79th Regiment of Foot: Difference between revisions

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Third raising also known as Cameron Highlanders

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)

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.
"Cameron Highlanders or Seventy-Ninth Regiment", page 99, The History of Scotland, its Highlands, Regiments and Clans, Volume VIII by James Browne 1909 Archive.org
Shikar Sketches, with Notes on Indian Field-Sports by J Moray Brown, late 79th Cameron Highlanders.1887 Archive.org
"Topographical and Sanitary Report on the Station of Meean Meer" by Dr T G Scot, 79th Highlanders, page 367 Army Medical Department: Statistical Sanitary and Medical Reports for the year 1861 (published 1863) Google Books

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 *[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscotlan08browiala#page/98/mode/2up "Cameron Highlanders or Seventy-Ninth Regiment"], page 99, ''The History of Scotland, its Highlands, Regiments and Clans, Volume VIII'' by James Browne 1909 Archive.org
 *[http://www.archive.org/stream/shikarsketcheswi00browrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Shikar Sketches, with Notes on Indian Field-Sports''] by J Moray Brown, late 79th Cameron Highlanders.1887 Archive.org
+*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=StsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA367 "Topographical and Sanitary Report on the Station of Meean Meer"] by Dr T G Scot, 79th Highlanders, page 367 ''Army Medical Department: Statistical Sanitary and Medical Reports for the year 1861'' (published 1863)  Google Books
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