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The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders).
473
Yrs' Ser.
Full Hlf
2ND LIEUT.
Lieutenants.
Borton, Aniyas Eden, Flying Officer, Royal I
Flying Corps, 28 Apr. 14 i
Sprot, James William Lennox, Adjutant 2nd Bn. I
Channel Islands Militia, 15 May 13 f
Cruden, James Wilson Frazer, Adjutant $th Bn. I
Gordon Highlanders {temp. Capt.), 27 Apr. 14 f
Ewing, John Ludovic Stewart, Adjt. 8th Bn., 1
1 Sept. 14 !
Anderson, Francis
Warrand, Alastair St. John M
Holt, Alvvyn Vesey, Lieut, yd Battalion
McLeod, Alexander Kelty, Lieut. $rd Battalion.
Orr-Ewing, Hugh Eric Douglas
Inglis, James Normand, Lieut. Militia, 14 Feb. 06
Hamilton-Johnston, Douglas C
Durie, James Alfred
Anstruther, Robert E
Mackintosh, Douglas Bruce, Colonial Office, [
13 Aug. 13 I
Anderson, Robert C
Denison, Archibald C
Sutherland, Arthur H. C„ A.D.C. to Lt.-Gen. Sir}
]. I'/. Murray, K.C.B., General Officer Com- 1
manding-in-Chief Forces in South Africa, ,
18 Apr. 14 J
Rycroft, Julian Neil Oscar
Gilroy, Kenneth Reid
Willcocks, James Lugard
Edwards, William Hardinge Colvin
Rennie, J chn Lloyd
MacLeod, Ian Breac
Rollo, John Eric Henry
Houstoun-Boswall, William Evelyn
Second Lieutenants.
Gilmour, Charles D
Buist, Kenneth
McMicking, Neil
Stewart, William Dcbenham MacL.
Don, Reginald Gilbert
Blair, Patrick Edward Adam ....
MacRae, Kenneth Stuart
Stewart, Hon. Keith Anthonv
Maxwelll, Richard Sydney S.'
Campbell, Patrick Kinloch
Richard, John Ernest Miller ....
Murray-Menzies, Clive William . .
Kirk, Duncan Kinlock
Hay, Lindsay FitzGerald
Mackenzie, Roderick Ian
Park, Maitland E
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Quarter Masters . . 2 Anderson, James, 28 Sept. 10 ; hon. Lieut.
1 Fowler, William, 14 Jan. 11 ; hon. Lieut.
Goudy, Patrick, 25 Aug. 14 ; hon. Lieut.
McClellan, Creighton William, 4 Oct. 14 ; hon. Lieut.
Uniform Scarlet, Facings Blue. — Agents, Messrs. Cox and Co.
Record of the Services of the 1st Battalion Black Watch, — formerly the 42nd (Royal Highland — The Black Watch) Regiment.
Independent Companies raised for service in the Highlands and styled " Black Watch," 1729. Formed into a Regiment
and numbered 43rd, 1739. Scotland and England, 1743. Flanders, to 1745. England, to September, 1746. France, to
Nov. 1746. Ireland and England, to 1747. Flanders, to 1748. England and Ireland, to 1756. (Number changed to
42nd, 1749.) America, to 1761. [2nd Battalion raised in 1758. West Indies, to 1758. America, to 1763. Reduced,
1763. Afterwards re-embodied, served in India, and formed into a Regiment in 1786, styled " The 73rd Highland Regiment
of Foot."] West Indies, to 1762. America, to 1767. Ireland and Scotland, to 1776. America, to 1789. England and
Scotland, to 1793. Coast of France, to Jan. 1794. England, to June 1794. Flanders, 1795. (Red Heckle conferred by
King George III. for the affair at Guiklermalson in 1795). England, to 1796. (Five Companies embarked in 1795 for the
West Indies, rejoining Head Quarters at Gibraltar in 1797). Gibraltar, to 1798. Minorca, to Aug. 1800. Gibraltar, to Oct.
1800. Egypt, to 1801 (" Egypt" with the Sphinx). England and Scotland, to 1805. [2nd Battalion raised in 1803 and
served in the Peninsula until consolidated with the 1st Battalion in 1812.] Gibraltar, to 1808. Peninsula, to 1809 (battles
of Vimiera and Corunna). England, to July 1809. Walcheren Expedition, to Sept. 1809. England and Scotland, to 1812.
The Peninsula, to 1814 (battles of Fuentes D'Onor, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse). Ireland, to May 1815.
Flanders, to Dec. 1815 (battle of Waterloo). England, Scotland and Ireland, to 1825. Gibraltar, to 1832. Malta, to
1834. Ionian Islands, to 1836. England, Scotland and Ireland, to 1840. Ionian Islands, to 1843. [Reserve Battalion
formed in 1842, and served in MaHa and the West Indies until consolidated with the 1st Battalion in 1850.] Malta, to 1847.
West Indies, to 1851. Canada, to 1852. Scotland and England, to 1854. Turkey and the Crimea, to 1856 (battle of Alma
and siege of Sebastopol). England, to 1857. India, to 1868 (capture of Lucknow). Scotland and England, to 1873.
Gold Coast, to Mar. 1874 (Ashanti war). England, to Nov. 1874. Malta and Cyprus, to 1878. Gibraltar, to 1879. England
and Scotland, to 1882. Egypt and the Soudan, to 1886 (battles of Tel-el-Kebir and Kirbekan). Malta, to 1889. Gibraltar,
to Jan. 1893. Egypt, to Mar. 1893. Head Quarters and Half Battalion to Mauritius, to Mar. 1893. Half Battalion, to
Cape-Town, Apr. 1893. To India, 1896.

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