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Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

January 01, 1970

The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was a rifle regiment of the British Army, the only regiment of rifles amongst the Scottish regiments of infantry. It was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 26th Cameronian Regiment and the 90th Perthshire Light Infantry. In 1968, when reductions were required, the regiment chose to be disbanded rather than amalgamated with another regiment, one of only two infantry regiments in the British Army to do so, with the other being the York and Lancaster Regiment. It can trace its roots to that of the Cameronians, later the 26th of Foot, who were raised in 1689. The 1881 amalgamation coincided with the Cameronian's selection to become the new Scottish Rifles.

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Cap Badge of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Active1 July 1881 – 14 May 1968
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeRifles
Size2 Regular battalions
2 Militia battalions
2 – 4 Territorial and Volunteer battalions
Up to 12 hostilities-only battalions
Part ofLowland Brigade
Garrison/HQHamilton Barracks, Hamilton (1881–1947)
Winston Barracks, Lanark (1947–1964)
Glencorse Barracks, Edinburgh (1964–1968)[1]
Nickname(s)(from the 1960s) The Poison Dwarfs. Not a popular nickname as it was derogatory.
MarchQuick – Within a mile of Edinburgh Toon
Slow – The Garb of Old Gaul
Commanders
Colonel in ChiefHM King Gustaf VI Adolf
Colonel of
the Regiment		Major General Henry Templar Alexander, CB CBE DSO
Insignia
Tartan
Memorial on Spion Kop
1st Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) on the Western Front, 1914/15
The Cameronians War Memorial in Kelvingrove Park
Cameronians Memorial at Douglas, South Lanarkshire

History edit

Formation edit

The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 26th Cameronian Regiment and the 90th Perthshire Light Infantry.[2] After the amalgamation, the 1st Battalion preferred to be known as "The Cameronians" while the 2nd preferred to be known as "The Scottish Rifles". The 2nd Battalion saw action at the Battle of Spion Kop in January 1900 during the Second Boer War.[3]

Two Militia battalions were formed from the former 2nd Royal Lanark Militia. The 3rd battalion was embodied in May 1900 for service during the Second Boer War. More than 600 men embarked for South Africa in April 1901, and returned in June 1902, following the end of hostilities.[4] The 4th battalion had been embodied already in December 1899, also for service in the same war, and 600 officers and men embarked for South Africa in late February 1900.[5]

In 1908, the Volunteers and Militia were reorganised nationally, with the former becoming the Territorial Force and the latter the Special Reserve;[6] the regiment now had two Reserve and four Territorial battalions.[7][2]

First World War edit

See also: List of battalions of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) § First World War

Regular Army edit

The 1st Battalion landed at Le Havre as part of the 19th Brigade, which was an independent command at that time, in August 1914 for service on the Western Front.[8] The battalion famously refused to play football or otherwise fraternise with the enemy on Christmas Day 1914.[9] The 2nd Battalion landed in France as part of the 23rd Brigade in the 8th Division in November 1914 for service on the Western Front.[8]

Territorial Force edit

The 1/5th Battalion was one of the first Territorial Force units selected to reinforce the Regulars of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France. It landed at Le Havre on 5 November 1914, joining 19th Brigade on 19 November. At this time 19th Bde also included 1st Bn Cameronians[a] 19th Brigade was attached to the 6th Division; later it moved to 33rd Division, a 'Kitchener's Army' formation.[8] The 1/6th Battalion landed at Le Havre as part of the 23rd Brigade in the 8th Division in March 1915 for service on the Western Front. It later joined 33rd Division and in 1916 it merged with the 1/5th to form 5th/6th Bn.[8] The 1/7th Battalion and the 1/8th Battalion landed in Gallipoli as part of the 156th Brigade in the 52nd (Lowland) Division in June 1915; after evacuation from Gallipoli in January 1916 the battalions moved to Egypt and served in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. They sailed to Marseille in April 1918 and served on the Western Front until the end of the war.[11][12][13][8][14][10][15]

New Armies edit

The 9th (Service) Battalion landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer as part of the 27th Brigade in the 9th (Scottish) Division in May 1915 for service on the Western Front.[8] The 10th (Service) Battalion landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer as part of the 46th Brigade in the 15th (Scottish) Division in July 1915 for service on the Western Front.[8] The 11th (Service) Battalion landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer as part of the 77th Brigade in the 26th Division in September 1915 for service on the Western Front but sailed for Salonika in November 1915.[8]

Inter-war edit

The 1st Battalion was deployed to Ireland in 1919 during the Irish War of Independence and then went to India in 1931 while the 2nd Battalion was deployed to Mesopotamia in 1919 and then went to India in 1922.[16]

Second World War edit

See also: List of battalions of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) § Second World War

The 1st Battalion, which had been in India at the start of the war and was initially commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Galloway, was deployed to Burma as part of the 1st Burma Brigade in the 39th Indian Division in 1942 and saw action in the Burma Campaign.[17]

 
A Bren gun team from the 2nd Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 5th Division, take up a position high up in the mountains, Italy, 21 November 1943.

The 2nd Battalion, initially commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Graham, was deployed to France as part of the 13th Infantry Brigade in the 5th Division within the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in September 1939 and, after taking part in the Dunkirk evacuation in June 1940, saw action in the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and the Allied invasion of Italy in September 1943 and, after fighting in the Italian Campaign, serving in both the Moro River and Anzio campaigns until July 1944, took part in the North West Europe Campaign in early 1945, ending in May.[18]

 
Infantrymen of the 6th Battalion, Cameronians passing Sherman tanks near Havert in Germany, 18 January 1945.

The 6th and 7th Battalions, both Territorial Army battalions, were deployed to France as part of the 156th Infantry Brigade in the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division to provide cover for the withdrawal of troops of the British Expeditionary Force; after the Normandy landings in June 1944, the battalion took part in the North West Europe Campaign in late 1944 and in 1945.[19][20]

The 9th Battalion took part in the Normandy landings as part of the 46th (Highland) Infantry Brigade in the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division in June 1944 and saw action in the North West Europe Campaign in late 1944 (including action at the Battle of Broekhuizen) [21] and in 1945.[22]

Post-war edit

In 1948, along with every other infantry regiment of the British Army, the Cameronians regiment was reduced to a single regular battalion. The 1st Battalion which had been repeatedly decimated in the Burma campaign was placed in suspended animation and the 2nd Battalion was renamed the 1st Battalion while at Gibraltar. It was deployed to Malaya in 1950 during the Malayan Emergency.[23] Under the reforms of the army in the 1967 Defence White Paper, which saw several regiments amalgamated, the Cameronians chose to disband rather than amalgamate with another in the Lowland Brigade.

In the 1960s the unruly behaviour of some of the Cameronians who were stationed in Minden as part of the BAOR caused a local to describe the smaller Scottish soldiers as "poison dwarfs".[24][25]

The 1st Battalion, The Cameronians was disbanded on 14 May 1968 at Douglas Castle, near Douglas, South Lanarkshire in the presence of the Duke of Hamilton, the Earl of Angus. Its recruiting area in Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway was taken over by the King's Own Scottish Borderers and the Regimental Headquarters finally closed down in 1987.[2]

Regimental museum edit

The Cameronians Museum is located within the Low Parks Museum, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire.[26]

Traditions edit

Every new member of the regiment was issued a Bible, as a nod to Richard Cameron, after whom the original 26th Foot was named and the regiment mounted an armed guard at the doors of the Kirk during religious services.[27] Soldiers wore a rifle green doublet with Douglas tartan trews as part of their full dress and No.1 dress uniforms.[28] The regiment was one of only two in Britain to retain the shako as its full-dress headwear after 1878.[29]

Battle honours edit

The regiment's battle honours included:[2]

  • Early wars: Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, South Africa 1846–72, South Africa 1877-8-92, Relief of Ladysmith, 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, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Ypres 1917 '18, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, St Quentin, Rosières, Avre, Lys, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenberg Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, St Quentin Canal, Cambrai 1918, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–18, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915–18, Gallipoli 1915–16, Rumani, Egypt 1916–17, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jaffa, Palestine 1917-18
  • Second World War: Ypres-Comines Canal, Odon, Cheux, Caen, Mont Pincon, Estry, Nederrijn, Best, Scheldt, South Beveland, Walcheren Causeway, Asten, Roer, Rhineland, Reichswald, Moyland, Rhine, Dreierwalde, Bremen, Artlenberg, North-West Europe 1940, '44-45, Landing in Sicily, Simeto Bridgehead, Sicily 1943, Garigliano Crossing, Anzio, Advance to Tiber, Italy 1943–44, Pegu 1942, Paungde, Yenagyaung 1942, Chindits 1944, Burma 1942 '44

Colonel-in-Chief edit

The colonel-in-chief was as follows:

Regimental Colonels edit

Regimental colonels were:[2]

Affiliations edit

Affiliations included:

Notable former members of the regiment edit

Also His Majesty Sultan Qaboos, the former ruler of the Sultantate of Oman, served with the Cameronians as a junior officer.[35][36]

Memorials edit

Face 5 of the British memorial on Spion Kop lists the names of the soldiers from the Cameronians who died at the Battle of Spion Kop during the Second Boer War.[37] The Cameronians War Memorial in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow by Philip Lindsey Clark, unveiled on 9 August 1924, depicts men of the regiment manning a Lewis gun.[38] A monument commemorating both the founding of the regiment by the Earl of Angus in 1689 and its disbanding in 1968 can be found at Douglas, South Lanarkshire.[39] Also within the village is a statue of the Earl of Angus to commemorate the bicentenary of the raising of the regiment.[40]

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ The 33rd Division's historian[10] usually refers to 1st Bn as 'Cameronians' and 5th Bn as 'Scottish Rifles', which may reflect the battalions' preferences as to titles; the Official Histories use Scottish Rifles for both.

References edit

  1. ^ . Lanard Life. Archived from the original on 10 December 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f . Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 30 December 2005. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  3. ^ "Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)". Anglo-Boer War. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  4. ^ "The Army in South Africa - The return of the Troops". The Times. No. 36809. London. 2 July 1902. p. 11.
  5. ^ "The War - Embarcation of Troops". The Times. No. 36071. London. 21 February 1900. p. 10.
  6. ^ "Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 31 March 1908. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  7. ^ These were the 3rd and 4th Battalions (Special Reserve), with the 5th Battalion at West Princes Street in Glasgow, the 6th Battalion at Muirhall in Hamilton (since demolished), the 7th Battalion at Victoria Road in Glasgow and the 8th Battalion at Cathedral Street in Glasgow (since demolished) (all Territorial Force)
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h "Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)". The Long, Long Trail. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  9. ^ "Scottish Rifles - the soldiers who refused to play ball at Christmas during First World War". The Telegraph. 22 December 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  10. ^ a b Seton-Hutchinson.
  11. ^ 6th Division, Becke, Pt 1.
  12. ^ 33rd Division, Becke, Pt 3b.
  13. ^ 52nd (Lowland) Division, Becke, Pt 2a.
  14. ^ Edmonds, 1914, Vol II, pp. 227, 459; Appendices 1 & 5.
  15. ^ Thompson.
  16. ^ . National Army Museum. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  17. ^ "1st Burma Division". Burma Star Association. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  18. ^ "2nd Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)". Wartime Memories Project. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  19. ^ "6th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)". Wartime Memories Project. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  20. ^ "7th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)". Wartime Memories Project. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  21. ^ Gaunt, John (2000), "The Battle of Broekhuizen", After the Battle, 107: 24–27
  22. ^ "9th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)". Wartime Memories Project. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  23. ^ "Malayan Emergency 1948-1960". Cameronians. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  24. ^ "Poison Dwarfs of British Army". Daily Mirror. 13 June 1962. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  25. ^ "The gallus and the gallant". The Herald. 8 March 1993. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  26. ^ "The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Collection - Low Parks Museum, Hamilton, Lanarkshire". Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  27. ^ "Lanarkshire connections". Cameronians. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  28. ^ "Doublet". Cameronians. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  29. ^ Army Dress Regulations 2011 (glossary)
  30. ^ "Invitation to Major-General Haugh". South Lanarkshire Museum. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  31. ^ "World War 1 Photographs". History Links Museum. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  32. ^ "No. 37598". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1946. p. 2768.
  33. ^ "Brigadier-General James Graham Chaplin". Lafayette negative archive. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  34. ^ "WW2 hero dog celebrated with statue in Strathaven". BBC News. 7 November 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  35. ^ Allen, p. 28–29, 34
  36. ^ Telegraph Obituaries (11 January 2020). . The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 13 January 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  37. ^ "The British War Memorial and graveyard at the Battle of Spion Kop". Getty images. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  38. ^ "Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) War Memorial". Scottish Sculpture. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  39. ^ "Cameronians's Regimental Memorial". Visit Scotland. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  40. ^ . Douglas Community Council. Archived from the original on 12 September 2006. Retrieved 12 June 2016.

Sources edit

  • Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 1: The Regular British Divisions, London: HM Stationery Office, 1934/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, ISBN 1-847347-38-X.
  • Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2a: The Territorial Force Mounted Divisions and the 1st-Line Territorial Force Divisions (42–56), London: HM Stationery Office, 1935/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, ISBN 1-847347-39-8.
  • Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 3b: New Army Divisions (30–41) and 63rd (R.N.) Division, London: HM Stationery Office, 1939/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, ISBN 1-847347-41-X.
  • Brig-Gen Sir James E. Edmonds, History of the Great War: Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1914, Vol II, London: Macmillan, 1925/Imperial War Museum & Battery Press, 1995, ISBN 1-870423-55-0.
  • Allen, Calvin H.; Rigsbee, W. Lynn (1 January 2000). Oman Under Qaboos: From Coup to Constitution, 1970–1996. Psychology Press. ISBN 9780714650012.
  • Lt-Col Graham Seton-Hutchinson, The Thirty-Third Division in France and Flanders, 1915–1919, London: Waterlow & Sons 1921/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2004, ISBN 978-1-84342-995-1.
  • Lt-Col R.R. Thompson, The Fifty-Second (Lowland) Division 1914–1918, Glasgow: Maclehose, Jackson 1923/Uckfield: Naval & Military, 2004, ISBN 978-1-84342993-7.

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The Cameronians Scottish Rifles was a rifle regiment of the British Army the only regiment of rifles amongst the Scottish regiments of infantry It was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 26th Cameronian Regiment and the 90th Perthshire Light Infantry In 1968 when reductions were required the regiment chose to be disbanded rather than amalgamated with another regiment one of only two infantry regiments in the British Army to do so with the other being the York and Lancaster Regiment It can trace its roots to that of the Cameronians later the 26th of Foot who were raised in 1689 The 1881 amalgamation coincided with the Cameronian s selection to become the new Scottish Rifles Cameronians Scottish Rifles Cap Badge of the Cameronians Scottish Rifles Active1 July 1881 14 May 1968Country United KingdomBranch British ArmyTypeRiflesSize2 Regular battalions2 Militia battalions2 4 Territorial and Volunteer battalionsUp to 12 hostilities only battalionsPart ofLowland BrigadeGarrison HQHamilton Barracks Hamilton 1881 1947 Winston Barracks Lanark 1947 1964 Glencorse Barracks Edinburgh 1964 1968 1 Nickname s from the 1960s The Poison Dwarfs Not a popular nickname as it was derogatory MarchQuick Within a mile of Edinburgh ToonSlow The Garb of Old GaulCommandersColonel in ChiefHM King Gustaf VI AdolfColonel ofthe RegimentMajor General Henry Templar Alexander CB CBE DSOInsigniaTartan Memorial on Spion Kop 1st Battalion Cameronians Scottish Rifles on the Western Front 1914 15 The Cameronians War Memorial in Kelvingrove Park Cameronians Memorial at Douglas South Lanarkshire Contents 1 History 1 1 Formation 1 2 First World War 1 2 1 Regular Army 1 2 2 Territorial Force 1 2 3 New Armies 1 3 Inter war 1 4 Second World War 1 5 Post war 2 Regimental museum 3 Traditions 4 Battle honours 5 Colonel in Chief 6 Regimental Colonels 7 Affiliations 8 Notable former members of the regiment 9 Memorials 10 Footnotes 11 References 12 Sources 13 External linksHistory editFormation edit The Cameronians Scottish Rifles was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 26th Cameronian Regiment and the 90th Perthshire Light Infantry 2 After the amalgamation the 1st Battalion preferred to be known as The Cameronians while the 2nd preferred to be known as The Scottish Rifles The 2nd Battalion saw action at the Battle of Spion Kop in January 1900 during the Second Boer War 3 Two Militia battalions were formed from the former 2nd Royal Lanark Militia The 3rd battalion was embodied in May 1900 for service during the Second Boer War More than 600 men embarked for South Africa in April 1901 and returned in June 1902 following the end of hostilities 4 The 4th battalion had been embodied already in December 1899 also for service in the same war and 600 officers and men embarked for South Africa in late February 1900 5 In 1908 the Volunteers and Militia were reorganised nationally with the former becoming the Territorial Force and the latter the Special Reserve 6 the regiment now had two Reserve and four Territorial battalions 7 2 First World War edit See also List of battalions of the Cameronians Scottish Rifles First World War Regular Army edit The 1st Battalion landed at Le Havre as part of the 19th Brigade which was an independent command at that time in August 1914 for service on the Western Front 8 The battalion famously refused to play football or otherwise fraternise with the enemy on Christmas Day 1914 9 The 2nd Battalion landed in France as part of the 23rd Brigade in the 8th Division in November 1914 for service on the Western Front 8 Territorial Force edit The 1 5th Battalion was one of the first Territorial Force units selected to reinforce the Regulars of the British Expeditionary Force BEF in France It landed at Le Havre on 5 November 1914 joining 19th Brigade on 19 November At this time 19th Bde also included 1st Bn Cameronians a 19th Brigade was attached to the 6th Division later it moved to 33rd Division a Kitchener s Army formation 8 The 1 6th Battalion landed at Le Havre as part of the 23rd Brigade in the 8th Division in March 1915 for service on the Western Front It later joined 33rd Division and in 1916 it merged with the 1 5th to form 5th 6th Bn 8 The 1 7th Battalion and the 1 8th Battalion landed in Gallipoli as part of the 156th Brigade in the 52nd Lowland Division in June 1915 after evacuation from Gallipoli in January 1916 the battalions moved to Egypt and served in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign They sailed to Marseille in April 1918 and served on the Western Front until the end of the war 11 12 13 8 14 10 15 New Armies edit The 9th Service Battalion landed at Boulogne sur Mer as part of the 27th Brigade in the 9th Scottish Division in May 1915 for service on the Western Front 8 The 10th Service Battalion landed at Boulogne sur Mer as part of the 46th Brigade in the 15th Scottish Division in July 1915 for service on the Western Front 8 The 11th Service Battalion landed at Boulogne sur Mer as part of the 77th Brigade in the 26th Division in September 1915 for service on the Western Front but sailed for Salonika in November 1915 8 Inter war edit The 1st Battalion was deployed to Ireland in 1919 during the Irish War of Independence and then went to India in 1931 while the 2nd Battalion was deployed to Mesopotamia in 1919 and then went to India in 1922 16 Second World War edit See also List of battalions of the Cameronians Scottish Rifles Second World War The 1st Battalion which had been in India at the start of the war and was initially commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Galloway was deployed to Burma as part of the 1st Burma Brigade in the 39th Indian Division in 1942 and saw action in the Burma Campaign 17 nbsp A Bren gun team from the 2nd Battalion Cameronians Scottish Rifles 5th Division take up a position high up in the mountains Italy 21 November 1943 The 2nd Battalion initially commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Graham was deployed to France as part of the 13th Infantry Brigade in the 5th Division within the British Expeditionary Force BEF in September 1939 and after taking part in the Dunkirk evacuation in June 1940 saw action in the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and the Allied invasion of Italy in September 1943 and after fighting in the Italian Campaign serving in both the Moro River and Anzio campaigns until July 1944 took part in the North West Europe Campaign in early 1945 ending in May 18 nbsp Infantrymen of the 6th Battalion Cameronians passing Sherman tanks near Havert in Germany 18 January 1945 The 6th and 7th Battalions both Territorial Army battalions were deployed to France as part of the 156th Infantry Brigade in the 52nd Lowland Infantry Division to provide cover for the withdrawal of troops of the British Expeditionary Force after the Normandy landings in June 1944 the battalion took part in the North West Europe Campaign in late 1944 and in 1945 19 20 The 9th Battalion took part in the Normandy landings as part of the 46th Highland Infantry Brigade in the 15th Scottish Infantry Division in June 1944 and saw action in the North West Europe Campaign in late 1944 including action at the Battle of Broekhuizen 21 and in 1945 22 Post war edit In 1948 along with every other infantry regiment of the British Army the Cameronians regiment was reduced to a single regular battalion The 1st Battalion which had been repeatedly decimated in the Burma campaign was placed in suspended animation and the 2nd Battalion was renamed the 1st Battalion while at Gibraltar It was deployed to Malaya in 1950 during the Malayan Emergency 23 Under the reforms of the army in the 1967 Defence White Paper which saw several regiments amalgamated the Cameronians chose to disband rather than amalgamate with another in the Lowland Brigade In the 1960s the unruly behaviour of some of the Cameronians who were stationed in Minden as part of the BAOR caused a local to describe the smaller Scottish soldiers as poison dwarfs 24 25 The 1st Battalion The Cameronians was disbanded on 14 May 1968 at Douglas Castle near Douglas South Lanarkshire in the presence of the Duke of Hamilton the Earl of Angus Its recruiting area in Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway was taken over by the King s Own Scottish Borderers and the Regimental Headquarters finally closed down in 1987 2 Regimental museum editThe Cameronians Museum is located within the Low Parks Museum Hamilton South Lanarkshire 26 Traditions editEvery new member of the regiment was issued a Bible as a nod to Richard Cameron after whom the original 26th Foot was named and the regiment mounted an armed guard at the doors of the Kirk during religious services 27 Soldiers wore a rifle green doublet with Douglas tartan trews as part of their full dress and No 1 dress uniforms 28 The regiment was one of only two in Britain to retain the shako as its full dress headwear after 1878 29 Battle honours editThe regiment s battle honours included 2 Early wars Blenheim Ramillies Oudenarde Malplaquet South Africa 1846 72 South Africa 1877 8 92 Relief of Ladysmith South Africa 1899 1902 The Great War Mons Le Cateau Retreat from Mons Marne 1914 18 Aisne 1914 La Bassee 1914 Messines 1914 Armentieres 1914 Neuve Chapelle Aubers Loos Somme 1916 18 Albert 1916 Bazentin Pozieres Flers Courcelette Le Transloy Ancre Heights Arras 1917 18 Scarpe 1917 18 Arleux Ypres 1917 18 Pilckem Langemarck 1917 Menin Road Polygon Wood Passchendaele St Quentin Rosieres Avre Lys Hazebrouck Bailleul Kemmel Scherpenberg Soissonnais Ourcq Drocourt Queant Hindenberg Line Epehy Canal du Nord St Quentin Canal Cambrai 1918 Courtrai Selle Sambre France and Flanders 1914 18 Doiran 1917 18 Macedonia 1915 18 Gallipoli 1915 16 Rumani Egypt 1916 17 Gaza El Mughar Nebi Samwil Jaffa Palestine 1917 18 Second World War Ypres Comines Canal Odon Cheux Caen Mont Pincon Estry Nederrijn Best Scheldt South Beveland Walcheren Causeway Asten Roer Rhineland Reichswald Moyland Rhine Dreierwalde Bremen Artlenberg North West Europe 1940 44 45 Landing in Sicily Simeto Bridgehead Sicily 1943 Garigliano Crossing Anzio Advance to Tiber Italy 1943 44 Pegu 1942 Paungde Yenagyaung 1942 Chindits 1944 Burma 1942 44Colonel in Chief editThe colonel in chief was as follows 1956 1968 King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden 2 Regimental Colonels editRegimental colonels were 2 1881 1899 1st Battalion Gen George Henry Mackinnon CB ex 26th Foot 1881 1882 2nd Battalion Gen William Hassall Eden ex 90th Foot 1882 1889 2nd Battalion Gen John Alfred Street 1899 1910 Lt Gen Sir James Clerk Rattray KCB 1910 1918 Maj Gen Joseph Henry Laye CB CVO 1918 1927 Maj Gen Sir Philip Rynd Robertson KCB CMG 1927 1946 Maj Gen Sir Eric Stanley Girdwood KBE CB CMG 1946 1951 Gen Sir Thomas Sheridan Riddell Webster GCB DSO 1951 1954 Gen Sir Richard Nugent O Connor GCB DSO MC 1954 1958 Maj Gen Douglas Alexander Henry Graham CB CBE DSO MC 1958 1964 Gen Sir Horatius Murray GCB KBE DSO 1964 1969 Lt Gen Sir Richard George Collingwood KBE CB DSO 1968 Regular unit disbanded 1969 1970 Maj Gen Henry Templer Alexander CB CBE DSO 1970 1974 Maj Gen Henry Templer Alexander CB CBE DSO Representative Colonel 1974 1987 Brig David Balfour Riddell Webster OBE Representative Colonel Affiliations editAffiliations included nbsp Canada The Perth Regiment 1965 Canada nbsp Australia 26th Battalion The Logan and Albert Regiment 1928 1951 Australia nbsp New Zealand The Otago and Southland Regiment 1948 1968 New Zealand nbsp South Africa The Witwatersrand Rifles 1937 1961 South Africa nbsp Ghana 2nd Battalion Ghana Regiment Ghana nbsp United Kingdom 7th Duke of Edinburgh s Own Gurkha Rifles 1951 1968 United KingdomNotable former members of the regiment editSee also Category Cameronians officers and Category Cameronians soldiers Brigadier Cyril Nelson Barclay General Sir Roy Bucher General Sir Horatius Murray General Richard O Connor General Sir Thomas Riddell Webster Lieutenant General Sir George Collingwood Lieutenant General Sir John Fullerton Evetts Lieutenant General Sir Alexander Galloway Major General Henry Templer Alexander Major General George Carter Campbell Major General John Dutton Frost Major General Douglas Graham Major General James Haugh 30 Major General Robin Money 31 Major General Sir Philip Rynd Robertson Major General Eric Sixsmith 32 Brigadier General Graham Chaplin 33 Rifleman Khan awarded the Dickin Medal 34 Also His Majesty Sultan Qaboos the former ruler of the Sultantate of Oman served with the Cameronians as a junior officer 35 36 Memorials editFace 5 of the British memorial on Spion Kop lists the names of the soldiers from the Cameronians who died at the Battle of Spion Kop during the Second Boer War 37 The Cameronians War Memorial in Kelvingrove Park Glasgow by Philip Lindsey Clark unveiled on 9 August 1924 depicts men of the regiment manning a Lewis gun 38 A monument commemorating both the founding of the regiment by the Earl of Angus in 1689 and its disbanding in 1968 can be found at Douglas South Lanarkshire 39 Also within the village is a statue of the Earl of Angus to commemorate the bicentenary of the raising of the regiment 40 Footnotes edit The 33rd Division s historian 10 usually refers to 1st Bn as Cameronians and 5th Bn as Scottish Rifles which may reflect the battalions preferences as to titles the Official Histories use Scottish Rifles for both References edit 1939 Winston barracks Lanark constructed It was later to be the base for the Scottish Rifles Cameronians Lanard Life Archived from the original on 10 December 2015 Retrieved 9 December 2015 a b c d e f The Cameronians Scottish Rifles Regiments org Archived from the original on 30 December 2005 Retrieved 11 June 2016 Cameronians Scottish Rifles Anglo Boer War Retrieved 11 June 2016 The Army in South Africa The return of the Troops The Times No 36809 London 2 July 1902 p 11 The War Embarcation of Troops The Times No 36071 London 21 February 1900 p 10 Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 Parliamentary Debates Hansard 31 March 1908 Retrieved 20 June 2017 These were the 3rd and 4th Battalions Special Reserve with the 5th Battalion at West Princes Street in Glasgow the 6th Battalion at Muirhall in Hamilton since demolished the 7th Battalion at Victoria Road in Glasgow and the 8th Battalion at Cathedral Street in Glasgow since demolished all Territorial Force a b c d e f g h Cameronians Scottish Rifles The Long Long Trail Retrieved 12 June 2016 Scottish Rifles the soldiers who refused to play ball at Christmas during First World War The Telegraph 22 December 2013 Retrieved 11 June 2016 a b Seton Hutchinson 6th Division Becke Pt 1 33rd Division Becke Pt 3b 52nd Lowland Division Becke Pt 2a Edmonds 1914 Vol II pp 227 459 Appendices 1 amp 5 Thompson Cameronians Scottish Rifles National Army Museum Archived from the original on 24 June 2016 Retrieved 11 June 2016 1st Burma Division Burma Star Association Retrieved 11 June 2016 2nd Battalion Cameronians Scottish Rifles Wartime Memories Project Retrieved 11 June 2016 6th Battalion Cameronians Scottish Rifles Wartime Memories Project Retrieved 11 June 2016 7th Battalion Cameronians Scottish Rifles Wartime Memories Project Retrieved 11 June 2016 Gaunt John 2000 The Battle of Broekhuizen After the Battle 107 24 27 9th Battalion Cameronians Scottish Rifles Wartime Memories Project Retrieved 11 June 2016 Malayan Emergency 1948 1960 Cameronians Retrieved 12 June 2016 Poison Dwarfs of British Army Daily Mirror 13 June 1962 Retrieved 15 March 2021 The gallus and the gallant The Herald 8 March 1993 Retrieved 15 March 2021 The Cameronians Scottish Rifles Collection Low Parks Museum Hamilton Lanarkshire Retrieved 12 June 2016 Lanarkshire connections Cameronians Retrieved 12 June 2016 Doublet Cameronians Retrieved 11 June 2016 Army Dress Regulations 2011 glossary Invitation to Major General Haugh South Lanarkshire Museum Retrieved 2 August 2016 World War 1 Photographs History Links Museum Retrieved 2 August 2016 No 37598 The London Gazette Supplement 13 June 1946 p 2768 Brigadier General James Graham Chaplin Lafayette negative archive Retrieved 8 July 2018 WW2 hero dog celebrated with statue in Strathaven BBC News 7 November 2021 Retrieved 8 November 2021 Allen p 28 29 34 Telegraph Obituaries 11 January 2020 Sultan Qaboos bin Said long serving ruler of Oman and ally of the West obituary The Daily Telegraph London Archived from the original on 13 January 2020 Retrieved 13 January 2020 The British War Memorial and graveyard at the Battle of Spion Kop Getty images Retrieved 12 June 2016 Cameronians Scottish Rifles War Memorial Scottish Sculpture Retrieved 12 June 2016 Cameronians s Regimental Memorial Visit Scotland Retrieved 12 June 2016 Cameronian Scottish Rifles 1689 1968 Presentation to Douglas Heritage Museum June 2006 Douglas Community Council Archived from the original on 12 September 2006 Retrieved 12 June 2016 Sources editMaj A F Becke History of the 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