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The Black Watch was raised in
1739 as the 43rd Highland Regiment, in 1751 the 42nd was raised, and in
1881 both Regiments became the 1st and 2nd battalions of the Black Watch
(Royal Highlanders)
The Black Watch by Harry Payne. The Black Watch 1st Battalion 1893.
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The Black Watch by Harry Payne.
Open edition print. Image size 12 inches x 7 inches (31cm x 18cm). Price £14.00
Original Chromolithograph plate from the series published by A K Johnson, published 1893. Size 10 inches x 7 inches (25cm x 18cm). Price £90.00
ITEM CODE DHM0109
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Regimental Battle Honours shown on colours.
 | 1756 - 1763 Guadaloupe 1759, Martinique 1762, Havannah during the
Seven Years war |
| 1763 - 1764 Pontiac's Conspiracy in North America |
| 1781 - 1783 at Mangalore during the second Mysore War |
| 1789 - 1791 Mysore during the Third Mysore War |
| 1799 Seringapatam during the fourth
Mysore War |
| 1808 - 1814 Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes d'Onoro, Salamanca,
Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Poulouse during .
the Peninsula war |
| 1815, Battle of Waterloo |
| 1846 - 1847 Seventh Kaffir War |
| 1851 - 1853 Eighth Kaffir War |
| 1854 - 1855 Alma, Sebastopol, during the Crimean War |
| 1857 - 1858 Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny |
| 1873 - 1874 Ashantee War |
| 1882 - Tel El Kibir during the Arabi Pasha Revolt |
| 1882 - 1884 First Sudan War |
| 1885 - Kirbekan, Nile during the Egyptian Campaign |
| 1914 - 1918 Marne 1914, 1918, Ypres 1914, 1917, 1918,
Loos,
Somme 1916, 1918, Arras 1917, 1918, Lys, Hindenburg Line, Doian 1917,
Megiddo, Kut al Amara 1917 |
| 1939 - 1945 Falaise Rd, Rhine , Tobruk 1941, El
Alamein, Akarit,
Tunis, Sicily 1943, Cassino II, Crete, Burma 1944 |
| 1950 - 1953 The Hook 1952, During the Korean War |
VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS.
There has been fifteen members of the regiment who have been awarded
the Victoria Cross, Eight during the Indian Mutiny, One during the Ashanti
War, One during the first Sudan war, ,four during the World war One and
one during the Korean War
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