Calcutta Scottish

The Calcutta Scottish was a regiment of volunteers of Scottish descent.

Chronology

• 1914 raised as an infantry regiment of the Indian Army.
• 1917, April 1 redesignated 44th Calcutta Scottish
• 1920, October 1 redesignated The Calcutta Scottish (Auxiliary Force, India)

FIBIS resources

• Photograph: Band of the Calcutta Scottish Volunteers c 1925 FIBIS Gallery.

Regimental Journal

The Calcutta Scottish Regimental Chronicle vol 1 no 1-vol 5 no 2 April 1933-July 1938 is available at the British Library

External links

• The Calcutta Scottish Volume 145, No. 9, May 2009 Newsletter of the Saint Andrew's Society of San Francisco, pages 1, 5, 7-9, now an archived webpage. Includes a photograph c 1916.
  • Four members of the Calcutta Scottish, along with 15 members of the Calcutta Light Horse took part in the raid on Axis shipping in 1943 in Goa. The party sailed a barge into Goa harbour and caused the sinking of three German merchantmen. See Calcutta Light Horse for more details.
• Calcutta Scottish Wikipedia. This article is based on the May 2009 newsletter above.
• Summary of the Commonwealth Scottish Regiments by Kim Stacy, c 2001. Scroll to brief information about the Calcutta Scottish including advice that the tartan was the Hunting Stewart Tartan. An image of Hunting Stewart Tartan. Scottish Military Historical Society website, now archived.