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79th (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot |
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1793.08.17 |
79th (Highland-Cameron Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
raised in Scotland for Irish Establishment |
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1804 |
79th Regiment of Foot (Cameron Highlanders) |
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1873.08.01 |
79th (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
royal accolade granted by Queen Victoria |
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1881.07.01 |
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
reorganised as the county regiment of Inverness-shire, encompassing also its Militia and Volunteer infantry |
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BATTLE HONOURS LINKS ARE INOPERATIVE
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Egmont-Op-Zee, [Egypt]1,
[Corunna]2,
[Busaco]3,
Fuentes D'Onor, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Toulouse, Peninsula, Waterloo, Alma, Sevastopol, Lucknow,
1. the Sphinx badge superscribed "Egypt". 2. awarded belatedly in 1908. 3. awarded belatedly in 1910.
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Uniform: |
coat: scarlet, lapels and cuffs: light buff, turnbacks: light buff, lacings: white |
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Major Commandant: |
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1793.08.17 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Alan Cameron, KCB |
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Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant: |
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1794.11.30 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Alan Cameron, KCB |
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Colonel: |
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1805.01.01 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Alan Cameron, KCB |
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1828.03.24 |
Gen. Sir Ronald Crawford Ferguson, Bt., GCB |
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1841.04.29 |
Lt-Gen. Hon. John Ramsay |
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1842.07.14 |
Gen. Sir James Macdonell, GCB, KCH [also
71st Foot] |
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1849.02.08 |
Lt-Gen. James Hay, CB |
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1854.03.24 |
Gen. Sir Wiliam Henry Sewell, KCB |
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1862.03.14 |
Gen. Hon. Sir Hugh Arbuthnot, KCB [also 38th Foot] |
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1868.07.12 |
Lt-Gen. John Francis Glencairn Campbell, CB |
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1870.08.21 |
Gen. Henry Cooper [also 45th Foot] |
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1876.03.17 |
Gen. Sir Alfred Hastings Horsford, GCB [also
14th Foot, 2nd Bn The Rifle Brigade originally 95th Foot] |
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1879.01.01 |
Gen. Sir John Douglas, GCB |
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Mottos: |
Pro Rege et Patria |
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Marches: |
March of the Cameron Men, Pibroch of Doniul Dhu, Highland Laddie |
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