org/details/proudheritagev3 ''Volume 3 The Regular, Militia, Volunteer, T.A., and Service Battalions H.L.I. 1882-1918'']. A transcription. Archive.org
**''Volume 4'' 1919-1959 was previously available online on a subscription basis from the Regimental Museum, but this option no longer is listed on the website.
:[https://archive.org/details/highlandlightinf0000oatt/mode/2up ''The Highland Light Infantry (the 71st H.L.I. and 74th Highlanders)''] by L B Oatts 1969. Archive.org Texts to Borrow.  A book in the series ''Famous Regiments''.  (113 pages)
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oKAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA277 74th Highlanders at Bellary] page 277 ''Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862'' Google Books
*''Highland Light Infantry Chronicle''
**Google Books. Readers in some countries may be able to access all the following editions, but some  editions are no longer freely available. '''Note: Some Google Books links (URLs) which follow may not be permanent'''.
***[http://books.google.com/books?id=y6IkO2EyWxUC&pg=PA3 Jan 1893-Oct 1895] (not now generally available)
***[http://books.google.com/books?id=x2-j7t031foC&pg=PA555 Jan 1896-Jan 1897] (not now generally available)
***[http://books.google.com/books?id=JOuzfgh0BpgC&pg=PA705 Jan 1902-Oct 1904]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JOuzfgh0BpgC&pg=PA705 1902], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JOuzfgh0BpgC&pg=PA801 1903], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JOuzfgh0BpgC&pg=PA1 1904]
****"The Poligar War" [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JOuzfgh0BpgC&pg=PA795 Page 795] October 1902, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JOuzfgh0BpgC&pg=PA825 page 825] January 1903, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JOuzfgh0BpgC&pg=PA858 page 858] April 1903, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JOuzfgh0BpgC&pg=PA890 page 890] July 1903.
****[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JOuzfgh0BpgC&pg=PA115 "Sport in India"] page 115 October 1904  Catching a mahseer (fish) from an elephant.
***[http://books.google.com/books?id=DyWvI8qIKxkC&pg=PA1 Jan 1905-Oct 1907]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DyWvI8qIKxkC&pg=PA1 1905], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DyWvI8qIKxkC&pg=RA1-PA1 1906], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DyWvI8qIKxkC&pg=RA2-PA1 1907]
****[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DyWvI8qIKxkC&pg=RA1-PA29 "Madras, A Hundred Years Ago"] [74th Highlanders, 1805] page 29,  January 1906.
****[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DyWvI8qIKxkC&pg=RA2-PA97 "A Shooting Camp in Cooch Behar"] page 97  July 1907. 
***[http://books.google.com/books?id=7CBv9ybqIUwC&pg=PA1 Jan 1908-Oct 1910]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=7CBv9ybqIUwC&pg=PA1 1908], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=7CBv9ybqIUwC&pg=RA1-PA1 1909] Missing pages 145-152, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=7CBv9ybqIUwC&pg=RA2-PA1 1910].
***[http://books.google.com/books?id=o5JPEEQ1uNsC&pg=PA1 Jan 1911-Oct 1913]  (not now generally available)
***[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=pCxtyaZr8ZQC&pg=PA1 1914-1916]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=pCxtyaZr8ZQC&pg=PA1 1914],  [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=pCxtyaZr8ZQC&pg=RA1-PA9 1915], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=pCxtyaZr8ZQC&pg=RA3-PA1 1916]
**[https://www.yumpu.com/en/hli_chronicle Editions of the ''Highland Light Infantry Chronicle'' from 1906 to 1921] (broken range 1906-1907, 1909-1910, 1913-1918, 1921 (2 files, slight difference in number of pages))  including [https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/36164143/hli-chronicle-1913-the-royal-highland-fusiliers 1913], [https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/15401404/hli-chronicle-1917-the-royal-highland-fusiliers 1917], [https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/9338881/hli-chronicle-1918-the-royal-highland-fusiliers 1918], [https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/62595674/hli-chronicle-1921-the-royal-highland-fusiliers 1921] yumpu.com, posted by [https://www.yumpu.com/user/rhf.org.uk rhf.org.uk, yumpu.com]. Also included are volumes of the ''The Outpost'', 17th Service Battalion, HLI, Vol.s 1-3 and 7, for the period 1915-1918, including [https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/23273534/the-outpost-vol-1-the-royal-highland-fusiliers ''The Outpost'' Volume 1, 1915].
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20140701032006/http://rhf.org.uk/Books/Chronicle%20XLIX%20Vol_1.pdf  Volume XLIX, no 1 February 1953] Archive.org.  Page 29  briefly mentions  the experiences of Tam Gray in India 1933-1939 at Razmak and Peshawar with the 2nd Battalion.
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Latest revision as of 06:51, 29 July 2024

Chronology

  • 1787 raised as 74th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 merged with 71st (Highland) Light Infantry to become the 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry
  • 1959 amalgamated with the Royal Scots Fusiliers to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
  • 2003 amalgamated with the other regiments of the Scottish Division to become part of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
  • 2006 known as the Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2 SCOTS)

Regimental Journal

A regular regimental journal can be a valuable source of information. The Highland Light Infantry Chronicle was published quarterly, from Volume 1, no. 1 January 1893 to Volume 54, no. 3, December 1958. Some editions are available online, see below. The British Library has this publication in its catalogue. Another source may be the National Army Museum, or the Regimental Museum.

External links

Historical books online

The Highland Light Infantry (the 71st H.L.I. and 74th Highlanders) by L B Oatts 1969. Archive.org Texts to Borrow. A book in the series Famous Regiments. (113 pages)