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The Queen's
Own
Cameron Highlanders |
crest and tie
by James Robinson |
United
Kingdom
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| 1793 | 79th (Highland-Cameron
Volunteers) Regiment of Foot raised in Scotland for Irish Establishment |
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| 1804 | 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameron Highlanders) | |
| 1873 | 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot | |
| 1881.07.01 | The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders | |
| 1961.02.07 | amalgamated with Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's), to form Queen's Own Highlanders | |
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The
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, by George Monaghan.
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Fact
File, by Diana M. Henderson (Scots at War)
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The
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (Scottish Military Historical
Society)
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History of the Regiment, by Alan Willis. | |
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79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders [1793-1886]by Electric Scotland. | |
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The
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders ... movements ... during the Great
War, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
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The
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders [in the Great War], by C. F.
Baker (The British Army in the Great War).
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| Regulars: | ||
| 1st Battalion [1793-1961] | ||
2nd Battalion [1804-1815, 1897-1948]
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Militia
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| Inverness, Banff, Elgin and Nairn Regiment
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Lineage
(Scottish Military Historical Society)
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Territorials and Volunteers
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Lineage,
1859-1908 (Scottish Military Historical Society)
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| Egmont-Op-Zee,
Egypt1,
Corunna2,
Busaco3, Fuentes D'Onor, Salamanca, Pyrenees,
Nivelle, Nive, Toulouse, Peninsula,
Waterloo, Alma, Sevastopol,
Lucknow,
Egypt 1882, Tel-El-Kebir,
Nile 1884-5, Khartoum, Atbara, South
Africa, 1900-02
The Great War (13 battalions): Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17 '18, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Hill 60, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917, Arleux, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Kemmel, Béthune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, St. Quentin Canal, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Struma, Macedonia 1915-18 The Second World War: Defence of Escaut, St. Omer-La Bassée, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Falaise, Falaise Road, La Vie Crossing, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Agordat, Keren, Abyssinia 1941, Sidi Barrani, Tobruk 1941 '42, Gubi II, Carmusa, Gazala, El Alamein, Mareth, Wadi Zigzaou, Akarit, Djebel Roumana, North Africa 1940-43, Francofonte, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Cassino 1, Poggio del Grub, Gothic Line, Tavoleto, Coriano, Pian di Castello, Monte Reggiano, Rimini Line, San Marino, Italy 1944, Kohima, Relief of Kohima, Naga Village, Aradura, Shwebo, Mandalay, Ava, Irrawaddy, Mt. Popa. Burma 1944-45 4th Battalion: South Africa 1900-02 1. the Sphinx badge superscribed "Egypt". |
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Battle Honors, by Alan Willis. |
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Regimental Colours, by Alan Willis. | |
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| Uniform: | piper green coatee (1951-1961); facings: blue; tartan: Cameron of Erracht (kilt) | |||||||
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| 1902.11.12 | F.M. HM King George V | |
| 1936.12.10 | F.M. HM King George VI | |
| 1953.06.02 | F.M. HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, GBE, AC, QSO | |
| Honorary Colonel, 4th Battalion: | ||
| 1920.07.01 | F.M. HM King George VI | |
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| 1951.09.02 | Maj-Gen. Douglas Neil Wimberley, CB, DSO, MC | |
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Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference). | |
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VCs in the Highlanders Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart. | |
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Sergeant George Sands MM [WW2], by Richard Sands. | |
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16th Infantry Battalion (The Cameron Highlanders
of Western Australia)
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The Otago and Southland Regiment
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1st Battalion, 79th Cameron Highlanders, 1793-1918, by Allan Willis. | |
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Regimental Museum of the Queen's Own Highlanders, Fort George (Army listing) | |
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West Highland Museum, Fort William (Army listing) | |
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Regimental Museum of the Queen's Own Highlanders, Fort George (Simonides listing) | |
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Regimental Museum of the Queen's Own Highlanders, Fort George (Scottish Military Historical Society listing) | |
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