79th Regiment of Foot

Third raising also known as Cameron Highlanders

Chronology

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)

Service in British India

• 1758 3rd Carnatic War
• 1801 Egyptian Campaign
• 1857 Indian Mutiny
• 1910 Bangalore
• 1913 Poona
• 1921 Kuldana
• 1924 Calcutta
• 1927 Rangoon

In May 1930, following the massacre of Indians by Burmese in Rangoon, a detachment of the regiment occupied the centre of the Indian quarter, planting their machine-guns in such away as to make it impossible for the Burmese to invade the area.

• 1930 Fyzabad
• 1938 Ahmednagar
• 1942 Burma

External links

• 79th Foot 1st Raising www.kronoskaf.com
• 79th Foot 1st & 2nd Raising www.regiments.org, an archived site
• 79th Foot 3rd Raising including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion www.regiments.org, an archived site
• 79th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
• Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) Wikipedia
• The 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders 1793-1853 www.electricscotland.com
• The 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders 1853-1873 www.electricscotland.com
• The 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders 1873-1886 www.electricscotland.com
• The 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders: 1881-1914 a brief summary of service from KiltsRock.com forum
• Inverness Memorial to the men of the The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders who died in Egypt and the Sudan 1882-1887 and 1898 Wakefieldfhs.org
• The Highlanders Museum Covers the 72nd( Seaforth Highlanders), 78th (Ross-shire Buffs) and the 79th Regiments of Foot
  • The Museum has published Regimental journals online, see Historical books online below.

Historical books online

• 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.
• 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.
• Historical records of the 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders 1887 by Captain TA Mackenzie, Lieutenant JS Ewart and Lieutenant C Findlay. Archive.org. Indian service commences page 128 in 1857.
• Historical Records of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, Volume 1 and Volume 2 1909 by the Regimental Committee. Archive.org

Historical Records of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders 1932-1948 [Part 2], [Volume 6] Archive.org

(Volume 3 (1931), Volume 4 (1931) and Volume 5 1952 are Searchable, but not viewable Google Books)

• "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
• The regimental journal, The 79th News: Editions from 1898 to 1960 museummagazines.com, a website of the Highlanders’ Museum. Note however, this website is now password protected. The Home page contains links for the journals after 1960.