Seaforth Highlanders
The Seaforth Highlanders were a regiment in the British Army .
The regiment comes from the central Scottish highlands around Inverness and was created in 1881 by merging the 72nd Highlanders (Duke of Albany's Own) and the 78th Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs). It was named after the inlet Loch Seaforth on the Hebridean island of Lewis and Harris . The regiment's kilt consisted of the colors of the Mackenzie clan (black-rimmed green and blue squares, covered with a large red and small white meshwork), their regimental march was Cabar Feigh (in German the stag's antlers or symbolically the spearhead ) and their cap emblem was a twelve-ender stag with the inscription CUIDICH'N RIGH ( Help the King ).
The Seaforth Highlanders took u. a. participated in the Anglo-Egyptian War , the suppression of the Mahdi uprising in Sudan , the Second Boer War and the First and Second World Wars . In doing so, they won numerous Battle Honors (honorable mentions of battles in which it took part).
In 1961, the Seaforth Highlanders regiment was merged with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders to form the Queen's Own Highlanders regiment . In 1994 this regiment was then combined with the Gordon Highlanders to form the regiment The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) . Since May 2006 all Scottish regiments have been combined to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland ; The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) now form the 4th battalion of this regiment, which continues the traditions of the Seaforth Highlanders and the other Scottish Highland regiments.
Battle Honors
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The regiment had various battle honors , some of which were listed on the regimental flag. It also carried on the traditions of its predecessor units.
Battle Honors (English terms):
(in addition to those of the previous units)
Those that were listed on the regimental flag are in bold.
- Tel El Kebir, Egypt 1882 , Chitral Expedition 1895, Atbara , Khartoum , Paardeberg , South Africa 1899 - 1902
- First World War : Le Cateau , Retreat from Mons , Marne 1914 , 18 , Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Armentières 1914, Festubert 1914, 15, Givenchy 1914, Neuve-Chapelle, Ypres 1915 , 17 , 18 , St. Julien, Frezenburg, Bellewarde, Loos , Somme , Albert, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers Courcelette, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras , Vimy 1917 , Scarpe, Arleux, Pilckem Ridge , Menin Road , Polygon Wood , Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele , Cambrai , St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918 , Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel , Béthune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Drocourt-Queant, Hindenburg Line , Courtrai, Selle, Valenciennes , France and Flanders , Macedonia, Meggido , Shoran, Palestine 1918 , Tigris 1916 , Kut El Amara 1917 , Baghdad , Mesopotamia
- Second World War : North West Europe 1940 , 44-45 - Ypres - Comines Canal, Somme 1940 , Withdrawal to Seine , St Valéry-en-Caux , Odon , Caen , Troarn, Mont Pincon , Falaise , Falaise Road, Dives Crossing, La Vire Crossing, Lisieux, Nederrijin, Best, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Meijel, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhine-Land , Reichswald , Goch, Moyland, Rhine, Uelzen, Arthenberg. North Africa - El Alamein , Advance to Tripoli, Mareth , Wadi Zigzua, Akarit , Djebel Roumana, Italy 1943-44 - Landing in Sicily , Augusta, Francofonte, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943 , Garigliano Crossing, Anzio , Madagascar , Middle East 1942 Imphal , Shenam Pass, Lithuania, Tengnoupoul, Burma 1942-44
