Black Watch
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The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. The regiment was created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881, when the 42nd R
1892 painting of a regimental sentry
Illustration of the regiment after the Battle of Magersfontein
Regimental soldiers firing rifle grenades, 1917
10th (Service) Battalion, Black Watch entrenching in the hills between the villages of Aivatli and Laina above the port of Salonika, Greece, December 1915
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
Black Watch
…Scotland (3 SCOTS) is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. The regiment was created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881, when the 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch) was amalgamated with the 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot. It was known as The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) from 1881 to 1931 and The Black Watch…
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