Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) [UK] (original) (raw)

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Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
crest and tie by A. Melville-Brown United Kingdom

1881.07.01 Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs) _organised as the county regiment of Caithness-shire, Cromarty, Elginshire, Nairn, Ross-shire, Sutherland, and Orkney, encompassing its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] and uniting two regular battalions:
1st Battalion, formed by redesignation of 72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) Regiment of Foot 2nd Battalion, formed by redesignation of 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot (The Ross-shire Buffs)
1881.11.22 Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
1921.01.01 The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
1951.09.01 Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
1961.02.07 amalgamated with The Queens' Own Cameron Highlanders, to form Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons)

RHQ and Depot:
Regulars:
Militia:
Territorials and Volunteers:
4th/5th (The Ross, Sutherland and Caithness) Battalion [1921-1941]
5th (The Sutherland and Caithness Highland) Battalion [1908-1921]
6th (Morayshire) Battalion [1908-1947]
11th Battalion [1947-1961]
Hostilities-Only Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates) :
2/4th (Ross Highland) Battalion [1914-1918]
4th (Reserve) (Ross Highland) Battalion [1915-1919]
2/5th (The Sutherland and Caithness Highland) Battalion [1914-1915]
5th (Reserve) (The Sutherland and Caithness Highland) Battalion [1915-1916]
5th (Caithness and Sutherland) Battalion [1941-1947]
2/6th (Morayshire) Battalion [1914-1917]
6th (Reserve) (Morayshire) Battalion [1915-1916]
7th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
7th (Morayshire) Battalion [1939-1947]
8th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
8th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
9th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
9th Battalion [1940-1945]
10th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1915]
30th Battalion [1941-1945?]
50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
No. 1 Independent Company [1943-1945?]

[_combined battle honours of 72nd Regiment and 78th Regiment, plus:_] Carnatic1, Mysore2, South Africa 18353, Egypt 1882, Tel-El-Kebir, Chitral, Khartoum, Atbara, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1902 The Great War [19 battalions]:Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18 Aisne 1914, La Bass�e 1914, Armenti�res 1914, Festubert 1914 '15, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres 1915 '17 '18, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozi�res, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcapelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, B�thune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Drocourt-Qu�ant, Hindenburg Line, Courtrai, Selle, Valenciennes, France and Flanders 1914-18, Macedonia 1917-18, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1918, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1915-18 The Second World War: Ypres-Comines Canal, Somme 1940, Withdrawal to Seine, St. Valery-en-Caux, Odon, Cheux, Caen, Troarn, Mont Pincon, Quarry Hill, Falaise, Falaise Road, Dives Crossing, La Vie Crossing, Lisieux, Nederrijn, Best, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Meijel, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Moyland, Rhine, Uelzen, Artlenberg, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, El Alamein, Advance to Tripoli, Mareth, Wadi Zigzaou, Akarit, Djebel Roumana, North Africa 1942-43, Landing in Sicily, Augusta, Francoforte, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Garigliano Crossing, Anzio, Italy 1943-44, Madagascar, Middle East 1942, Imphal, Shenam Pass, Litan, Tengnoupal, Burma 1942-44 3rd Battalion (Highland (Rifles) Militia): Mediterranean 1900-01 4th, 5th, 6th Battalions: South Africa 1900-02 1. awarded 1889 for service of 72nd Regiment in 1780-1784. 2. awarded 1889 for service of 72nd Regiment. 3. awarded 1882 for service of 72nd Regiment.

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1883? Col. HRH Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, KG, KT, GCSI, GCMG, KJStJ
1905.07.19
1920.12.07 F.M. HM King Edward VIII

1881 [1st Bn]: Gen. Sir Edward Selby Smyth, KCMG [also 2nd Foot]
1881 [2nd Bn]: F.M. Sir Patrick Grant, GCB, GCMG [also RHG, 104th Foot; C-in-C Madras 1856-61, Ag C-in-C India 1857; Gov. & C-in-C Malta; Gov. R Hospital 1874-95]
1893.08.29 Gen. Sir William Parke, KCB [also Worcestershire Regt]
1897.03.30 Gen. Sir Archibald Alison, Bt., GCB [also Essex Regt; AG 1888]
1907.02.06 Lt-Gen. Mostyn de la Poer Beresford
1911.08.20 Gen. Sir George Digby Barker, GCB [also N Staffs Regt; Gov. Bermuda 1896-1902]
1914.04.16 Maj-Gen. Robert Hunter Murray, CB, CMG
1924.07.31 Maj-Gen. Sir Colin John Mackenzie, KCB
1931.11.26 Maj-Gen. Sir Archibald Buchanan Ritchie, KBE, CB, CMG
1939.05.14 Lt-Gen. Sir William Montgomerie Thomson, KCMG, CB, MC
1947.07.01 Maj-Gen. Sir John Emilius Laurie, Bt., CBE, DSO
1957.03.15 F.M. Sir Archibald James Halkett Cassels, GCB, KBE, DSO [continued 1961 in QO Hldrs; also Col. Cmdt. RMP, Gurkha MP, APTC; CGS 1965-68, AG 1963-64; Gov. R Hospital 1969]

Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).
VCs in the Highlanders Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart.
VCs in the Dingwall Museum, by Iain Stewart.
Caithness Roll of Honour 1914-18, by David Bews.

Motto: Cuidich 'n Righ
Nicknames:
Anniversaries:
Freedoms:
Marches: quick: Blue Bonnets over the Border
slow: Scotland Forever
pipes & drums: Pibroch of Donuil Dubh
Musicians:
Band History, by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd) Band History, by David A.M. Terron (adapted from Turner & Turner) Bandmasters, by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd)
Mascot:
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:

Seaforth Highlanders of Canada 1912-1961
The Pictou Highlanders 1920?-1954
27th Infantry Battalion (The South Australian Scottish Regiment) 1952-1960
The Wellington Regiment (City of Wellington's Own) 1950-1961

[no external sites have been found]

Regimental Museum of the Queen's Own Highlanders, Fort George (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
Regimental Museum of the Queen's Own Highlanders, Fort George (Simonides listing)
Regimental Museum of the Queen's Own Highlanders, Fort George (Scottish Military Historical Society listing)

Regimental Journal:
Cabar Feidh.
Full Histories:
Short Histories:
Militia:
Territorials/Volunteers:
First World War:
Second World War: