1881.07.01 Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs)
organised as the county regiment of Caithness-shire, Cromarty, Elginshire, Nairn, Ross-shire, Sutherland, and Orkney, encompassing its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] and uniting two regular battalions:
1st Battalion, formed by redesignation of 72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
2nd Battalion, formed by redesignation of 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot (The Ross-shire Buffs)

1881.11.22 Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
1921.01.01 The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
1951.09.01 Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
1961.02.07 amalgamated with The Queens' Own Cameron Highlanders, to form
Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons)


[combined battle honours of 72nd Regiment and 78th Regiment, plus:]
Carnatic1, Mysore2, South Africa 18353, Egypt 1882, Tel-El-Kebir, Chitral, Khartoum, Atbara, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1902

The Great War [19 battalions]: Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18 Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Armentières 1914, Festubert 1914 '15, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres 1915 '17 '18, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcapelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Béthune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Courtrai, Selle, Valenciennes, France and Flanders 1914-18, Macedonia 1917-18, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1918, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1915-18

The Second World War: Ypres-Comines Canal, Somme 1940, Withdrawal to Seine, St. Valery-en-Caux, Odon, Cheux, Caen, Troarn, Mont Pincon, Quarry Hill, Falaise, Falaise Road, Dives Crossing, La Vie Crossing, Lisieux, Nederrijn, Best, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Meijel, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Moyland, Rhine, Uelzen, Artlenberg, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, El Alamein, Advance to Tripoli, Mareth, Wadi Zigzaou, Akarit, Djebel Roumana, North Africa 1942-43, Landing in Sicily, Augusta, Francoforte, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Garigliano Crossing, Anzio, Italy 1943-44, Madagascar, Middle East 1942, Imphal, Shenam Pass, Litan, Tengnoupal, Burma 1942-44

3rd Battalion (Highland (Rifles) Militia): Mediterranean 1900-01
4th, 5th, 6th Battalions: South Africa 1900-02

1. awarded 1889 for service of 72nd Regiment in 1780-1784.
2. awarded 1889 for service of 72nd Regiment.
3. awarded 1882 for service of 72nd Regiment.

Badges: A stag's head caboshed, between the attires the Cypher and Coronet of th late Duke of Albany with the motto 'CUIDICH'N RIGH'
Uniform: piper green coatee (1951-61); facings: buff; tartan: Mackenzie Seaforth (kilts)

 

Regimental Museum of the Queen's Own Highlanders, Fort George (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

The Seaforth Highlanders Regimental Association

Deployment

1778.01.08 Seaforth Highland Regiment
raised in western Highlands and the Isles (inspected 15 May 1778 at Elgin)
1778 Colours presented by Earl of Seaforth
1778 Scotland: Edinburgh
1778.07.18 78th (Highland) Regiment of Foot
1778.09.12 Channel Islands: Guernsey & Jersey
1779.04 Jersey (5 coys)
1779.05 Guernsey & Jersey
1781.01 Jersey (5 coys)
1781.06.01 at sea (embarked at Portsmouth)
1781 Porto Praya naval battle
1782.03.31 India: Madras
1782.04 Chingleput
1782 Mysore war
1783 India
1786.04.26 72nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot
1787 Colours presented by Maj-Gen. James Murray
1790 Mysore war
1791 India
1793.08 Pondicherry
1793.08 India
1795 Ceylon
1798.02.02 England
1798? Scotland: Perth
1800 Colours presented by Lt-Col. Hugh Fraser at Perth
1800 Ireland: Newry
180u Clonmel & Kilkenny
180u Fermoy, Mallow, Rathkeale
1804.12.25 1st Battalion, 72nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot
redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion
180u Dublin, Cork
1805.07.31 at sea
1806.01.06 Cape: Lospard's Bay
1806.01 Cape of Good Hope Highland Bde
1806.01 Simonstown, CapeTown, Stellenbosch occupation force
1809.04.07 1st Battalion, 72nd Regiment of Foot
regt lost Highland status
1810.12 Mauritius
1810.12 Mauritius occupation force
1814 Cape of Good Hope
1816.01.01 72nd Regiment of Foot
redesignated on disbandment of 2nd Battalion
1815 India: Calcutta
1815 Cape of Good Hope
1819.07 Kaffir war
1819.08 Cape of Good Hope
1821 at sea
1821.12.22 England
1823 Channel Islands
1823.12.19 72nd (or Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
1824.09 Scotland: Edinburgh
1825.08.01 Colours presented by Lady Hope at Edinburgh
1825 Ireland
1827 London: Tower public duties in London
1828.07.01 at sea (embarked at Gravesend)
1828 Cape of Good Hope
1835 Kaffir war
1835 Cape of Good Hope
1840 at sea
1840.04.11 England
1842.01.26 Colours presented by F.M. Duke of Wellington at Windsor Castle
1842 Manchester, Preston, Blackburn, Bolton aid to civil power in industrial riots
1843 Ireland: Fermoy
1844.11.27 at sea
1844.12 Gibraltar
1848.02 at sea
1848 West Indies: Barbados dets in St. Lucia & Grenada
1849.12 Trinidad dets in Tobago & Demerara
1851.05 Barbados
1851.07 Nova Scotia: Halifax
1851.09 New Brunswick: Fredericton
1853 Nova Scotia: Halifax
1854. at sea
1854.10.12 Ireland
1854.12.14 at sea
1855.01 Malta
1855.05.29 Crimea Highland Bde
1856.07.06 at sea
1856.07.31 England: Portsmouth
1856.08 Channel Islands
1857.04 Shorncliff
1857.08.24 Colours presented by HRH Duke of Cambridge at Shorncliff
1857.09.04 at sea (embarked at Portsmouth)
1858.01 India: Bombay
1857 Sepoy rebellion
1859 India: Mhow (det at Indore)
1863 Umbeyla expedition
1863 Mhow
1865 Poona
1865 at sea
1865.11.16 England
1866.03 Scotland: Edinburgh
1867.05 England: Aldershot
1867.10 Manchester
1868.02 Ireland: Limerick, Cork
1871.02.21 at sea
1871 India: Bombay
1871 Umballa
1873 Peshawar
1875 Nowshera
1875 Cherat
1876 Sialkot
1878.11 Afghanistan
1880.11 India: Lucknow
1881.07.01 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders
1881 India: Bengal
1882.02.25 at sea
1882 Aden
1882.08.02 Egypt
1883.10.15 England: Parkhurst
1884.08.16 Colours presented by HM Queen Victoria at Osborne
1885 Aldershot
1886 Scotland: Glasgow
1889 Ireland: Fermoy
<1894> Tipperary
<1897> England: Aldershot
1897 Malta
1897 Crete occupation force
1898 Egypt
1898 Sudan
1899 Egypt
1903 India: Nasirabad
1906 Nowshera
1908.02 NW Frontier
1908.05 Nowshera
1910 Chaubattia
1911.12.11 Colours presented by HM King George V at Delhi
1912 Agra
1914.10 France and Flanders Meerut Div
1916.01 Mesopotamia
1918.06 Palestine
1919 Scotland: Fort George
1920 Ireland: Belfast
1924 England: Aldershot 2 Bde
1928 Dover
1933 Egypt & Palestine
1937 China: Hong Kong
1938 China: Shanghai
1940.08 Hong Kong
1940.11 Malaya
1941.02 India
1942.05 India 23 Ind Inf Div
1945 Malaya
1945.09 Dutch East Indies: Java
1946.10 Singapore
1948.10.07 amalgamated with 2nd Battalion without change of title
1948.06 Malaya Southern Sub-Dist
1950.12? Malaya 63 Gurkha Bde
1951.04 at sea
1951.06 Scotland
1952.04 Germany 31 Bde, BAOR
1954.06 Egypt
1955.06 Aden
1955.11 Gibraltar
1957.10 Germany: Münster 6 Bde, BAOR
1958.08.14 Colours presented by FM Sir Gerald Templer at Münster
1961.02.07 amalgamated with 1st Bn, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, to form 1st Bn, Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons)

2nd Battalion:

1793.03.08 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
raised in Scotland (2nd Battalion formed simultaneously)
1793.07.10 embodied at Fort George
1793 Guernsey
1794.09 Holland
1795.04 England
1795.06 France: Brittany
1795.08 England
1795.10 France: Brittany
1795.12 England
1796 Cape of Good Hope
1796 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
amalgamated with 2nd Battalion in South Africa
1797.02 India: Calcutta aaa
1803.02 Bombay
1803 Mahratta War aaa
1803.05 India
1804.05.17 1st Battalion, 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
redesignated upon re-formation of 2nd Battalion
1807.02 Goa
1811 Madras
1811.08 Java aaa
1816 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
amalgamated with 2nd Battalion
1816.11 at sea (4 coys wrecked on Peparis Island for one month)
1816.11 India: Calcutta
1817.07 England
1817.11 Ireland
1826.04 at sea
1826 Ceylon
1838.02 England
1842.04 at sea
1842 Aden
1842 India: Sciude
1857.01 Persia aaa
1857.05 India: Bombay
1857.05? Bengal
1857 Sepoy rebellion aaa
1859.05 at sea
1859.09 Scotland: Fort George
1860 Edinburgh, Hamilton
1861 England: Aldershot
1862 Shorncliffe
1864 England: Dover
1865.08.03 at sea
1865 Gibraltar
1867.07 at sea
1867 Canada: Montreal
1869.05.14 Nova Scotia: Halifax
1871.11.25 at sea ship: Orontes
1871.12.21 England?
1871 Scotland: Aberdeen
Ireland?
Scotland: Fort George
1879.02.16 at sea
1879 India
1879 Afghanistan aaaaaa
1880 India
1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
1881 Bengal
1888 Hazara aaa
India
1891 Hazara aaa
<1892> Kuldana
<1894> Ferozepore
1895.03 Chitral expedition
1895.08 Ferozepore?
1897 UK
1899.10 South Africa 3 Inf Bde
1903.01 Ireland: Dublin
<1909> Scotland: Edinburgh
<1912> England: Shorncliffe 10 Bde
1914.08 France and Flanders 4 Div
1919 India
<1922.01> Meerut
1924 Peshawar
1927 Lahore
1929 Meerut
1930 NW Frontier
1932 Palestine
1934 England: Dover 12 Bde
1937 Scotland: Glasgow 15 Bde
1939.09 France & Belgiumaa 5 Inf Div, BEF
1940.03 France & Belgium 51 Inf Div, BEF
1940.06 captured by the Germans at St. Valery
1940.08 re-formed in UK
1940.08 UK 51 Inf Div
1942.08 Middle East aaa
1943.07 Sicily 152 Bde, 51 Inf Div
1943 Italy aaa
1944.01 UK aaa
1944.06 NW Europe aaa
1945 Germany
1948.10.07 amalgamated with 1st Battalion