90th Regiment of Foot: Difference between revisions

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1794 raised as the 90th Regiment of Foot in Scotland as a light infantry corps
1802 became the 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers)
1815 became the 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) (Light Infantry)
1881 amalgamated with the 26th (The Cameronian) Regiment of Foot to form The Cameronians (Scotch Rifles)
1968 disbanded

Records of the 90th Regiment, (Perthshire Light Infantry) ; with roll of officers from 1795 to 1880 by Alexander Marin Delavoye 1880 Archive.org. The Regiment sailed for Ceylon in 1836, page 95
"The 90th Perthshire Light Infantry" from The Lowland Scots Regiments : their origin, character and services previous to the great war of 1914 edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell 1918 Archive.org. The Regiment sailed for Ceylon in 1836, page 284

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 *[http://web.archive.org/web/20080109015914/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/090-794.htm 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) (Light Infantry)] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20071219150158/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/090-1.htm deployments] regiments.org, an archived website
 *[http://web.archive.org/web/20071220001232/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/026Camer.htm The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20080103195943/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/026-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071219150158/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/090-1.htm 2nd Battalion] regiments.org, an archived website
-*Great War Forum [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=186677&#entry1823920 post]  about Harry William Lloyd, enlisted as a Boy soldier in 1915, died Quetta 1924, a member of the Scottish Rifles
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