42nd Regiment of Foot
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The 42nd Regiment of Foot was a Scottish infantry regiment in the British Army also known as the Black Watch. Originally titled Crawford's Highlanders or the Highland Regiment and numbered 43rd in the
Cap badge of the 42nd Regiment of Foot
c. 1742 engraving of a regimental private
The regiment at the Battle of Fontenoy
c. 1758 painting of the regiment being reviewed on the Glasgow Green
The 73rd Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1780. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 42nd Regiment of Foot to form the Black Watch in 1881.
42nd Regiment of Foot
…honoured with the name Royal Highland Regiment in 1758. Its informal name Black Watch became official in 1861. In 1881, the regiment was amalgamated with 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot under the Childers Reforms into The Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch), being officially redesignated The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment…
Regimental colours
Sir George Osborn, the regiment's first colonel
The regimental uniform in 1851
The regiment onboard HMS Birkenhead on 28 February 1852