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92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot

The 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment, raised in 1794. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot to form the Gordon Highlanders in 1881.

For other units with the same regimental number, see 92nd Regiment of Foot (disambiguation).

92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot

1794–1881

 Kingdom of Great Britain (1794–1800)
United Kingdom (1801–1881)

 British Army

Highland Infantry Regiment

One battalion (two battalions 1803–1814)

Castlehill Barracks, Aberdeen

The Gay Gordons[1]

Napoleonic Wars
Crimean War
Indian Rebellion
Battle of Majuba Hill

Egmont-Op-Zee

French Revolutionary Wars: , Egypt

Mandora

Peninsular War: , Fuentes D'Onor, Almaraz, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nive, Orthes, Peninsula

Corunna

Napoleonic Wars:

Waterloo

Second Anglo-Afghan War: , Kabul 1879, Kandahar 1880, Afghanistan 1878–80

Charasiah

Battle honours won by the regiment were:[2]

George Stuart White

William Dick-Cunyngham

– (attached to the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot)

Thomas Beach

1796–1806: Gen. , GCB (Marquess of Huntly)

George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon

Colonels of the Regiment were:[2]

Cannon, Richard (1851). . Historical records of the British Army. Parker, Furnivall and Parker.

Historical record of the Ninety-second Regiment, originally termed "the Gordon Highlanders," and numbered the Hundredth Regiment: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1794, and of its subsequent services to 1850

Gardyne, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Greenhill (1901). . Edinburgh: D. Douglas.

The Life of a Regiment: the History of the Gordon Highlanders

Nofi, Albert (1993). . Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0938289982.

The Waterloo Campaign: June 1815

Summerville, Christopher (2007). . Pearson Education. ISBN 978-0-582-78405-5.

Who Was Who at Waterloo: A Biography of the Battle

History of the Gordon Highlanders