'Images Right - Commemorative Stamp - 92nd Gordon Highlander. CJB Collection: Badges left - 92nd Highlanders, 1869 -1878, Victoria Crown, courtesy of Military Badge Collection - Niels Pedersen (adapted); Gordon Highlanders WW1, courtesy of British Military Badges - Daniel Baker

The Gordon Highlanders

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75th (Highland) Regiment of Foot

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75th Regiment of Foot

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92nd Foot (Gordon Highlanders)

92nd Gordon Highlanders

92nd (Gordon Highlanders)

92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot

92nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot

92nd Regiment of Foot

100th Regiment of Foot (Gordon Highlanders)

Abercromby's Highlanders

Stirlingshire Regiment.

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The Gordon Highlanders

The Gordon Highlanders was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed for 113 years, from 1881 until 1994 when it was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) to form the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons).

Active - 1881-1994

Motto - Bydand

Uniform -

Corps March - Cock o' the North

Nick-name -

Ancestry

8.1.4. - The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)

Prior to 28 March 2006, an infantry regiment in its own right; The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons), part of the Scottish Division. The regiment was the only one in the British Army with a Gaelic motto - Cuidich 'n Righ which means "Help the King"

Formed 17 September 1994 as part of the Options for Change defence review, by the amalgamation of ...

8.1.4.1. Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) (separate Project)

and the

8.1.4.2. The Gordon Highlanders. This Project

75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot - which became the 1st Battalion of the new regiment

- and the

92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot, which became the 2nd Battalion.

8.1.4.1. - Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons)

and

8.1.4.2. - The Gordon Highlanders.

...a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed for 113 years, from 1881 until 1994 when it was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) to form the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons).

The regiment was formed on 1 July 1881 under the Childers Reforms. The new two-battalion regiment was formed out of the

====8.1.4.2.1 - 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot - which became the 1st Battalion of the new regiment -

and the

8.1.4.2.2. - 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot, which became the 2nd Battalion.

later re-designated the 75th Regiment of Foot and, later still, the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot,

Timeline

8.1.4.2.1 - 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot

1787 - Raised by General Sir Robert Abercromby as 75th (Highland) Regiment of Foot or Abercromby's Highlanders for service in the British East India Company
1788 - India - stationed at Bombay and Madras.
1799 - Battle of Seringapatum
1805 - Seige of Bhurtpore

 '''1806''' - Returned to Britain

1807 - Became 75th Regiment of Foot (Note - Wiki gives 1809 for this name change. Both Brereton and Lumley have 1807). Colloquially it was known as the Stirlingshire Regiment.
1811-1814 - stationed in the Mediterranean - Sicily (Napoleonic Wars)
1814-1823 - stationed at Ionian Islands and Gibraltar (Napoleonic Wars)
1849 - India participating in the Sepoy Rebellion, 1857, and the Siege of Lucknow.
1862 - formally regained its territorial designation 75th Foot (Stirlingshire) (see badge right)
1881 - Amalgamated with 92nd Foot (Gordon Highlanders) becoming The Gordon Highlanders

Battle honours

• Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: Seringapatam, India,
• Indian Mutiny: Delhi 1857, Lucknow

Colonels of the Regiment

75th (Highland) Regiment of Foot

• 1787–1827: Gen. Sir Robert Abercromby of Airthrey, GCB 75th Regiment of Foot - (1809)
• 1827–1832: Lt-Gen. James Dunlop of Dunlop
• 1832–1841: Lt-Gen. Sir Joseph Fuller, GCH
• 1841–1845: Gen. Sir William Hutchinson, KCH
• 1845–1858: Gen. Sackville Hamilton Berkeley
• 1858–1870: Gen. St. John Augustus Clerke, KH 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot - (1862)
• 1870–1872: Gen. Sir David Russell, KCB
• 1872–1881: Gen. John Thomas Hill

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Timeline

8.1.4.2.2. - 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot,

Active 1794-1881

1794 - Raised by the Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon as 100th Regiment of Foot (Gordon Highlanders).

1796 - 1806 - The Duke's son, General George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon General George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon] styled Marquess of Huntly took command of the 92nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot

1798 - Re-designated 92nd Regiment of Foot (or Gordon Highlanders).

1861 - Re-designated 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot 8.1.4.2.2. above

ca1861 - Badge introduced (right) as 92nd (Gordon Highlanders).

1881 - amalgamated with 75th Foot (Stirlingshire) becoming The Gordon Highlanders

Battle honours

• Egmont-Op-Zee
• French Revolutionary Wars: Mandora, Egypt
• Peninsular War: Corunna, Fuentes D'Onor, Almaraz, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nive, Orthes, Peninsula
• Napoleonic Wars: Waterloo
• Second Anglo-Afghan War: Charasiab, Kabul 1879, Kandahar 1880, Afghanistan 1878–80

Colonels of the Regiment

100th (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot

• 1796–1806: Gen. George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon, GCB (Marquess of Huntly)

92nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot - (1798)

• 1806–1820: Gen. John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun, GCB

92nd Regiment of Foot - (1809)

• 1820–1823: Lt-Gen. Sir John Hope, GCH
• 1823–1831: Gen. Hon. Sir Alexander Duff, GCH
• 1831–1842: Gen. Sir John Hamilton Dalrymple, Bt, 8th Earl of Stair, KT
• 1842–1855: Lt-Gen. Sir William Macbean, KCB
• 1855–1866: Gen. Sir John Macdonald, KCB

92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot - (1861)

• 1866–1869: F.M. Sir Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn, GCB, GCSI
• 1869–1871: Lt-Gen. John Campbell
• 1871–1880: Gen. George Staunton, CB
• 1880–1881: Gen. Mark Kerr Atherley

Battle honours (The Gordon Highlanders)

• Early Wars: Mysore, South Africa 1835, Tel-El-Kebir, Egypt 1882 '84, Nile 1884–5, Chitral, Tirah, Defence of Ladysmith, Paardeberg, South Africa, 1899–1902
• The Great War: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Neuve Chapelle, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Hooge 1915, Loos, Somme 1916, 18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Bullecourt, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcapelle. Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Béthune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917–18
• The Second World War: Withdrawal to Escaut, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Odon, La Vie Crossing, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Rhineland, Reichswald, Cleve, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940, '44–45, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Mareth, Medjez Plain, North Africa 1942–43, Landing in Sicily, Sferro, Sicily 1943, Anzio, Rome, Italy 1944–45

Victoria Cross recipients

75th (Highland) Regiment of Foot

• Lieutenant Richard Wadeson (Indian Mutiny, 17 July 1857)
• Private Patrick Green (Indian Mutiny, 11 Sept 1857)
• Colour Sergeant Cornelius Coughlan (Indian Mutiny, 8 June 1857)

92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot

• Field Marshall George Stewart (Stuart) White VC (Afghanistan, 1879)
• Lieut.-Col.William Henry Dick-Cunyngham (Afghanistan, 1879) Gordon Highlanders
• Edward Lawson (India, 1897)
• George Findlater (India, 1897)
• Major Matthew Fontaine Meiklejohn VC (Second Boer War, 1899) (1870-1913)
• William Robertson (Second Boer War, 1899)
• Sir Ernest Beachcroft Beckwith Towse VC KCVO CBE (Second Boer War, 1900) (1864-1948)
• John Mackay (Second Boer War, 1900)
• William Gordon (Second Boer War, 1900)
• David Younger (Second Boer War, 1900)
• William Kenny VC (France, 1914) (1880-1936)
• Captain James Anson Otho Brooke VC. (France, 1914) (1884-1914)
• WIKI George Imlach McIntosh VC (France, 1917) (1897-1968)
• WIKI Major Allan Ebenezer Ker (France, 1918) (1883-1958)
• George Mitchell (Italy, 1944)
• Thomas Beach – (attached to the 55th Regiment of Foot)

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Sources, References and Further Reading

• Brereton, J M A Guide to the regiments and Corps of the British Army on the Regular Establishment (Bodley Head) 1985
• Griffin, P D Encyclopedia of Modern British Army Regiments (Sutton Publishers) 2006
• Lumley, Goff Amalgamations in the British Army 1660-2008 (Partizan Press 2009)

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