1793: 79th (Highland-Cameron Volunteers) Regiment of Foot.

1804: 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameron Highlanders)

1873: 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot.

1881: The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

1961.02.07 amalgamated with 1st Bn, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's), to form 1st Bn, Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons)
Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's).

to form, Queen's Own Highlanders

World War One - 13 Battalions

The Great War (13 battalions): Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17 '18, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Hill 60, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917, Arleux, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Kemmel, Béthune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, St. Quentin Canal, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Struma, Macedonia 1915-18

Battle Honours WW2

Escaut, St Omer la Bassee, Somme, Valery en Caux, Falaise, La Vie Crossing, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine, North West Europe, Agordat, Keren, Abyssinia, Sidi Barrani, Tobruk, Gubi, Carmusa, Gazala, El Alamein, Mareth, Wadi Zigaoui, Akarit, Djebel Roumana, North Africa, Francofonte, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily, Cassino, Poggio del Grub, Gothic Line, Travoleto, Coriano, Pian di Castello, Monte Reggiano, Rimini Line, San Marino, Italy, Kohima, Naga Village, Aradura, Shwebo, Mandalay, Ava, Irrawaddy, Mt Popa, Burma.

 

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

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Deployment

1793.08.17 79th (Highland-Cameron Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
1793 Scotland
1794.02 Ireland
1794.06 England
1794.08 Flanders
1795.05 England
1795.07 West Indies
1797 England
1799.06 Channel Islands: Guernsey
1799.08 Holland
1799.10 England
1800 Spanish coast
1801.03 Egypt
1801.10 Minorca
1802 Scotland
1803 Ireland
1804.04 1st Battalion, 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameron Highlanders)
redesignated upon formation of 2nd Battalion
1805 England
1807.08 Denmark
1807.11 England
1808.05.10 at sea
1808.05.17 Sweden: Goteborg
1808.07.03 at sea
1808.07.15 England
1808.08 Portugal
1809 Peninsular war
1809 at sea (embarked at Corunna)
1809.02 England
1809.07 Holland: Walcheren
1809.09 England
1810 Portugal
1810 Peninsular war
1814.04 France
1814 Ireland: Cork
1815.05 Belgium
1815.06 Waterloo
1815.06 France Army of Occupation
1815.12.25 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameron Highlanders)
redesignated upon disbandment of 2nd Battalion
1818 England
1820 Ireland
1825 Canada
1836 Scotland
1839 England
1841 Gibraltar
1848 Canada
1851 Scotland
1853 England
1854.05 Scutari
1854.06 Bulgaria: Varna
1854.09 Crimea

1856 England
1857.06 Ireland
1857.07 at sea
1857 India
1857 Sepoy rebellion
1858 India
1871 England
1873.08.01 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
1875 Scotland
1879 Gibraltar
1882 Egypt
1882 Egypt
1885 Sudan
1887 England
1888.03 Scotland: Edinburgh
<1892> Malta
1895 Gibraltar
1897.03.31 1st Battalion, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion
1897 Egypt
1898 Sudan
1899 Egypt
1900.03 South Africa
1902 Scotland: Fort George
1904 Ireland: Dublin
1907 England: Tidworth
1910 England: Aldershot
1912 Scotland: Edinburgh
1914.08 France and Flanders GHQ/BEF
1914.09 France and Flanders 1 Div, BEF
1919.07 India: Presidency
1921 Kuldana
1924 Calcutta
1927 Rangoon
1930 Fyzabad
1934 Sudan
1936 England: Catterick
1939.09 France & Belgium 2 Inf Div, BEF
1940.06 UK
1942.06 India/Burma
1945 Japan 5 Bde, Brindiv, BCOF
1947 Malaya
1948.04 UK depot
1949.02 Libya 1 Bde
1951.11 Egypt
1952.06 Scotland: Edinburgh
1952.08 Austria
1952.11 Germany 31 Bde, BAOR
1955.12 Korea Commonwealth Contingent
1956.08 Aden
1958.03 England: Dover
1960.01 Scotland: Edinburgh
1961.02.07 amalgamated with 1st Bn, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's), to form 1st Bn, Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons)

2nd Battalion

1804.04 2nd Battalion, 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameron Highlanders)



1815.12.25 disbanded at Dundee
1897.03.31 2nd Battalion, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
raised at Fort George
1897 Scotland: Fort George
1899 Gibraltar
1902 Malta/Crete
1905 South Africa
1908 Tientsin
1910 India: Bangalore
1913 Poona
1914.12 France and Flanders 27 Div
1915.11 Macedonia
1919 England: Aldershot
1920.05 Ireland: Queenstown
1922 Germany Army of Occupation
1926 Scotland: Edinburgh
1930 England: Aldershot 5 Bde
1935 Palestine
1936 Palestine
1936 Egypt
1938.12 India: Ahmednagar
1939.09 Egypt 11 Ind Inf Bde, 4 Ind Inf Div
1941.01.06 Abyssinia: Sudan 11 Ind Inf Bde, 4 Ind Inf Div
1941.04.20 Egypt 11 Ind Inf Bde, 4 Ind Inf Div
1942 Libya 11 Ind Inf Bde, 4 Ind Inf Div
1942.05.22 captured by the Germans at Tobruk
1942.12.20 re-formed in Shetland Islands by redesignation of 4th Battalion
1943.01 UK
1944.01.03 Egypt
1944.01.25 Italy 7 Ind Inf Bde, 4 Ind Inf Div
1944.03 Italy 11 Ind Inf Bde
1944.11.25 Greece 11 Ind Inf Bde
1945.07.03 Austria 61 Inf Bde
1947 UK
1948.06.30 disbanded