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Kangaroos carrying men of the 7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders in Moergestel, Netherlands, 26 October 1944. The 6th Battalion was a 2nd Line TA unit that was transferred to the 17th Infantry Brigade, part of the 5th Infantry Division. It served with the division throughout the war in Sicily, Italy, and finally in Northwest Europe. [30]
2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment 15th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier E.O. Martin) 1st Battalion Green Howards 1st Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment 17th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier Dudley Ward) 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers 2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment 6th Battalion Seaforth ...
These were later numbered as the 191st, composed of the 2/4th, 2/5th, and 2/6th Seaforth Highlanders, 2/4th Cameron Highlanders, and 2/4th Black Watch; the 192nd, composed of the 2/4th, 2/5th, 2/6th, and 2/7th Gordon Highlanders and 2/6th and 2/7th Black Watch; and the 193rd, composed of the 2/6th, 2/7th, 2/8th, and 2/9th Argyll and Sutherland ...
The home defence battalion of the Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) was in turn absorbed into the 51st Highland Volunteers in 1969, with a rifle platoon of C (Queen's Own Highlanders) Company, 2nd Battalion, 51st Highland Volunteers still based at the Ferry Road drill hall. [6]
The 2nd Battalion was re-designated the 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion, The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) with headquarters still at Cooper Park in 1995. [5] Following the Strategic Defence Review in 1998, the presence at Cooper Park was reduced to a single rifle platoon of B (Highlanders) Company, the 51st Highlanders Regiment. [5]
John Mackenzie enlisted in the Seaforth Highlanders in August 1887, and served with the regiment in India, including the 1895 Chitral Expedition. Promoted corporal in May 1897, he was seconded for service in West Africa in November that year, where he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. He became a sergeant in March 1899. [2]
The regiment was raised by Francis Humberston MacKenzie, Chief of the Clan Mackenzie and later Lord Seaforth, as the 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot (or The Ross-shire Buffs) on 8 March 1793. [5] First assembled at Fort George in July 1793, [ 6 ] the regiment moved to the Channel Islands in August 1793, [ 7 ] and embarked for Holland in ...
11th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment (from October 1943) 11th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment (from November 1943) 9th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (from November 1943) 7th Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles (from November 1943) 209th Infantry Brigade [36] 9th Battalion, Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) (until October 1943)