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Military art prints and regimental
military uniform prints showing the Argyll and Sutherland highlanders in
military paintings of battle scenes by Harry Payne, Richard Simkin, Robert
Gibb, Lady Butler and William Barnes Wollen. |
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ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS
The regiment was formed in 1794, as the
98th Argyllshire Highlanders, changing in 1809 to the 91st of foot,
the 93rd Highlanders were formed in 1799, and in 1881 both of these
Regiments became the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Princess Louise's
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
Battle
Honours
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1806, at the Cape of
good hope against the Dutch. |
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1808
- 1814, Rolica, Vimiera, Corunna, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes,
Toulouse during the Peninsula War |
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1846
- 1847 Seventh Kaffir war, south Africa |
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1851
- 1853, Eigth Kaffie War, South Africa |
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1854
- 1856, Alam, Balaclava, Sebastopol during the Crimean War |
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1857
- 1858 at Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny |
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1877
- 1979 Zulu war, South Africa |
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1899
- 1902 Modder River, Paardeburg, during the Boer War, South Africa |
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1914
- 1918 Mons, Le Cateaux, Marne 1914, 1918, Ypres 1915, 1917, 1918, Loos,
Somme 1916, 1918, Arras 1917, 1918, Cambrai 1917, 1918, Doiran 1917, 1918,
Gaza. during the First World war |
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1939
- 1945 Odon River, Sidi Barrani, El Alamein, Akarit, Longstop Hill
1943, Crete, Grik Road, Malaya 1941- 1942 |
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1950
- 1953 Pakchon during the Korean War. World
war One: Retreat From Ons, Aisne 1914, La Bassee 1914, Messines
1914, Armentieres 1914, Gravenstafel, St Juliene, Frezenberg,
Albert 1916, 1918, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozieres,
Flers Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre heihgts, Scarpe 1917,
1918, Arleux, t, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinede,
Poelcapelle, Passchendaele, St Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosieres, Lys,
Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul; Kemmel Bethune, Soissonais-Ourcq,
Tardenois, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Epehy, Canal Du Nord, St Quentin
Canal Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre France and Flanders
1914-18. , Italy 1917-1918. Struma, Macedonia 1915-1918,
gallipoli 1915-16, Rumani, Egypt 1916, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jaffa,
Palestine 1917-1918
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World War Two. Somme,
1940, Tourmauville Bridge, Caen, Esquay, Mont Pincon, Quarry
Hill Estry Falaise, Dives Crossing Aart, Lower Mass Meijel,
Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Uelzen, Artlenberg,North
West Europe,1940-1944-45, Abyssinia, Medjez Plain, North Africa
1940-3, Sicily landings, Sicily 1943, Gerbini, Adrano, Centuripe,
Sicily 1943, Termoli Sangro, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Aquino,
Monte Casalino, Monte Spadura, Monte Grande, Senio, Santenro
Crossing, Argenta Gap, Heraklion, Middle east in 1941, North
Malaya, Central Malaya, Ipoh Slim River, Singapore. |
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Victoria
Cross Awards 16 Victoria Crosses were awarded to members of the regiment. 7 during the
Indian Mutiny, 6 during World war One, 2 during World war two, and 1
during the Korean War. |
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Letters from Home by Robert Gibb.
Sutherland Highlander Officers, are shown in camp, reading letters from home, during the Crimean war.
A restricted print run published in 1991 by permission of the Regimental Trustees of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Image size 15 inches x 24 inches (38cm x 61cm). Price £48.00
A restricted print run published in 1991 by permission of the Regimental Trustees of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Image size 12 inches x 8 inches (31cm x 20cm). Price £14.00
**A restricted print run published in 1991 by permission of the Regimental Trustees of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. (One copy reduced to clear) Image size 15 inches x 24 inches (38cm x 61cm). Price £30.00
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Argyll and Sutherland Officer Review Order 1914 by Haswell Miller
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Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders by Harry Payne.
Open edition print. Image size 7 inches x 12 inches (18cm x 31cm). Price £14.00
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Piper, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders by Harry Payne.
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The Thin Red Line by Robert Gibb.
There is no retreat from here, men! said General Sir Colin Campbell (who at that moment may have said to have commanded the regiment in person) as he cantered along the front of the 93rd You must die where you stand To which some of the Highlanders replied cheerily Ay Ay, Sir Colin if needs be well do that. Nearer and nearer the Russian Squadrons approached - the ground trembling beneath their horses feet, and gathering speed at every stride, they galloped on towards that thin red streak, topped with steel the Sutherland Highlanders awaited the onslaught of the enemys horsemen in line, without a movement in their ranks. I would not even form four deep! was the reply of Sir Colin, when remonstrated with for giving the Russians such a chance. Cool as if on Birthday parade The Sutherlands stood until their foes were within 600 yards, then down on their knees they dropped the front rank, and delivered a steady volley. But the distance was too great, and, though a few saddles were emptied, the Russians pressed forward unchecked. On they rode, till scarcely 200 yards separated them from the intrepid Highlanders. When the rear rank brought their Minies to the present and over the heads of their kneeling comrades pourd a withering fire into the enemys masses.Shaken to their very centre, the Russian Squadrons fell back, but, encouraged by their gallant leaders, they determined to make one last bid for victory, and wheeling around, endeavored to turn the Highlanders right flank. here they were checkmated by the grenadier Company, which received the charge with such a volley, that the Russians went Files about and scampered off to seek the shelter of their guns.
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Operation Bluecoat, Normandy, 30th July 1944 by David Pentland.
Churchill MkIV tank of the 6th Guards Tank Brigade (comprised of 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards, 4th Battalion Coldstream Guards and 3rd Battalion Scots Guards), pass infantry of the 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders during the Battle for Caumont.
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Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders by Richard Simkin
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Original chromolithograph. Image size 10 inches x 13 inches. One copy available.. Price £140.00
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The Advance of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders at the Battle of Alma 1854 by Richard Simkin.
Plate from the book our armies 1896. Image size 10 inches x 7 inches paper size 11 inches x 8 inches.. Price £65.00
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Sunset Saviours by Robin Smith.
Signed by Wallace McIntosh, an ex Lanc. rear gunner. Wallace has the distinction of holding the record for Bomber Command kills from the rear turret of Avro Lancaster EM-M LL973 standing at 8 confirmed kills.
Signed limited edition of 500 prints. Paper size 28 inches x 20 inches (71cm x 51cm). Price £95.00 Signed by Wallace McIntosh.
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Captain Liddell Piloting His Aeroplane Down into The British Lines After Being Seriously Wounded.
While on a flying reconnaissance over Ostend, Bruges and Ghent, on July 31st 1915, Captain John Aidan Liddell of the 3rd Battalion Princess Louises Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was severely wounded, his thigh being broken. For a moment he lost consciousness and dropped nearly three thousand feet, but by a great effort he recovered partial control, and, though in a state of collapse, succeeded in completing his course while being continually fired at. He brought the aeroplane into the British lined half an hour after being wounded. Apart from his personal injuries, the difficulties experienced by Captain Liddell in saving the machine and the observer were very great, as the control wheel and throttle control of the machine, and also one of the under carriage struts, were smashed. For his most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty, Captain Liddell was awarded the V.C., but unfortunately died of his injuries.
First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
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A Company of the 9th Argylls Advancing Under Heavy Fire to Reinforce the 2nd Camerons During the Second Battle of Ypres.
Between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. on May 10th 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres, the regiment of the 9th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Territorial Force) was ordered to reinforce the 2nd Camerons with two companies. Major George James Christie thereupon led A and D Companies through a terrific shellfire to a position two hundred yards west of Hooge. But at 9.30 he was ordered to reinforce the trench south of the Menin Road, which was reported to be breaking. A Company was chosen, and led with dauntless courage by Major Christie; they went forward in short rushes with shouts of Good old 9thArgylls. The advance lay over a bare slope without any cover from the terrible fire, but though men fell fast these brave Scotsmen never wavered.
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from Home by Robert Gibb Sutherland Highlander Officers, are shown in camp, reading letters from
home, during the Crimean war.
The Thin Red Line by Robert Gibb "There is no retreat from here, men!" said General Sir Colin
Campbell (who at that moment may have said to have commanded the regiment
in person) as he cantered along the front of the 93rd "You must die
where you stand" To which some of the Highlanders replied cheerily
"Ay Ay, Sir Colin if needs be we'll do that".
Nearer and nearer the Russian Squadrons approached - the ground
trembling beneath their horses feet; and gathering speed at every stride,
they galloped on towards that thin red streak, topped with
steel" the Sutherland Highlanders awaited the onslaught
of the enemy's horsemen in line, without a movement in their ranks.
"I would not even form four deep1" was the reply of Sir
Colin, when remonstrated with for giving the Russians such a chance. Cool
as if on "Birthday parade" The Sutherland s stood until their
foes were within 600 yards; then down on their knees they dropped the
front rank, and delivered a steady volley. But the distance was too great,
and, though a few saddles were emptied, the Russians pressed forward
unchecked. On they rode, till scarcely 200 yards separated them from the
intrepid Highlanders; When the rear rank brought their "Minies"
to the "present" and over their heads of their kneeling comrades
pourd a withering fire into the enemy's masses. Shaken to their very
centre, the Russian Squadrons fell back, but,
encouraged by their gallant leaders, they determined to make one last bid
for victory, and wheeling around, endeavoured to turn the Highlanders
right flank. here they were checkmated by the grenadier Company, which
received the charge with such a volley, that the Russians went "Files
about" and scampered off to seek the shelter of their guns.
Fighting Spirit by Peter Archer
Shows the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
going over the top of the trenches during the First World War.
Operation Bluecoat, Normandy 30th July 1944 by David Pentland
Churchill MkIV tank of the 6th Guards Tank Brigade (comprised of 4th
Battalion Grenadier Guards, 4th Battalion Coldstream Guards and 3rd
Battalion Scots Guards), pass infantry of the 2nd Battalion Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders during the Battle for Caumont.
Captain
Liddell Piloting His Aeroplane Down into The British Lines After Being
Seriously Wounded.
While on a flying reconnaissance over Ostend, Bruges and Ghent,
on July 31st 1915, Captain John Aidan Liddell of the 3rd
Battalion Princess Louises Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was
severely wounded, his thigh being broken.
For a moment he lost consciousness and dropped nearly three
thousand feet, but by a great effort he recovered partial control, and,
though in a state of collapse, succeeded in completing his course while
being continually fired at. He
brought the aeroplane into the British lined half an hour after being
wounded. Apart from his
personal injuries, the difficulties experienced by Captain Liddell in
saving the machine and the observer were very great, as the control
wheel and throttle control of the machine, and also one of the under
carriage struts, were smashed. For
his most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty, Captain Liddell was
awarded the V.C., but unfortunately died of his injuries.
A Company of the 9th
Argylls Advancing Under Heavy Fire to Reinforce the 2nd Camerons During
the Second Battle of Ypres. Between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. on May 10th 1915, during the
Second Battle of Ypres, the regiment of the 9th Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders (Territorial Force) was ordered to reinforce the
2nd Camerons with two companies. Major George James Christie thereupon led A and D
Companies through a terrific shellfire to a position two hundred yards
west of Hooge. But at 9.30
he was ordered to reinforce the trench south of the Menin Road, which
was reported to be breaking. A
Company was chosen, and led with dauntless courage by Major Christie;
they went forward in short rushes with shouts of Good old 9thArgylls. The advance lay over a bare slope without any cover from the
terrible fire, but though men fell fast these brave Scotsmen never
wavered.
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History of the Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders, during the reign of Queen Victoria.
The double name given to this regiment indicates
its origin. The 1st
battalion was the late 91st of the Line, or Argylshire, and
its 2nd the 93rd, or Sutherland Highlanders.
The former was raised in 1794 as a kilted regiment,
with the Campbell tartan; white epaulettes and yellow facings were worn;
and it was first numbered the 98th, but in 1798 this was
altered to its recent designation, the 91st. Its first service was at the capture of Cape Town
by Sir Alured Clarke, in 1795, when it does not appear to have worn
either kilt or tartan, but the national costume was partly resumed on
its return to England in 1803.
It was during the voyage home that one of the
regimental heirlooms was acquired.
For a narwhal having charged the transport, and left its bony
snout in the ship’s side, this was eventually removed, and converted
into the sergeant-major’s official walking stick, decorated with a
series of gold plates, eight in number, bearing the names of the
principal Peninsular battles in which the regiment served.
A second battalion, formed in 1804, served at Bergen-op-Zoom in
1813, but was shortly afterwards disbanded.
The other battalion shared in the Peninsula
campaign from 1807 to 1809, being present at Obidos and Vimiera under
Wellesley, and at Corunna under Moore, while detachments served at
Oporto and Talavera. The
bulk of the regiment joined the Walcheren expedition, at which period
the standard for recruits was first fixed at 5 feet 4 inches; and after
losing many men by sickness it returned to England, to be transferred
again to the Peninsula, where it remained
till 1814, taking part in the battles of Vittoria, Saurauren,
Nivelles, Nive, Bayonne, Orthes, and Toulouse.
Though it landed in Belgium for the Waterloo campaign, it took no
part in the great fight, as it was detailed to guard the lines of
communication. In 1822 the
coatee took the place of the regimental jacket, and this lasted until
the introduction of the tunic; but in 1864 its original Highland title
was restored, and it became a trewed regiment, the costume being added
to a little later by the blue patrol jacket for the officers, and a red
serge frock of the Stewart pattern for the men.
Finally it was reconverted into a kilted regiment, and received
its present title.
Meanwhile it had seen its most prolonged and
arduous service at the Cape, where, with a “Reserve Battalion”,
raised in 1842 and incorporated with the first in 1857, the regiment
served for twenty years. It was unfortunate in its sea voyages.
The “Reserve Battalion” went ashore in the Abercrombie
Robinson, and a detachment of the 91st was wrecked on
board the Birkenhead in 1852.
In both cases the superb discipline of the regiment was
evidenced; and, in the latter case, the noble bravery of the men in
preferring to go down with the ship rather than endanger the safety of
the boats, already over laden with women and children, sheds a lustre not
only the history of the regiment, but that of the whole army of the
State. Out of 631 souls
only 193 were saved.
Among the interesting if unwarlike duties it has
had to undertake during this time may be mentioned that some of its
companies were present at the exhumation of the remains of Napoleon I at
St Helena in 1840.
It was mixed up in the disturbances between Boers
and Griquas as far back as 1843, and then shared during the first Kaffir
War in the dangerous operation in the Amatolas and the Waterkloof.
In one of these small campaigns alone it marched 1,200 miles.
For these services it bears the names of “South Africa,
1846-47”, as well as of “South Africa, 1851-52-53”, on its colours, to which it added later “South Africa, 1879”, for its work
during the Zulu campaign, where it took part in the actions of
Ghinghilovo and Ekowe. Its
only other foreign service before this last was in the operations
against the Rohillas in 1859. Before the 2nd battalion, formerly known
as the 93rd or Sutherland Highlanders, was called into being,
a regiment of “Sutherland Fencibles” had appeared, to be disbanded
in 1798. It was not until
1800 that “Major General Wemyss’ regiment of Infantry was formed”.
Neither battalion of the regiment seems to have
been much favoured by the sea, for in the first expedition of the 93rd
to the Cape, in 1805, it lost thirty five men by the upsetting of a boat
in Lospard bay. For the
battle of Blauwe Mountains and the surrender of the colony it earned the
first name for the regimental list of honours, viz., “Cape of Good
Hope, 1806”. Its career in South Africa was uneventful until 1814, when it
returned to England, to proceed at once with the expedition to New
Orleans, where, in the attempt to storm the works, it lost 584 men, and
the attack failed.
A second battalion was raised in the same year, but
disappeared after less than two years’ life.
Little of military interest occurred until the outbreak of the
Crimean War, when the 93rd formed part of Sir Colin
Campbell’s Highland Brigade. Sir
Colin’s order to the brigade before going into action shows the
discipline of the regiments at that time, and still more the value of
localisation. To none would the threat used by the General appeal more
directly than to a Scotsman, when he was told that if any soldier
attempted to carry off wounded men “his name shall be stuck up in the
parish church”. It was
the fact that these men were localised to a great extent, that made such
a threat serious. They
behaved with admirable gallantry everywhere.
When they met the charge of the Russian cavalry in line it was an
act of desperate boldness, considering the slow loading arms of that
time. But to Sir Colin’s
brief address, “There is no retreat from here, men! You must die where
you stand”, came the ready, cheery answer, “Ay! Ay! Sir Colin, and
needs be we will do that!” The
93rd shared in the occupation of Kertch, and saw the fall of
Sebastopol; and in 1857, when on its way to China, was diverted at the
Cape to the more serious work of the Mutiny in India, where it again
fell under its old general’s command, and saw practically continuous
arduous and active service until 1859.
It was engaged at Kudjwa, where some of its wounded and some
wounded sappers beat off a body of rebels; in the first advance on
Lucknow (which name is borne on the colours); at Secundrabagh; at
Cawnpore; at Kala Nuddee; the second and successful advance on Lucknow,
when Lieutenant and Adjutant Macbean killed eleven men with his own
hand, and where the regimental piper, among the first to crown the
breach, remained there, cheering his comrades on with the pipes, at Fort
Rayah, where Adrian Hope was slain; at Bareilly, Pusgaon, Russulpore,
and Fort Mussowli. During
the campaign seven Victoria Crosses had been won, and three other
officers were recommended, but though the cases were most meritous, the
applications were not granted. Crosses
were bestowed upon Captain Stewart, who was elected to the honour by the
officers of the regiment; Lieutenant Macbean (or McBen), for the exploit
referred to above; Sergeant Paton, chosen by the non-commissioned
officers of the regiment for reconnoitring for a breach under a heavy
fire; Sergeant Munro, for saving Captain Walsh when wounded; and
Privates Mackay and Grant, both selected by the privates of the regiment
for their distinguished bravery.
This regiment’s last active service was in the
Umbeyla campaign.
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders is the only
infantry regiment of the Line that bears “Balaklava” on its colours.
Their gallantry in the battle when the “thin red line”
received the charge of the Russian cavalry – a formation to meet the
mounted arm unprecedented up to that time in the annals of war – has
been already referred to, and the name of “the thin red line” is the
only recorded nickname – save probably the “Rory’s” – the old
93rd have had. It
is also stated, that though the first “king’s colour” is retained,
framed and glazed, the regimental colour carried with it has
disappeared. Tradition
explains this by asserting that when Colonel Dale of the regiment was
mortally wounded before Orleans in 1814 he made the request that he
should be buried wrapped in one of the colours, and his wish was
complied with.
Like other Scotch regiments, the scarlet uniform is
faced with yellow, and the kilt is of Sutherland tartan. The badges are quaint; a myrtle wreath interlaced with one of
butcher’s broom, the former surrounding a boar’s head with “Ne
Obliviscaris”, and within
the other a cat with the scroll “Sans peur”, the whole linked
together with a label of three points, and crowned by the coronet of H.
R. H. the Princess Louise, is worn on the button.
The tunic collar has the same without the crown.
The head dress plate bears a thistle wreath, within it is the
regimental title on a small scroll within the double cipher crown of the
Princess Louise; the boar’s head and cat are borne on either side.
The feather bonnet has a white feather and a scarlet and white
diced border. The 91st
regiment, or the Princess Louise’s Argyllshire Highlanders, were
shortly after the marriage of the Princess “commanded” by the Queen
to “always march past (in quick time) to their pipers”,
The 3rd and 4th Militia
Battalions are the Highland Borderers Militia, formed in 1803, and the
Royal Renfrew in 1798. The
latter was embodied until 1816 and again in 1855, having “invariably
been kept to its establishment, and given a great many officers and men
to the regular army, notably during the Peninsular and Crimean Wars”.
There are seven Volunteer Battalions attached : the 1st,
2nd, and 3rd Renfrew, 1859-60; the 1st
Stirling, the 1st Argyll, the 1st Dumbarton, and
the 1st Clackmannan, 1859, and Kinross.
All these wear a scarlet uniform with the national facings,
except the second, which has blue facings.
The regimental depot is at Stirling.
Extract from "The British Army and Auxiliary Forces"
Colonel
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