Cameron Highlanders shown at the Battle of Waterloo, Piper Kenneth Mackay and during world war two as part of the British Expeditionary Force. Military prints published by Cranston Fine Arts.

THE QUEEN'S OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS The Regiment was raised in 1793 as the 79th of foot, (Cameronian volunteers) they became the  1806 they became the 79th The Cameron highlanders, and in 1897 a second Battalion was formed. Battle Honours. 1793 - 1802  Egmont op Zee, during the French revolutionary wars. 1808 - 1814  Curunna, Fuentos Onoro, Busaco, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Toulouse, during the Peninsula War 1815.   battle o0f waterloo 1854 - 1855  Alma. and Sebastopol during the Crimean War 1857 - 1858  Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny 1882  Tel el Kibir  revolt of Arabi Pasha 1882 - 1884  First Sudan War 1885  at the Nile during the Egyptian Campaign 1884 - 1885  Atbra, Khartoum  Reconquest of Sudan 1899 - 1902 the Boer War 1914 - 1918 Marne 1914, 1918, Aisne, Ypres 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, Neuve Chapelle, Loos, Somme 1916, 1918, Delville Wood, Arras 1917, 1918, Sambre, Macedonia 1915 -1918 during world war one 1939 - 1945, St Omar-la bassee, Reichswald, Rhine, Keren, Sidi Barrani, El Alamein, Akarit, Gothic line Kohima, Mandalay  during world war two Victoria Cross awards. Four Victoria Cross's were awarded to members of the regiment, one during the Boer War,  and three during world war one.

 

Piper Kenneth Mackay at Waterloo by J.B. Anderson The picture shows piper Mackay marching repeatedly round the Cameron's square, outside the bayonets, playing the Pibroch Cogadh na Sith at the height of the Battle of Waterloo.  The Cameron Highlanders at Waterloo by Brian Palmer Cameron Highlanders in Square at Waterloo by Richard Simkin Battle of Atbara 1898 by S Berkeley  Depicting Cameron Highlanders. during the Battle of Atbara in the Sudan Campaign How Private Ross Tollerton Won His VC by Allen Stewart  On 13th September 1914, the British had forced the passage of the Aisne. The following morning a general advance was begun, but our men soon came under a very heavy shell and machine-gun fire, and Captain Matheson of the Cameron Highlanders, fell severely wounded. Private Tollerton lifted the wounded officer onto his back and carried him to an adjoining cornfield, where he laid him down under cover of a small cornstack. After rejoining his comrades he was hit in both his right hand and the right temple, but nevertheless, when they received orders to retire he went back to the wounded officer ad remained with him for three days until an opportunity occurred for them both to rejoin the regiment. Private Tollerton received the VC for his splendid gallantry and devotion. The Queens Own Cameron Highlanders by David Rowlands  1st Battalion in action at Escaut Canal, Belgium, May 1940. The last Highland Regiment to wear a kilt in battle, attacking the Germans at the River Escaut.