91st Regiment of Foot

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Known as Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

Chronology

  • 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

External Links

Historical Books Online

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.

Other

91st Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Wikipedia