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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.
Shikar Sketches, with Notes on Indian Field-Sports by J Moray Brown, late 79th Cameron Highlanders.1887 Archive.org

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 *[http://www.kiltsrock.com/forum/index.php?/topic/7283-scottish-military-highland-regiments/page__view__findpost__p__95359 The 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders: 1881-1914] a brief summary of service from KiltsRock.com forum
 *[http://wakefieldfhs.org.uk/genealogyjunction/Inverness-shire/Inverness/EgyptSudanWarMemorial.html Inverness Memorial] to the men of the  The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders  who died in [[Egyptian Campaign 1882|Egypt]] and the [[Sudan Campaign|Sudan]] 1882-1887 and 1898 Wakefieldfhs.org
+*[http://www.thehighlandersmuseum.com   The Highlanders Museum] Covers the [[72nd Regiment of Foot|72nd( Seaforth Highlanders)]], [[78th Regiment of Foot|78th (Ross-shire Buffs)]] and the 79th Regiments of Foot
 ====Historical Books Online====
 *[http://books.google.com/books?id=pR8RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Historical Record of the Seventy-Ninth Regiment of Foot, or the Cameron Highlanders''], by Captain Robert Jameson 1863. Google Books. Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=pR8RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA111 page 111] in 1857 in Madras, on the way to Calcutta.