CAMERON HIGHLANDERS.
Battie Honours—Egmont-op-Zee, Ecypt with tie Sphinx, Fubites dOnor, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivslle, Nive, Toulouse, Peninsula, Waterloo, Alma, Sebastopol, Lucknow, Egypt (1882). Tel-el-Kebir, !Nile (1884-5), Khartoum, Atbara. Uniform—Scarlet -with blue facings, kilt, feather bonnet with white hackle. "And Wild and high the Camerons gathering rose • Th/s war not of Lochiel, Vrhich Albyn's kills Have heard, and heard, too, iiave her Saxon foes."
Lord Byron, in these lines, describing the field of Waterloo, refers to the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. The regiment was formerly the 79th, which was founded in 1793 by Sir Allan Cameron, from the clan, iwhich had so distinguished itself in its devoted loyalty to the Stuarts. Tie regiment, like the otfoer warlike "children of the mist and fell," has a splendid record. At the Alma they formed part of the Highland Brigade, which consisted of tbe Black Watch and the famous 93rd— tfte "thin red streak tipped with a line of steel."
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10883, 6 February 1901, Page 8
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