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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 ...
The Lorne Rifles (Scottish) (1866–1936) The Essex Scottish Regiment (1885–1954) The Highland Light Infantry of Canada (1886–1954, 1957–1965) The Lanark and Renfrew Scottish Regiment (1866–1946, 1959–1992) 50th Regiment (Gordon Highlanders of Canada) (1913–1920) The New Brunswick Scottish (1946–1954) The Pictou Highlanders (1871 ...
78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot; 79th (Scottish Horse Yeomanry) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery; 80th (Scottish Horse Yeomanry) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery; 87th Regiment of Foot (Keith's Highlanders) 88th Regiment of Foot (Highland Volunteers) 91st (Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery
5th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (56th Searchlight Regiment) – converted 1938 from 5/8th Bn Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) at Glasgow; 8th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (57th Searchlight Regiment) – formed 1 November 1938 by duplication of the above, based in south Glasgow; 52nd AA Brigade Company RASC
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 ...