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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Watch_(Royal_Highlanders) Black Watch] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Watch_(Royal_Highlanders) Black Watch] Wikipedia
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=pm1A_jGr5G8C&pg=PA100&dq=%2242nd+Royal+Highlanders,+Sergeants%22&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%2242nd%20Royal%20Highlanders%2C%20Sergeants%22&f=false List of Inscriptions on Christian Tombs and Tablets of Historical Interest in the United Provinces] Limited preview google books. Pages 100-103 details memorials to the 42nd Royal Highlanders who fell in the Mutiny campaigns 1857-1860. Also gives some background about the regiment
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=pm1A_jGr5G8C&pg=PA100&dq=%2242nd+Royal+Highlanders,+Sergeants%22&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%2242nd%20Royal%20Highlanders%2C%20Sergeants%22&f=false List of Inscriptions on Christian Tombs and Tablets of Historical Interest in the United Provinces] Limited preview google books. Pages 100-103 details memorials to the 42nd Royal Highlanders who fell in the Mutiny campaigns 1857-1860. Also gives some background about the regiment
*[http://www.richardmoles.com/ellison.html Private John Ellison in India 1860-1868] from RichardMoles.com
*[http://www.britisharmedforces.org/i_regiments/blackwatch_index.htm The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)] from British Armed Forces & National Service. Includes deployment of both the 1st and 2nd Battalions in India.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071216183323/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/042Black.htm The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)] Regiments.org (archived site)
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071216183323/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/042Black.htm The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)] Regiments.org (archived site)
 
*[http://www.blackwatch.50megs.com/indianhill.html The 1st Battalion Black Watch in India 1919-1936], [http://www.blackwatch.50megs.com/am.html Annual Manoeuvres 1933],  [http://www.blackwatch.50megs.com/move.html Barrackpore 1934] from the Black Watch Archive, a memorial to John Davidson, a Black Watch Soldier. Includes many photographs.


[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]
[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]

Revision as of 11:42, 31 March 2010

Also known as The Black Watch.

Chronology

  • 1725 four Independent Highland Companies raised to police Highlands, commonly called the Reicudan Dhu, or Black Watch
  • 1729 two additional companies raised
  • 1739 Earl of Craufurd's Regiment formed by regimentation of existing six coys and four new coys; also known until 1751 by the names of other colonels
  • 1751 became 42nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot
  • 1758 became 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot
  • 1861 became 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot, The Black Watch
  • 1881 amalgamated with the 73rd Regiment of Foot to become the 1st Battalion, Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch)
  • 2006 merged with five other Scottish regiments - the Royal Scots, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, the Royal Highland Fusiliers, The Highlanders and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders - to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland

Service in British India

External Links

Historical Books Online

History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments Volume 2 "The 42nd Royal Highland Regiment “The Black Watch” " by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org. Indian service commences page 419 in 1857.

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