92nd Regiment of Foot

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Known as The Gordon Highlanders.

Chronology

  • 1794 raised by the 4th Duke of Gordon as the 100th Regiment of Foot
  • 1798 became 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 amalgamated with the 75th Regiment of Foot to become the 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders
  • 1994 amalgamated with The Queens' Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) to form The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
  • 2004 amalgamated with the other Scottish infantry regiments into the single Royal Regiment of Scotland

Service in British India

Regimental journal

  • The Tiger and Sphinx, or Gordon Highlanders’ Chronicle. The British Library has issues 5 (1898) and 6 (1899)
  • The Tiger and Sphinx. New Series. The British Library has issues from 1924 to 1994

External Links

92nd Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
The Gordon Highlanders Wikipedia
The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) cabarfeidh.com
Royal Regiment of Scotland Wikipedia
92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site
The Gordon Highlanders including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site
Victorian Wars Forum thread 1st Garrison Battalion Gordon Highlanders The 1st Garrison battalion was formed in 1916 for service in India and did not exist before that time. It was known as 12th Bn for a short time. It moved to Blairgowrie before going in January 1917 to India. The battalion served in India until 1920, when it was brought back to England and disbanded
Gordon Highlanders Museum Covers the 75th and 92nd Regiments of Foot
Article including a photograph of a regimental wedding in Peshawar in 1906 (2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders). The bride was a nanny working for a British family. Guardian.co.uk
Photograph of a Gordon Highlander (2nd Battalion) in Indian white summer dress, Peshawar c 1904-1906 Victorian Wars Forum

Historical Books Online