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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). Although the 'Gordon Highlanders' had existed as the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot since 1794, the actual 'Gordon Highlanders Regiment' was formed in 1881 by amalgamation of the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot and 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot.

Regimental Headquarters & Regimental Depot at

Castlehill Barracks

1st Battalion (Regular, former )

75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot

2nd Battalion (Regular, former )

92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot

3rd (Royal Aberdeenshire Highland Militia) Battalion (Militia) based at the in Aberdeen

King Street Barracks

1st Volunteer Battalion (Volunteers, former 1st Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, became 1st VB in 1884), later became 4th (City of Aberdeen) Btn

2nd Volunteer Battalion (Volunteers, former 2nd Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, became 2nd VB in 1884), later became 5th (Buchan and Formartin) Btn

3rd (The Buchan) Volunteer Battalion (Volunteers, former 3rd Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteer Corps)

4th Volunteer Battalion (Volunteers, former 4th Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteer Corps), later became 6th (The Banff and Donside) Btn

5th (Deeside Highland) Volunteer Battalion (Volunteers, former 1st (Deeside Highland) Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteer Corps), later became 7th (Deeside Highland) Btn

(India, 1897)[31]

Edward Lawson

(India, 1897)[7]

George Findlater

(Second Boer War, 1899)[32]

Matthew Meiklejohn

(Second Boer War, 1899)[32]

William Robertson

(Second Boer War, 1900)[33]

Ernest Towse

(Second Boer War, 1900)[34]

John Mackay

(Second Boer War, 1900)[35]

William Gordon

(Second Boer War, 1900)[36]

David Younger

(France, 1914)[37]

William Kenny

(France, 1914)[38]

James Brooke

(France, 1917)[39]

George McIntosh

(France, 1918)[40]

Allan Ker

(Italy, 1944)[41]

George Mitchell

Honours[edit]

Battle honours[edit]

Battle honours awarded to the regiment included:[12]

1898–:F.M.

King Edward VII

1937–: F.M. , KG, KT, KP, GCB, GCMG, GCVO

Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester

1977–: , KG, KT, GCB, AK, QSO, ADC

Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay

Colonels in Chief were as follows:[12]

1881–1890: (1st Battalion): Gen. (ex 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot)

John Thomas Hill

1881–1884 (2nd Battalion): Gen. (ex 92nd Gordon Highlanders)

Mark Kerr Atherley

1884–1895 (2nd Battalion only to 1890): Gen. Sir , KCB

John Alexander Ewart

1895–1897: Lt-Gen. Charles Edward Parke Gordon, CB

1897–1912: F.M. Sir , VC, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO

George Stuart White

1912–1914: Gen. Sir , GCB

Charles Whittingham Horsley Douglas

1914–1939: Gen. Sir , GCB, GCMG, DSO, TD

Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton

1939–1948: Maj-Gen. , Bt, CB, CMG, DSO

Sir James Lauderdale Gilbert Burnett

1948–1958: Col. William James Graham, MC

1958–1965: Brig. , CVO, CBE, DSO

James Roderick Sinclair, 19th Earl of Caithness

1965 (May–September) vacant

1965–1978: Lt-Gen. Sir , KBE, CB, CVO, DSO

George C. Gordon Lennox

1978–1986: Lt-Gen. , KCB, CBE

Sir John Richard Alexander Macmillan

1986–1994: Lt-Gen. , KCB, CBE

Sir Peter Walter Graham

1994: amalgamated with to form The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)

Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons)

Colonels of the regiment were:[12]

  – 5th Battalion, The Victorian Scottish Regiment

Australia

 The Cape Town Highlanders

South Africa

Alliances were:[12]

J.B.M. Frederick, Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660-1978, Volume I, 1984: Microform Academic Publishers, , United Kingdom. ISBN 1-85117-007-3.

Wakefield

George Forty, British Army Handbook 1939-1945. Sutton Publishing (1992),  0-7509-1403-3.

ISBN

Trevor Royle, The Gordon Highlanders, A Concise History. Mainstream Publishing Company (2007).  9781845962708.

ISBN

Media related to Gordon Highlanders at Wikimedia Commons

Gordon Highlanders Museum

History of the Regiment

on YouTube

"Cock o' the North"

Meeting place for Gordon Highlanders

Gordon Highlanders Online

(archive film from the National Library of Scotland: SCOTTISH SCREEN ARCHIVE)

GORDON HIGHLANDERS (1899)