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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 .
57th (8th Battalion, Cameronian Scottish Rifles) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) 125th (Cameronians) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
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 ...
5th (Blythswood Rifles) Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps; 5th (Glasgow Highland) Volunteer Battalion, Highland Light Infantry; 5th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (56th Searchlight Regiment) 5th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 5th City of Glasgow Battery, Royal Field Artillery; 5th Reserve Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
The Atholl Highlanders is a ceremonial Scottish regiment which not part of the British Army but under the command of the Duke of Atholl, based at Blair Castle. It was presented with colours by Queen Victoria in 1844, giving the regiment official status. [ 8 ]
In August 1940 the RA took over all the S/L regiments in AA Command, after which the regiment was designated 56th (5th Battalion, Cameronian Scottish Rifles) Searchlight Regiment, RA. [ 6 ] [ 9 ] [ 77 ] [ 79 ] [ 86 ] [ 87 ] The regiment supplied a cadre of experienced officers and men to 235th S/L Training Rgt at Ayr where it provided the basis ...
The regiment's territorial components formed duplicate second and third line battalions. As an example, the battalions of the 4th King's were numbered as the 1/4th, 2/4th, and 3/4th respectively. Many battalions of the Royal Scots were formed as part of Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener's appeal for an initial 100,000 men volunteers in ...