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== Chronology == | == Chronology == | ||
'''1st Raising''' | '''1st Raising''' | ||
*'''1757''' raised as 64th Regiment of Foot on 14 November at Colchester by [ | *'''1757''' raised as 64th Regiment of Foot on 14 November at Colchester by [[William Draper|Colonel William Draper]] | ||
*'''1758''' became 79th Regiment of Foot | *'''1758''' became 79th Regiment of Foot | ||
*'''1763''' disbanded at the end of the Seven Year's War<br> | *'''1763''' disbanded at the end of the Seven Year's War<br> | ||
Revision as of 16:53, 22 March 2011
Third raising also known as Cameron Highlanders
Chronology
1st Raising
- 1757 raised as 64th Regiment of Foot on 14 November at Colchester by Colonel William Draper
- 1758 became 79th Regiment of Foot
- 1763 disbanded at the end of the Seven Year's War
2nd Raising
- 1778 raised as 79th Regiment of Foot (Royal Liverpool Voluntiers) served as marines
- 1784 disbanded at Liverpool
3rd Raising
- 1793 raised in Scotland for Irish Establishment as 79th (Highland-Cameron Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
- 1804 renamed the 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameron Highlanders)
- 1873 renamed the 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
- 1881 became The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
- 1961 combined with the Seaforth Highlanders to form the Queen's Own Highlanders
- 1994 amalgamated with the Gordon Highlanders to form The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
- 2006 amalgamated with the other Scottish infantry regiments into the single large Royal Regiment of Scotland becoming The Highlanders, 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (4 SCOTS)
Service in British India
- 1758 3rd Carnatic War
- 1801 Egyptian Campaign
- 1857 Indian Mutiny
- 1910 Bangalore
- 1913 Poona
- 1921 Kuldana
- 1924 Calcutta
- 1927 Rangoon
- 1930 Fyzabad
- 1938 Ahmednagar
- 1942 Burma
External Links
- 79th Foot 1st Raising www.kronoskaf.com
- 79th Foot 1st & 2nd Raising www.regiments.org
- 79th Foot 3rd Raising www.regiments.org
- 79th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
- Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) Wikipedia
- The 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders 1793-1853 www.electricscotland.com
- The 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders 1853-1873 www.electricscotland.com
- The 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders 1873-1886 www.electricscotland.com
- The 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders: 1881-1914 a brief summary of service from KiltsRock.com forum
Historical Books Online
- Historical Record of the Seventy-Ninth Regiment of Foot, or the Cameron Highlanders, by Captain Robert Jameson 1863. Google Books. Indian Service commences page 111 in 1857 in Madras, on the way to Calcutta.
- Historical records of the 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders 1887. Archive.org. Indian service commences page 715 in 1857 in Calcutta
- History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments "The 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders" by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org. Indian service commences page 715 in 1857.
- Shikar Sketches, with Notes on Indian Field-Sports by J Moray Brown, late 79th Cameron Highlanders.1887 Archive.org