1881: The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) organised as the county regiment of Lanarkshire and uniting two regular battalions.

1st Battalion - 26th (The Cameronian) Regiment of Foot

2nd Battalion - (90th Regiment of Foot) (Perthshire Volunteers) Light Infantry.

1881: The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

1968: 1st Battalion dis-banded (last regular unit)

1988: RHQ closed.

World War One - 27 Battalions

The Great War [27 battalions]3: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914, Armentières 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Ypres 1917 '18, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, St Quentin, Rosières, Avre, Lys, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenberg Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, St Quentin Canal, Cambrai 1918, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915-18, Gallipoli 1915-16, Rumani, Egypt 1916-17, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jaffa, Palestine 1917-18

Battle Honours WW2

Ypres-Comines Canal, Odon, Cheux, Caen, Mont Pincon, Estry, Nederrijn, Best, Scheldt, South Beveland, Walcheren Causeway, Asten, Roer, Rhineland, Reichswald, Moyland, Rhine, Dreirwalde, Bremem, Artlenberg, North West Europe, Sicily, Simeto Bridgehead, Garigliano Crossing, Anzio, Tiber, Italy, Pegu, Paungde, Yenagyaung, Chindits, Burma.

 

The Cameronians Regimental Museum, Hamilton (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

Deployment

1st Battalion.

1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Cameronians (Scotch Rifles)
1881 England: Shorncliffe
<1885> Scotland:Glasgow
<1889> Ireland: Cork
<1892> England: Aldershot
<1894> Portsmouth
1894 India
<1897> Rhaniket
<1899> Lucknow
<1904> Nowshera
<1909> Cawnpore
1909 South Africa
1912 Scotland: Glasgow
1914.08 France and Flanders LofC, BEF
1914.10 France and Flanders 6 Div
1915.05 France and Flanders 27 Div
1915.08 France and Flanders 2 Div
1915.11 France and Flanders 33 Div
1919 Ireland: Curragh
1922 England: Aldershot 5 Bde
<1928.01> Catterick 13 Bde
1931.11 India: Lucknow
1937 Assam
1942.02 Burma
1943.03 Burma LRP
1943.09 India/Burma 36 Inf Div
1946 Malaya
1946 reduced to nil strength
1948.09.19 amalgamated with 2nd Battalion at Gibraltar without change of title
1948 Gibraltar
1948 Trieste
1949.12 Hong Kong
1950.03 Malaya
1953.05 UK
1954.07 Germany: Buxtehude 31 Bde
1956.04 Buxtehude 10 Bde
1956.09 UK
1957.08 [Oman]
1967.09 UK
1957.10 Kenya
1958.08.07 Jordan 16 Para Bde
1958.11 UK
1960.05 Germany: Höhne
1963 Scotland: Edinburgh
1966.05 Aden Aden Bde
1967.02 Scotland: Glasgow
1968.05.14 disbanded at Castle Dangerous, Douglas

2nd Battalion

1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
<1885> Cawnpore
<1889> Rhaniket
<1892 Jubbulpore
1895 England
<1897> Parkhurst
<1899> Gibraltar
1899.10 South Africa 4 Inf Bde
1902 South Africa
1907 England: Aldershot
1910 Malta
1914.11 France and Flanders 8 Div
1918.02 France and Flanders 20 Div
1919 Mesopotamia
1922.01 India: Quetta
1923 Kurdistan
<1924.01> Baluchistan/Waziristan
<1930.01> Scotland
1932 England: Portsmouth 9 Bde
1937 Palestine
1938 England: Catterick 13 Bde
1939.09 France & Belgium 5 Inf Div, BEF
1940.06 UK
1942.05 Madagascar
1942.06 Persia & Iraq
1943.07 Sicily
Italy
1945.02 NW Europe
1946 Gibraltar