91st Regiment of Foot: Difference between revisions

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Known as the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders from 1881.

1794 raised as the 98th (Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
1796 redesignated 91st (Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
1872 renamed 91st (Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
1881 amalgamated with the 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot becoming the 1st Battalion, Princess Louise's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
2004 amalgamated with the other regiments of the Scottish Division to become part of the Royal Regiment of Scotland

Historical Records of the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders, now the 1st Battalion Princess Louise's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, containing an account of the Regiment in 1794, and of its subsequent services to 1881 by Gerald Lionel Joseph Goff (1891) Archive.org. Indian services commences page 232 in 1858 in Bombay. The voyage there involved a seventeen miles trek across the desert to Suez by donkey.
History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments Volume 2 "The 91st Princess Louise Argyllshire Highlanders " by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org. Indian service commences page 810 in 1858
The History of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) 1794-1939 may be read online at a FamilySearch Centre on a Family History Library computer

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