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When the 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot, and 90th Perthshire Light Infantry amalgamated to form The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, seven pre-existent militia and volunteer battalions of Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway were integrated into the structure of the regiment.
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was a rifle regiment of the British Army, the only regiment of rifles amongst the Scottish regiments of infantry. It was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 26th Cameronian Regiment and the 90th Perthshire Light Infantry .
5th/6th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 5th/8th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 8th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (57th Searchlight Regiment) 8th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 10th (Scottish) Provisional Battalion (Territorial Force) 11th (Scottish) Provisional Battalion (Territorial Force) 15th Battalion ...
On 11 May the division was numbered as 52nd (Lowland) Division and the brigades also received numbers, the Scottish Rifles becoming 156th (Scottish Rifles) Brigade. As the leading battalion of the division, 1/8th Scottish Rifles under the command of Lt-Col H. Monteith Hannan, TD , boarded two trains from Falkirk to Devonport Dockyard where it ...
79th (Scottish Horse Yeomanry) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery 80th (Scottish Horse Yeomanry) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery 87th Regiment of Foot (Keith's Highlanders)
1/1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment (February to November) 10th (Lovat Scouts) (T.F.) Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (October to June) 19th Brigade. The brigade joined the division in May 1915 from the 6th Division leaving for the 2nd Division in August. 2nd Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers; 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish ...
Cameronians may refer to: . Cameronian group, a seventeenth-century religious group in Scotland named for its leader, Richard Cameron; 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot, a regiment of the British Army raised from among the Cameronians, in existence from 1689 to 1881
The barracks became the depot for the 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot and the 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot. [3] Under the Childers Reforms, the 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot amalgamated with the 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) to form the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) with its depot in the barracks in 1881. [3]