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==FIBIS resources==  
 
==FIBIS resources==  
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_view_image.php?fid=2874 Photograph: Band of the Calcutta Scottish Volunteers c 1925] FIBIS database
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*[https://gallery.fibis.org/picture.php?/3052/search/4610 Photograph: Band of the Calcutta Scottish Volunteers c 1925] FIBIS Gallery.
  
 
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**Four members of the Calcutta  Scottish, along with 15 members of the Calcutta Light Horse took part in the raid on Axis shipping in 1943 in Goa.  The party sailed a barge into Goa harbour and caused the sinking of three German merchantmen. See [[Calcutta Light Horse]] for more details.
 
**Four members of the Calcutta  Scottish, along with 15 members of the Calcutta Light Horse took part in the raid on Axis shipping in 1943 in Goa.  The party sailed a barge into Goa harbour and caused the sinking of three German merchantmen. See [[Calcutta Light Horse]] for more details.
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcutta_Scottish Calcutta Scottish]  Wikipedia. This article is based on the May 2009 newsletter above.
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcutta_Scottish Calcutta Scottish]  Wikipedia. This article is based on the May 2009 newsletter above.
*Details of the  [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80010402 1989 interview with Frank Wildish], Indian Army Officer from 1940. Reel 1 includes joining Calcutta Scottish auxiliary forces (c late 1930s).  Currently (March 2015) not availablle to listen to online, but check at later dates. Imperial War Museums
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20070926215736/http://www.btinternet.com/~james.mckay/commonwr.htm Summary of the Commonwealth Scottish Regiments] by Kim Stacy, c 2001. Scroll to brief information about the Calcutta Scottish including advice that the tartan was the Hunting Stewart Tartan. [https://web.archive.org/web/20061212133516/http://www.btinternet.com/~james.mckay/tartan1.htm An image of Hunting Stewart Tartan]. ''Scottish Military Historical Society'' website,  now archived.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20070926215736/http://www.btinternet.com/~james.mckay/commonwr.htm Summary of the Commonwealth Scottish Regiments] by Kim Stacy, c 2001. Information  by the Scottish Military Historical Society,  now an archived webpage.
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Latest revision as of 02:54, 23 October 2022

The Calcutta Scottish was a regiment of volunteers of Scottish descent.

Chronology

  • 1914 raised as an infantry regiment of the Indian Army.
  • 1917, April 1 redesignated 44th Calcutta Scottish
  • 1920, October 1 redesignated The Calcutta Scottish (Auxiliary Force, India)

FIBIS resources

Regimental Journal

The Calcutta Scottish Regimental Chronicle vol 1 no 1-vol 5 no 2 April 1933-July 1938 is available at the British Library

External links

  • The Calcutta Scottish Volume 145, No. 9, May 2009 Newsletter of the Saint Andrew's Society of San Francisco, pages 1, 5, 7-9, now an archived webpage. Includes a photograph c 1916.
    • Four members of the Calcutta Scottish, along with 15 members of the Calcutta Light Horse took part in the raid on Axis shipping in 1943 in Goa. The party sailed a barge into Goa harbour and caused the sinking of three German merchantmen. See Calcutta Light Horse for more details.
  • Calcutta Scottish Wikipedia. This article is based on the May 2009 newsletter above.
  • Summary of the Commonwealth Scottish Regiments by Kim Stacy, c 2001. Scroll to brief information about the Calcutta Scottish including advice that the tartan was the Hunting Stewart Tartan. An image of Hunting Stewart Tartan. Scottish Military Historical Society website, now archived.