“On the regiment arriving at this point, loud cheers were raised by

the immense crowd assembled on the esplanade, which were immediately

taken up by those in the Castle, and enthusiastically continued.

On arriving at the Castle gate, the band ceased playing, and the

pipes struck up a merry tune. Even after the regiment had passed

into the Castle, large numbers of people, including many relatives

of the soldiers, continued to linger about the esplanade. It is now

thirty-two years since the regiment was in Edinburgh, and certainly

the reception which they received yesterday was a very enthusiastic

one. Four companies came from Perth, and joined the headquarters at

Stirling, and the whole regiment proceeded from thence to Edinburgh.”

We cannot refrain here from quoting some verses of a short poem

on the Black Watch, which appeared about this time, so happy and

spirited that it deserves a more permanent resting-place than a

newspaper.

THE BLACK WATCH.

A HISTORIC ODE, BY DUGALD DHU.

_Written for Waterloo Day, 1868._

Hail, gallant regiment! Freiceadan Dubh!

Whenever Albion needs thine aid,

“Aye ready” for whatever foe,

Shall dare to meet “the black brigade!”

Witness disastrous Fontenoy,

When all seemed lost, who brought us through?

Who saved defeat? secured retreat?

And bore the brunt?--the “Forty-Two!”

So, at Corunna’s grand retreat,

When, far outnumbered by the foe,

The patriot Moore made glorious halt,

Like setting sun in fiery glow.

Before us foam’d the rolling sea,

Behind, the carrion eagles flew;

But Scotland’s “Watch” proved Gallia’s match,

And won the game by “Forty-Two!”

The last time France stood British fire

“The Watch” gained glory at its cost;

At Quatre Bras and Hugomont,

Three dreadful days they kept their post.

Ten hundred there, who form’d in square,

Before the close a handful grew;

The little phalanx never flinched,

Till “Boney” ran from Waterloo!

The “Forty-Second” never dies--

It hath a regimental soul;

Fond Scotia, weeping, filled the blanks

Which Quatre Bras left in its roll.

At Alma, at Sevastopol,

At Lucknow, waved its bonnets blue!

Its dark green tartan, who but knows?

What heart but warms to “Forty-Two?”

But while we glory in the corps,

We’ll mind their martial brethren too;

The Ninety-Second, Seventy-Ninth,

And Seventy-First--all Waterloo!

The Seventy-Second, Seventy-Fourth--

The Ninety-Third--all tried and true!

The Seventy-Eight, real, “men of Ross;”

Come, count their honours, “Forty-Two!”

Eight noble regiments of the Queen,

God grant they long support her crown!

“Shoulder to shoulder,” Hielandmen!

United rivals in renown!

We’ll wreath the rose with heath that blows

Where barley-rigs yield mountain dew;

And pledge the Celt, in trews or kilt,

Whence Scotland drafts her “Forty-Two!”

It is worthy of remark, that from the time that the regiment embarked

at Leith for England in May 1803, until October 1868, a period of

upwards of 65 years, it was quartered in Edinburgh only 15 months--6

months in 1816, and 9 months in 1836-7. At its last visit it remained

only about a year, taking its departure on November 9, 1869, when it

embarked at Granton in the troop-ship “Orontes,” for Portsmouth, _en

route_ for the camp at Aldershot, where it arrived on the 12th. The

enthusiasm of the inhabitants of Edinburgh appears to have been even

far greater to the Black Watch on its departure than on its entry

into the northern metropolis. During their residence in Edinburgh

the Highlanders conducted themselves in such a manner as to win the

favourable opinions of all classes of the community, and to keep up

the ancient prestige and unbroken good name of the regiment. The

following is the _Scotsman’s_ account of its departure:

“After a sojourn in Scotland of eighteen months, twelve of which

have been passed in Edinburgh, the 42d Royal Highlanders departed

yesterday from the city, taking with them the best wishes of the

inhabitants. Since the arrival of the 78th Highlanders, immediately

after the close of the Indian mutiny, such a degree of excitement as

was displayed yesterday has not been witnessed in connection with any

military event in the metropolis. It was generally known that 9 A.M.

had been fixed for the evacuation of the Castle by the Highlanders,

and long before that hour the Lawnmarket and the esplanade were

crowded with an eager and excited multitude. At 9 o’clock the crowd

increased fourfold, by the thousands of work-people, who, set free

at that time, determined to spend their breakfast-hour in witnessing

the departure of the gallant ‘Black Watch.’ At half-past nine, the

regiment, which had assembled in heavy marching order in the Castle

Square, began to move off under the command of Colonel M’Leod, the

band playing ‘Scotland Yet,’ and afterwards ‘Bonnets o’ Blue.’ As

the waving plumes were seen slowly wending down the serpentine path

which leads to the esplanade, an enthusiastic and prolonged cheer

burst from the spectators. As soon as the regiment had passed the

drawbridge, a rush was made by the onlookers to get clear of the

Esplanade. The narrow opening leading to the Lawnmarket was speedily

blocked, and the manner in which the living mass swayed to and fro

was most alarming--the din created by the crowd completely drowning

the music of the band. The pressure of the crowd was so great that

for a time the ranks of the regiment were broken, and a word of

praise is due to the Highlanders for their forbearance under the

jostling which they received from their perhaps too demonstratively

affectionate friends. The line of route taken was Lawnmarket, Bank

Street, the Mound, Hanover Street, Pitt Street, Brandon Street, to

Inverleith Row, and thence by the highway to Granton. The whole way

to the port of embarkation the regiment had literally to force its

passage through the dense masses which blocked the streets, and every

now and again a parting cheer was raised by the spectators. The

crowd, as has already been mentioned, was the largest that has been

seen in Edinburgh for many years, and has been roughly estimated as

numbering from fifty to sixty thousand persons. During the march

to Inverleith toll, the band played ‘Scotland for Ever,’ the ‘Red,

White, and Blue,’ ‘Home, sweet Home,’ and ‘London’s bonnie Woods and

Braes.’ Shortly after pressing through the toll, and when within a

mile of Granton, the Highlanders were met by the 90th Regiment of

Foot (Perthshire Volunteers), who were _en route_ to Edinburgh to

succeed the ‘Black Watch’ as the garrison of the Castle. According to

military custom, the junior regiment drew up alongside the roadway,

and presented arms to the Highlanders, who fixed bayonets and

brought their rifles to the shoulder as they marched past. At this

interesting ceremony the band of the Highlanders played ‘Blue Bonnets

over the Border,’ while that of the 90th struck up the ‘Gathering

of the Grahams.’ Granton was reached about 11 o’clock, and as the

Highlanders marched along the pier, ‘Auld Langsyne’ was appropriately

played by the band. The slopes leading down to the harbour and the

wharfs were thickly covered with spectators, who lustily cheered the

Highlanders, and who showed the liveliest interest in the process of

embarkation.”

VIII.

1817-1873.

Account of Variations in Dress of the Black Watch--Regimental

Pets--“Pincher”--“Donald the Deer”--“The Grenadiers’ Cat”--Monument

to Black Watch in Dunkeld Cathedral--Conclusion.

Before concluding our history of this, the oldest Highland regiment,

we shall present a brief account of the variations which have from

time to time taken place in the dress of the regiment, and wind up

with short biographies of the regimental pets. For our information

on both these matters, as well as for the greater part of the modern

history of the regiment, we must again express our large indebtedness

to the manuscript memorials of Lieutenant-Colonel Wheatley.

It is a curious study to note the many alterations that have taken

place in the uniform of officers and men since 1817. In 1817 the

officers had a short-skirted coatee, elaborately covered with rich

gold lace, about nine bars on the breast over blue lappels, hooked

in the centre. It was also thickly covered with lace on the collar,

cuffs, and skirts. All ranks wore two heavy epaulets of rich bullion.

The field officers only wore scarves, which were their distinguishing

mark of rank. All the officers wore richly braided scarlet

waistcoats, and frills plaited very small, the shirt collar well

exposed above the black silk stock. Sky-blue cloth trousers, with a

broad stripe of gold lace edged with scarlet was the usual parade

uniform; and parade invariably took place morning and afternoon,

every officer present, and in the above-mentioned uniform, and with

feathered bonnet. The gold-laced trousers were abolished in 1823, and

blue-gray substituted without lace, which was continued until 1829,

when Sir Charles Gordon introduced the trews of regimental tartan,

which were fringed round the bottom, and up the outer seams. The

fringe system was continued for some years, when it was also done

away with.

The undress in barracks was in general a light gray long frock coat;

but leaving the barracks, the officers invariably appeared in the

coatee and a tartan bonnet without feathers, with a short red heckle

in front, confined by a gold ring about one-third up. This handy

bonnet was also worn on the line of march with the coatee. It was

replaced in 1824 by a tartan shako, with black silk cord ornaments

and a heavy red ostrich plume, which again gave way to the regular

forage cap in 1826, first introduced with a broad top, and stiff in

appearance, with a small gold embroidered thistle in front. Before

1830, when the single-breasted blue frock-coat, without any shoulder

ornaments, was introduced into the army, a richly braided blue

frock-coat was worn; but it was optional. White Cashmere trousers,

narrow at the ankles with a gold stripe edged with scarlet, silk

socks, and long quartered shoes with buckles, was also permitted for

the evening (about 1819-20).

Before the adoption of the tartan trousers, the officers’ dress was

a strange mixture of Highland and line. For instance, at the guard

mounting parade in Dublin in 1819-20, could anything, in the way

of dress, be more absurd in a Highland regiment than to see the

officers for the Castle guards in full Highland dress, and the five

or six for other guards, the field officer, adjutant, quarter-master,

and medical officer, in white Cashmere pantaloons, and short (under

the knee) Hessian tassled boots, and that with a feathered bonnet?

All officers for guard ought to have been in the full dress of the

regiment, but it was put on by them with the greatest reluctance, and

so seldom, that the officers could not dress themselves, and their

remarks reached the barrack rooms, through their servants, which

caused the dislike to the dress to descend to the men, and for years

had the direct effect of causing the men to rail much against it.

Since 1843, officers and men alike wear it on duty and on parade,

which ought always to have been the case. In 1823-24 the officers

all wore wings, rich and heavy, which were discontinued in 1830, by

order, and epaulets, with bullion according to rank (for the first

time) substituted; and it is a singular fact that the men were

authorised to wear wings, by regulation, the same year; and still

more singular, until the epaulets were abolished 25 years afterwards,

the non-commissioned officers and men wore wings, and the officers

epaulets. The laced lappels and braided waistcoats disappeared in

1830, when lace was generally done away with on the breast of the

coat in the army. When the regiment returned from the Peninsula in

1814, from being so long in the field, the feathers had disappeared

from the bonnet, and a little red feather on the front, the same as

on a shako, had been adopted. When the bonnets were renewed, the rank

and file were not allowed to have foxtails, under the impression

that it caused an unsteady appearance in the ranks. Why not the

officers and sergeants cause an unsteady appearance? Be that as it

may, to the disgust of the men, and a source of amusement to all the

other Highland regiments, was our “craw’s wing,” a wirework 8 inches

above the cloth, covered with flats (almost free of anything like

ostrich feathers) having a large unmeaning open gap at the right

side, famous for catching the wind, which was ornamented with a large

loose worsted tuft of white for the grenadiers, green for the light

company, and red for the others. Yet this hideous thing was continued

until the summer of 1821, when most willingly the men paid about

thirty shillings each to have the addition of “foxtails;” yet these

were a draw back, as the tails were not to hang lower than the top

of the dice of the tartan. The grand point was, however, gained in

getting rid of the frightful “craw’s wing,” and by degrees the tails

descended to a proper length. At this time there were a variety of

heckles worn in the bonnet, another piece of bad taste--white for

the grenadiers, green for the light company, the band white, and

the drummers yellow, with each of them two inches of red at the

top, and the other eight companies (called battalion companies)

red. On going to Dublin in 1825, from Buttevant, the colonel of the

regiment, Sir George Murray, was the commander of the forces, and

at the first garrison parade, noticing the extraordinary variety of

heckles, asked an explanation as to the reason of any heckle being

worn in the regiment other than the red, it being “a special mark of

distinction,” and desired that all other colours should disappear.

The next day every officer and man was in possession of a red heckle.

The white jacket was first worn with the kilt in 1821, which was

considered at first to be very odd. Up to 1819, it was sometimes

served out without sleeves; and when sleeves became general, the

soldiers were charged 1s. 3d. for them, “for the colonel’s credit.”

Until 1821 it was used as a waistcoat, or for barrack-room wear. It

is still in use in the Guards and Highland regiments, notwithstanding

its being a most useless article to the soldier. Instead of being

used, it has to be carefully put up ready for the next parade.

Moreover, why were the Guards and Highlanders left to suffer under

it, when the reason for doing away with it in 1830 was--“It having

been represented to the general commanding-in-chief, that the

frequent use of dry pipe-clay, in the cleaning of the white jacket,

is prejudicial to the health of the soldiers?” Surely the lungs of

the Guards and Highlanders were as vulnerable as those of the rest of

the army, and their health and lives equally precious. Many a time

it was brought to notice; but “to be like the Guards” was sufficient

to continue it. Yet there is no doubt the honour would be willingly

dispensed with, and the getting rid of it would be much to the men’s

comfort. Let us hope it will soon disappear, as well as the white

coats of the band, still in use for all the army in 1873.

Until about 1840, never more than 4 yards of tartan were put into the

kilt, and until lately, it never exceeded 4½ to 5. The plaid up to

1830 contained about 2½ yards, for no use or purpose but to be pushed

up under the waist of the coat, taking from the figure of the man.

Until 1822, to have trousers was optional, even on guard at night.

Many men were without them, and cloth of all colours, and fustian,

was to be seen. From soon after the return of the regiment to

Edinburgh after Waterloo, long-quartered shoes and buckles were

worn on all occasions. The shoes were deserving of the name given

to them--“toe cases.” To such a ridiculous extent was the use of

shoes and buckles carried, that after a marching order parade, the

spats had to be taken off, and buckles put on before being permitted

to leave the barracks. The red and white hose cloth up to 1813 was

of a warm, woolly, genial stuff; but, for appearance, a hard cold

thin article was encouraged, and soon became so general, that it

was finally adopted, and the warm articles put out of use. At this

time the regiment was in Richmond Barracks, Dublin (1819-20), and,

consequently had to go to the Royal Barracks for guard mounting, and

often from a mile or two farther to the guard, in the shoe already

described. In rainy weather, it was quite a common occurrence to see

men reach the guard almost shoeless, with the hose entirely spoiled,

and no change for twenty-four hours; yet, bad as this was, it had its

consolation, that “it was better than breeches and leggings,” the

guard and review dress for the infantry at this time. Had gaiters

been taken into use, even in winter, and the strong shoe, it would

have added much to the comfort of the men. The hose being made out

of the piece, with coarse seams, were also badly adapted for the

march, and not a man in twenty had half hose and socks. The soldier

in general is thoughtless, and at this time no consideration for his

comfort was taken by those whose duty it was do so, either in eating

or clothing. As a proof of it, we have seen that no breakfast mess

was established until 1819.

It was at Gibraltar, in the beginning of 1826, that the gaiters

were taken into daily wear and for guard; and the frill, the pest

of the men (because of the care that had to be taken of it), and

the soldiers’ wives who did the washing. There were individuals who

rejoiced in these frills, and to excel, paid from 2s. 6d. to 4s.

for them. White leather pipe-clayed gloves were also part of the

soldier’s dress at all parades, and “gloves off” became a regular

word of command before “the manual and platoon.” In short, what with

shoes and buckles, frills, a stock up to the ears, about six yards

of garters on each leg, muskets with clear locks (burnished in many

cases), and well bees-waxed stocks and barrels, they were a most

singularly equipped set of soldiers. Yet such was the force of habit,

and what the eye had been accustomed to, when the frills and buckles

disappeared, many (officers) considered it as an unwarrantable

innovation; but not so the soldiers, who derived more comfort from

the change than can well be imagined.

In 1820, shoulder tufts, about four inches, were substituted for the

smaller ones hitherto worn by the battalion companies. The following

year they became a little longer. In 1824, though still short of a

regular wing, a shell was added, but without lace, stiffened with

pasteboard. In 1827 a little lace was added, and in 1830 the ambition

of having wings was consummated, as it became regulation for the

non-commissioned officers and men of Highland regiments to wear

wings, although, as already mentioned, the officers continued to wear

epaulets.

Patent leather chin straps were first used in 1822. Before that a few

only had narrow tape, which was not always approved of, it resting

upon the whim of the officers or sergeant-major.

Until about 1840, the lace on the coats of both cavalry and infantry

was of great variety, a few corps having it all white, but, in

general with a “worm” of one or two colours of from one-fifth to

one-third of the breadth of the lace. The 42d wore white lace, with

a red “worm” three-fourths of the white on one side of the red, and

one-fourth on the other. The 73d had the same lace, continued from

the time it was the 2d battalion of the regiment.

The breast, cuffs, collars, and skirts were covered with lace, the

cause of much dry pipe-claying. Some corps had it with square bars,

others in “frogs.” The 42d had the latter. Its abolition about 1830

was regretted by many, because it was an old-established custom, and

also that it added much to the appearance of the sergeants’ uniform;

but when it came to be worn at a cost of from six to seven pounds for

lace and fringe, it was, without doubt, a hardship, and Sir Charles

Gordon did well in abolishing it.[362]

All the staff-sergeants wore the turned-back blue lappels, barred

with square lace, and hooked in the middle, which was particularly

handsome, and much admired. They ceased to wear the silver at the

same time as the others, more to their regret, as a coat served many

of them for years. The sergeant-major and quarter-sergeant only

continued it, being furnished to them, with handsome bullion wings,

along with their clothing.

The only changes of late years have been the Highland jacket and dark

hose, both for the better, and the bonnet much reduced in size, also

a decided improvement, all introduced after the Crimean war. The kilt

is also more ample, and better made, adding to the better figure

and appearance of the men, who are in all better dressed at present

(1873) than at any previous period. May they always continue to be

the pattern, as they ought to be, to all the Highland regiments,

and that not only in dress, but also in all the qualities of good

soldiers.

* * * * *

Out of the many pets of the regiment, we present our readers with

the lives of these three, as being on the whole most worthy of

record,--the dog “Pincher,” “Donald” the Deer, and the “Grenadiers’

Cat.”

“Pincher” was a small smooth-skinned terrier that attached himself to

the regiment on the march in Ireland, at some stage near to Naas, its

destination on coming home after the Peninsular war in 1814. Pincher

was truly a regimental dog. If he had any partiality, it was slightly

towards the light company. He marched to Kilkenny with the regiment,

back from Naas, remained with it during the winter, and embarked for

Flanders in the spring; went into action with it at Quatre Bras, and

was wounded somewhat severely in the neck and shoulder, but, like a

good soldier, would not quit the field. He was again in action at

Waterloo, accompanied his regiment to Paris, and, amidst armies of

all nations, Pincher never lost himself, came home, kept to his post,

and went over to his native country in 1817. Late in that year, or

early in 1818, he went with some men going on furlough to Scotland,

who were landed at Irvine. Poor Pincher ran after some rabbits in an

open warren, and was shot by a keeper, to the general grief of the

regiment, when the intelligence reached it, which was not until one

of the men returned from Scotland to join. In the meantime, Pincher

had hardly been missed. There was some wonder at Armagh, and remarks

made that Pincher was long on his rounds, but no anxiety regarding

him, because it was well known, that from the time of his joining the

regiment in 1814, it mattered not how many detachments were out from

headquarters, in turn he visited them all; and it was often a matter

of wonder how he arrived, and by what instinct he found them out.

Poor Pincher was a good and faithful soldier’s dog, and, like many

a good soldier, died an inglorious death. His memory was respected

while his generation existed in the regiment.

“Donald” the Deer was with the depot which awaited the regiment when

it went into Edinburgh Castle in September 1836 after landing at

Granton from Corfu. He was a youth at the time, and not so formidable

as to cause his antlers to be cut, which had to be done afterwards.

He marched the three days to Glasgow in June 1837. He was somewhat

mischievous that year, sometimes stopping the way when he chose to

make his lair, or with the meddlers and intruders on the Green when

the regiment was out at exercise. But it was in Dublin, in the summer

of 1838, that Donald came out. Without any training, he took his

place at the head of the regiment alongside of the sergeant-major.

Whether marching to and from the Phœnix Park for exercise, marching

out in winter, or at guard mounting on the day the 42d furnished the

band and staff, Donald was never absent. He accompanied the regiment

to all garrison field-days, went to feed until the time came for

going home, was often a mile from them, but always at his post when

the time came. With one exception, about the third field-day, the

79th were there for the first time, and Donald trotted up to them

when marching off. He somehow discovered his mistake, and became

uneasy and bumptious, and on reaching Island Bridge, when the 79th

had to turn off to Richmond Barracks, declined to accompany his

new friends any farther. Colonel Ferguson desired half a dozen men

to hand over their muskets to their comrades, and to drive Donald

towards the Royal Barracks. He went willingly, and happened to

rejoin his own corps at the Park gate, evidently delighted. He never

committed a similar mistake. When the regiment had the duty, he

invariably went with the guard to the Castle; and whether going or

coming, the crowd was always dense, although a daily occurrence,

but Donald made his way, and kept it clear too, and the roughs knew

better than to attempt to annoy him. Indeed, he has been known to

single out an individual who did so, and give chase after him through

the crowd. There was never any concern about him, as he could well

defend himself. The Greys were in the Royal Barracks with the 42d,

and permitted Donald to make his bed, even by tossing down their

litter, fed him with oats daily, &c. But early in 1839 the Greys

left, and the Bays succeeded them. It was very soon evident that

Donald and the new comers did not understand each other. The Bays

would not allow him to make his bed, nor did they give oats, and

Donald declared war against all Bays, when and wherever they came

near him, till at last a Bay man could hardly venture to cross the

Royal square, without looking out that Donald was out of the way. It

gave rise to a clever sketch made on the wall of the officers’ room

at the Bank guard of the “Stag at Bay,” where Donald was represented

as having one of them up against a wall. In May 1839, he made nine

days’ march to Limerick, although very footsore and out of temper,

and woe to the ostlers in the hotel-yard who interfered with him

after a day’s march. Donald had another failing, which his countrymen

are accused of, which was a great liking for whisky or sherry. He

suffered after a debauch, and it was forbidden to indulge Donald

in his liking in that way. At Limerick, as soon as the officers’

dinner pipe went, he made his way to the mess-room windows, which

were on the ground floor, to look for sherry, until a high fine had

to be made on any one who gave it to him. Donald afterwards marched

to Templemore, and finally to Cork. He had by this time become so

formidable in his temper, particularly to strangers, that it was

clear he could not be taken on board a ship to Corfu, even if the

captain of the troopship would permit it; and, to the regret of all,

it was decided that Donald must be transferred to strangers. Colonel

Johnstone arranged with Lord Bandon, who promised that Donald should

have the run of his fine park at Bandon Castle while he lived, and it

was Donald’s own fault that it was not so. It was really an effecting

sight to see poor Donald thrown over and tied with ropes by those he

loved so well, and put into a cart to be carried off. His cries were

pitiful, and he actually shed tears, and so did some of his friends,

for Donald was a universal favourite. Thus the regiment parted with

dear old Donald, and nothing more was heard of him for many years.

In 1862, nearly 22 years afterwards, Lieutenant-Colonel Wheatley

being appointed to the Cork district, soon after arriving at Cork,

took steps to ascertain the subsequent history of Donald. The reply

was, “That from the day he was set at liberty in the park, he

declined having any intercourse with either man or beast. That summer

and winter he kept in out-of-the-way places to which no one could

approach; and that there had been so many complaints against him,

that about the end of two years his lordship reluctantly sanctioned

his being shot.” Poor Donald! the regiment and its ways was the only

home he ever knew, and his happiness left him when separated from it.

So has it been with many others besides Donald.

The “Grenadier’s Cat” was picked up by the company in one of the

encampments in Bulgaria, probably in Gevrecklar, and was embarked at

Varna for the Crimea. Having seen it at the bivouac at Lake Touzla,

Lieutenant-Colonel Wheatley was induced, after the action at Alma

had commenced, to ask what had become of poor puss, when one of No.

1 company called, “It is here, sir,” and opening his haversack, the

animal looked out quite contented. It was shut up again, and on

making inquiry next morning, it was found that “Bell” had escaped

both death and wounds, and was amongst them in the bivouac, well

taken care of in so far as having an ample share of the rations. It

appears that the man who carried the cat and took care of it, was

exempted by the company from fatigue duties, or his turn of carrying

the cooking-kettles, &c. Like all the pets, it did not come to a

peaceful end. It finally became an inmate of the regimental hospital,

being the only quiet place to be found for it, got worried, and

died at Balaclava. Such was the end of Bulgarian “Bell,” the only

instance, probably, of a cat going into action.

On 2d April 1872 took place one of the most interesting events in

connection with the history of the Black Watch, viz., the unveiling

in Dunkeld Cathedral of a magnificent monument (a plate of which

we give) to the memory of the officers, non-commissioned officers,

and men of the regiment, who fell in war from the creation of the

regiment to the close of the Indian mutiny. The monument, which had

been in preparation for several years, was subscribed for by the

officers of the regiment, and was executed by Mr John Steell, R.S.A.,

the celebrated Scottish sculptor. It is placed in the vestibule of

the cathedral, at the east end of the choir, and is the largest and

one of the finest mural monuments ever erected in Scotland.

The monument, as we have indicated, is a mural one, having for its

principal feature a beautiful piece of sculpture in _alto relievo_.

As originally designed by the artist, this composition was on a

comparatively small scale. When, however, the sketch came to be

submitted to the officers of the regiment, they were so much pleased

with the idea embodied in it that they resolved to have the figures

executed of life size, and increased their contributions accordingly.

Standing out against a large pointed panel of white marble, the

sculptured group, which is worked out in the same material as the

background, represents an officer of the 42d visiting a battle-field

at the close of an engagement to look for some missing comrade. The

point of time selected is the moment in which the searcher, having

just discovered the body of his friend, stands with uncovered head,

paying mute homage to departed valour. The central figure of the

composition is admirably modelled, the expression of the soldier’s

countenance being in fine keeping with the calm and subdued tone

which pervades the whole work. On the left, beneath the remains of

a shattered gun-carriage, lies the body of a young ensign, his hand

still grasping the flag he had stoutly defended, and his face wearing

a peaceful expression, as befitted a man who had died at his post.

Other accessories combine with those just mentioned to suggest the

grim realities of war; but the artist has so toned his composition

that the mind is insensibly led to dwell on that other aspect of the

battlefield in which it speaks of danger braved and duty nobly done.

A slab underneath the sculpture bears the following inscription:--

IN MEMORY OF

THE OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS,

AND

PRIVATE SOLDIERS

OF THE

42D ROYAL HIGHLANDERS--THE BLACK WATCH--

_WHO FELL IN WAR_

FROM

THE CREATION OF THE REGIMENT

TO

THE CLOSE OF THE INDIAN MUTINY,

1859.

THE TEN INDEPENDENT COMPANIES OF THE FREACADAN

DUBH, OR BLACK WATCH, WERE FORMED INTO A

REGIMENT ON THE 25TH OCTOBER 1739, AND THE

FIRST MUSTER TOOK PLACE IN MAY 1740,

IN A FIELD BETWEEN TAYBRIDGE

AND ABERFELDY.

Here, ’mong the hills that nursed each hardy Gael,

Our votive marble tells the soldier’s tale;

Art’s magic power each perished friend recalls,

And heroes haunt these old Cathedral walls.

_Erected by the Officers of the Corps._

1872.

[Illustration: MONUMENT IN DUNKELD CATHEDRAL.]

On either side of the above inscription are recorded the names of

the hard-fought fields in which the regiment gained its enviable

reputation. How many memories are recalled as one reads the long

roll of historic battle-grounds--“Fontenoy, Flanders, Ticonderoga,

Martinique, Guadaloupe, Havannah, Egypt, Corunna, Fuentes D’Onor,

Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula, Waterloo,

Alma, Sebastopol, Lucknow!” The selection of a site for the monument

was determined by considerations connected with the history of the

regiment. The gallant 42d having been originally drawn chiefly from

Perthshire, it was felt to be appropriate that the memorial intended

to commemorate its fallen heroes should be erected in that county;

and all will concur in the propriety of the arrangement by which

a shrine has been found for it within the venerable Cathedral of

Dunkeld.

For the following account of the ceremony we are indebted to the

_Scotsman_ of 3d April 1872:--

A detachment of the 42d, under the command of Major Macpherson, had

been sent down from Devonport to perform the ceremony of handing

over the monument to the custody of the Duke of Athole, and also to

place over it the colours under which the regiment had fought on

many a bloody field. In the vestibule of the cathedral were the Duke

and Duchess of Athole, the Duchess Dowager of Athole, and many other

distinguished persons.

Upon entering the vestibule, Major Macpherson, younger of Cluny,

placed the old colours of the regiment over the monument. He then

requested the Duchess-Dowager to unveil the monument; which having

been done,

Major Macpherson said--May it please your Grace, ladies, and

gentlemen--We, a detachment of the 42d Royal Highlanders, have

come here to deposit the old colours of the regiment in Dunkeld

Cathedral--a place which has been selected by the regiment as the

most fitting receptacle for the colours of the 42d--a regiment which

has been essentially connected with Perthshire. In the name of the

officers of the regiment, I have to express to his Grace the Duke

of Athole our kindest thanks for the great interest he has taken in

this memorial, which I have had the too great honour to ask the

Duchess-Dowager to unveil; and if I may be allowed, I would express

to your Grace the kindest thanks of the regiment for the great

interest the late Duke of Athole took in this monument.

The Duke of Athole then said--You have this day paid a great

compliment to the county of Perth, and to this district in

particular. By the placing of this beautiful monument in our

cathedral you have enhanced its value, and by placing over it your

time and battle-worn colours. I can assure you we shall value the

possession of this monument excessively, and do our utmost to

preserve it from all harm. I trust that the cloud which is now

hanging over the connection between the 42d and Perthshire will yet

be dispelled, and that the old ties may not be broken, and that we

may yet see the ‘Freiceadan Dubh’ localised in Perth.[363] I need

not allude to the services of the 42d--they are far too well known

to require comment on my part. One of the earliest colonels of the

regiment was one of my own family--Lord John Murray; and at different

times a great many men from Athole have served in your ranks. Members

of almost every large family in Athole have at one time or other been

officers in the corps. Many relatives and friends of my own have

likewise served with the regiment. His Grace concluded by asking

Major Macpherson to convey to the officers of the 42d the thanks of

the county of Perth for the honour they had done to the county.

At the close of the proceedings a salute of 21 guns was fired from a

battery placed on Stanley Hill.

After the ceremony the Duchess-Dowager entertained a select party

at her residence to lunch. The detachment of the 42d and the Athole

Highlanders at the same time partook of dinner in the Servants’ Hall.

When the dinner had been concluded, the Duchess-Dowager, the Duke

and Duchess of Athole, and party, entered the Servants’ Hall, where

the Dowager-Duchess proposed the health of the 42d, a detachment

of which regiment had come such a long distance in order to place

their beautiful colours in the Cathedral of Dunkeld. Her Grace having

made a touching allusion to the various battles in which the colours

had been borne, remarked that there was no better place where the

regiment could lodge them than the old historical cathedral of the

city where the corps was chiefly raised. The colours had been given

in charge to the Athole Highlanders, and she was sure that they would

be as proud to look upon them hanging on the walls of the Cathedral

as the 42d themselves would be to see them in the midst of battle,

and she might assure the detachment that the utmost care would be

taken of them.

Major Macpherson returned thanks on behalf of the officers and men

of the 42d. He stated that the officers had taken a vote as to

where the colours should be lodged, and the majority were in favour

of having them placed over this monument in Dunkeld Cathedral, on

the banks of the Tay, where the regiment was originally formed. He

begged, on behalf of the officers and men, to thank her Grace for the

exceedingly kind reception which had been accorded to them during

their stay in Dunkeld, and concluded by calling upon the men to drink

to the health of the Duchess-Dowager of Athole. The original colours

of the 42d are in the Tower of London.

The colours placed in Dunkeld Cathedral were carried through the

Crimean campaign and the Indian Mutiny. The colours which the

regiment presently possesses were presented by the Commander-in-Chief

at Aldershot in 1871.

In the autumnal manœuvres of 1871, the Black Watch, as might be

surmised, performed their part brilliantly, and to the satisfaction

and gratification of all present, the foreign officers especially

awarding them the palm as models in every respect of what soldiers

ought to be; indeed, their praises were in the mouths of all.

In September 1871 the regiment went to Devonport; and when, in

February 1873, in accordance with the scheme for the establishment

of military centres, the 42d were allocated to Perth in conjunction

with the 79th, we believe both corps felt the greatest gratification,

as they had stood “shoulder to shoulder” in many a hard-fought field,

always indeed in the same brigade--in Egypt, the Peninsula, Waterloo,

the Crimea, and last of all in the Indian Mutiny.

We cannot help expressing our gratification at being able to present

our readers with a group of authentic steel portraits of four of the

most eminent Colonels of the Black Watch. That of the first Colonel,

John, Earl of Crawford, is from the original in the possession of

the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, at Haigh Hall, Wigan. The Earl

is represented in a Russian or Hungarian dress. That of Sir George

Murray, so long and intimately associated with the regiment, is

from an original painting by H. W. Pickersgill, R.A. The portrait

of Sir John Macdonald, his successor, is taken from the original in

possession of Mrs Burt, Edinburgh: And that of the present brave

and much respected Colonel, Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron, from a

photograph taken expressly for this work; and Sir Duncan’s modest

reluctance, we ought to say, to allow his portrait to be published,

was not easily overcome.

Here may we fitly end the story of the brave Black Watch, which

nearly a century and a half ago was originated not far from Perth

by the chivalry of the North. In these later days of rapid advance

in military science, when the blind enthusiasm of our forefathers

is spoken lightly of, have the highest military authorities come to

the conclusion, after much discussion and cogitation, that it is

wise after all to give way occasionally to sentiment; and thus have

they been led to assign to the old Black Watch, after a glorious but

chequered career, a permanent recruiting home in the country of its

birth, not many miles from the spot where it was first embodied.

SUCCESSION LISTS OF COLONELS, FIELD AND STAFF OFFICERS, &c.

COLONELS.

John, Earl of Crawford, 25th October 1739.

Hugh Lord Sempill, 14th January 1741.

Lord John Murray, 25th April 1745.

Sir Hector Munro, K.B., 1st June 1787.

George, Marquis of Huntly, 3d January 1806.

John, Earl of Hopetoun, G.C.B., 29th January 1820.

The Right Hon. Sir George Murray, G.C.B., G.C.H., 6th September 1823.

Removed to the First, or the Royal Regiment of Foot, on the

29th December 1843.

Sir John Macdonald, K.C.B., 15th January 1844.

Died 28th March 1850.

Sir James Douglas, K.C.B., 10th April 1850.

Died 6th March 1862.

George, Marquis of Tweeddale, K.T., 7th March 1862.

Removed to 2d Life Guards 9th September 1863.

Major General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron, K.C.B., 9th September

1863.

Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron, K.C.B., joined the Regiment in 1825

as Ensign, and has never served in any other.--He was appointed

Brigadier in

Turkey, (local rank) on the 24th October 1854.

Major-General, (local) 5th October 1855.

Major-General, (local) in England, 24th July 1856.

Major-General, 25th March 1859.

Colonel of the 42d, 9th Sept. 1863.

Lieutenant-General, 1st May 1868.

He served throughout the Eastern campaign of 1854-1855; commanded

the regiment at the battle of Alma, and the Highland Brigade at the

battle of Balaklava, on the expedition to Kertch--Siege and fall

of Sebastopol and assault on the outworks 18th June--Was appointed

president of the Council of Education in 1857--Commander-in-chief in

Scotland in 1860--Commander of the forces in New Zealand, with the

local rank of Lieut.-General 1861, and of the Australian Colonies

and New Zealand in 1863--Governor of The Royal Military College at

Sandhurst in 1865, which he still holds (1873).

LIEUTENANT-COLONELS.

Sir Robert Munro, 25th October 1739.

Promoted to Colonelcy Ponsonby’s Regiment, 17th June 1745.

John Monroe, 17th July 1745.

Died in 1749.

John Campbell, 24th May 1749.

Promoted to Colonelcy of 56th Foot, 23d December 1755.

Francis Grant, 17th December 1755.

Promoted to be Colonel-Commandant of 90th Regiment, 19th

February 1762.

Gordon Graham, 9th July 1762.

Retired 12th December 1770.

Thomas Græme, 12th December 1770.

Retired 7th September 1771.

Thomas Stirling, 7th September 1771.

Promoted to 71st Regiment, 13th February 1782.

Norman Macleod, 21st March 1780.

Removed to 73d in 1786, which regiment was formed from second

battalion of the 42d Regiment.

Charles Graham, 28th April 1782.

Promoted to a regiment serving in the West Indies, 30th

November 1796.

William Dickson, 1st September 1795.

Retired 3d March 1808.

James Stewart, 14th December 1796.

Retired 19th September 1804.

James Stirling, 7th September 1804.

Promoted to rank of Major-General, 4th June 1814.

Robert Lord Blantyre, 19th September 1804.

Exchanged to half-pay, late Eighth Garrison Battalion, 6th

May 1813.

John Farquharson, 3d March 1808.

Retired 16th April 1812.

Robert Macara, 16th April 1812.

Killed in action, 16th June 1815.

Sir George Leith, Bart, 6th May 1813.

Placed on Half-pay, 25th December 1814.

Robert Henry Dick, 18th June 1815.

Exchanged to Half-pay, 25th November 1828.

Honourable Sir Charles Gordon, 25th November 1828.

William Middleton, 23d October 1835.

George Johnstone, 23d August 1839.

Henry Earl of Uxbridge, 5th September 1843.

Duncan Alexander Cameron, 5th September 1843.

James Macdougall, 14th April 1846.

Charles Dunsmure, 15th February 1850.

Thomas Tulloch, 9th March 1855.

Alexander Cameron, 9th October 1855.

George Edward Thorold, 28th July 1857.

Frederick Green Wilkinson, 5th March 1858.

Edward Ramsden Priestley, 10th August 1858.

John Chetham M’Leod, 26th March 1868.

The Lieut.-Colonels from 1815 are also included in the general

alphabetical list.

MAJORS.

George Grant, 25th October 1739.

Died in 1742.

James Colquhoun, 24th June 1742.

Retired in 1745.

Francis Grant, 1st October 1745.

Promoted December 17, 1755.

Duncan Campbell, 17th December 1755.

Killed at Ticonderoga.

Gordon Graham, 17th July 1758.

Promoted July 9, 1762.

John Reid, 1st August 1759.

Exchanged to half-pay, February 10, 1770.

John M’Neil, 9th July 1762.

Died in 1762.

Allan Campbell, 15th August 1762.

Placed on half-pay on the reduction of the regiment, March

18, 1763.

John Murray, 10th February 1770.

Retired March 31, 1770.

Thomas Græme, 31st March 1770.

Promoted December 12, 1770.

Thomas Stirling, 12th December 1770.

Promoted September 7, 1771.

William Murray, 7th September 1771.

Promoted to Twenty-seventh Regiment, October 5, 1777.

William Grant, 5th October 1777.

Retired August 25, 1778.

Charles Graham, 25th August 1778.

Promoted April 28, 1782.

Patrick Graham, 21st March 1780.

Died October 22, 1781.

Walter Home, 28th April 1782.

Retired March 16, 1791.

John Campbell, 23d October 1781.

Died March 23, 1784.

Hay Macdowall, 24th March 1784.

Removed in 1786 to Seventy-third, which corps was formed from

second battalion Forty-second Regiment.

George Dalrymple, 16th March 1791.

Promoted to Nineteenth Foot, December 31, 1794.

William Dickson, 14th January 1795.

Promoted September 1, 1795.

Robert Pigot Christie, 1st September 1795.

Died June 23, 1796.

William Munro, 2d September 1795.

Promoted to Caithness Legion Fencibles, October 21, 1795.

James Stewart, 21st October 1795.

Promoted December 14, 1796.

Alexander Stewart, 24th June 1796.

Retired September 7, 1804.

James Stirling, 14th December 1796.

Promoted September 7, 1804.

John Farquharson, 9th July 1803.

Promoted March 3, 1808.

Archibald Argyll Campbell, 9th July 1803.

Died in February 1809.

Charles Macquarie, 7th September 1804.

Retired May 2, 1811.

James Grant, 7th September 1804.

Retired November 14, 1805.

Robert Macara, 14th November 1805.

Promoted April 16, 1812.

Thomas Johnston, 3d March 1808.

Exchanged to half-pay, Bradshaw’s Levy, July 14, 1808.

Robert Henry Dick, 14th July 1808.

Promoted June 18, 1815.

Hamilton Rose, 9th February 1809.

Died in October 1811.

William Munro, 2d May 1811.

Exchanged to half-pay, Royal Regiment of Malta, May 30, 1811.

William Cowell, 30th May 1811.

Retired April 8, 1826.

Maxwell Grant, 10th October 1811.

Placed on half-pay, December 25, 1814.

Robert Anstruther, 16th April 1812.

Placed on half-pay, December 25, 1814.

Archibald Menzies, 18th June 1815.

James Brander, 8th April 1826.

William Middleton, 15th August 1826.

John Malcolm, 25th December 1828.

Hugh Andrew Fraser, 3d December 1829.

George Johnstone, 4th May 1832.

James Macdougall, 23d October 1835.

Duncan Alexander Cameron, 23d August 1839.

Charles Dunsmure, 5th September 1843.

Daniel Frazer, 14th April 1846.

George Burell Cumberland, 15th February 1850.

Thomas Tulloch, 20th May 1853.

John Cameron Macpherson, 29th December 1854.

The Honourable Robert Rollo, 5th January 1855.

Alexander Cameron, 24th April 1855.

Charles Murray, 10th August 1855.

Frederick Green Wilkinson, 9th October 1855.

Andrew Pitcairn, 12th September 1856.

Edward Ramsden Priestley, 17th July 1857.

John Chetham M’Leod, 16th March 1858.

John Drysdale, 10th August 1858.

Duncan Macpherson, 5th July 1865.

Francis Cunningham Scott, 26th March 1868.

The Majors from 1815 are also included in the alphabetical list.

PAYMASTERS.

John Home, 21st March 1800--the first appointment of that rank to

the Regiment.

Alexander Aitken, 25th December 1818.

Charles Wardell, 22d February 1821.

Stephen Blake, 3d July 1828.

William A. M’Dougall, 23d August 1833.

John Wheatley, 12th October 1838.

James A. Bazalgette, 24th April 1855.

Frank Samwell, 15th Dec. 1869.

ADJUTANTS.

Gilbert Stewart, 25th October 1739.

Lieut. James Grant, 26th June 1751.

“ Alexander Donaldson, 20th March 1759.

“ John Gregor, 27th August 1760.

“ William Gregor, 22d October 1761.

“ Duncan Cameron, 6th October 1762.

“ John M’Intosh, 1st November 1768.

“ Hugh Fraser, 20th March 1776.

“ Robert Leslie, (2d Battalion), 21st March 1780.

“ John Farquharson, 6th April 1791.

“ John Fraser, 5th October 1795.

“ Simon Fraser, 21st March 1800.

“ James Walker, 5th April 1801.

“ Archibald Menzies, 9th July 1803.

“ James Hunter, 28th September 1804.

“ James Swanson, 6th June 1805.

“ John Innes (Killed at Orthes), 8th December 1808.

“ James White, 8th June 1809.

“ Colin M’Dougall, 13th February 1812.

Lieutenant James Young, from 18th March 1814.

Lieutenant James Robertson, 14th September 1815.

Ensign (from Sergeant Major) William Duff, 14th April 1825.

Lieutenant William Dick Macfarlane, 16th July 1829.

Ensign (from Acting Sergeant-Major) John Wheatley, 20th July 1832.

Ensign Duncan Cameron, 30th October 1838.

Lieut. Atholl Wentworth Macdonald, 8th May 1840.

Lieut. Archibald Colin Campbell, 31st March 1843.

Lieut. Thomas Robert Drummond Hay, 24th January 1845.

Lieutenant Andrew Pitcairn, 28th August 1846.

Lieut. William John Cunninghame, 9th March 1849.

Ensign John Drysdale, 25th June 1852.

Ensign (from Quarter-Master) William Wood, 16th February 1855.

Lieutenant James Edmund Christie, 4th May 1863.

Andrew Gilbert Wauchope, 5th April 1870.

The Adjutants from 1814 are also included in the alphabetical list.

QUARTERMASTERS FROM 1795.

David Rawlins, 5th October 1795.

Donald M’Intosh, 9th July 1803.

Finlay King, from Sergt. Major, 31st December 1818.

Edward Patou, from Quarter-Master Sergt., 19th June 1840.

Charles Fraser, from Ensign, 28th August 1846.

William Wood, from Sergeant-Major, 5th May 1854.

Alexander M’Gregor, from Quarter-Master Sergeant, 25th May 1855.

John Simpson, V.C. from Quarter-Master Sergeant, 7th October 1859.

All, with the exception of the first, are included in the general

alphabetical list.

SUCCESSION OF SURGEONS FROM 1800.

Alexander Grant, 26th September 1795.

Swinton Macleod, 9th July 1803.

Brinsley Nicholson, M.D., 15th November 1829.

James Paterson, M.D. 19th June 1835.

James M’Gregor, 26th February 1841.

John Gillespie Wood, M.D. 12th March 1852.

John Sheldon Furlong, M.D. 9th February 1855.

James Edmund Clutterbuck, M.D. 14th June 1864.

All, with the exception of the first, are included in the general

alphabetical list.

SUCCESSION OF SERGEANT-MAJORS.

Sergeant-Major James, was killed in action at Toulouse, 10th April

1814.

Sergeant-Major Perie, was killed in action at Quatre Bras

(Waterloo), on the 16th June 1815.

Finlay King, 16th June 1815, to Quarter-Master, 1818.

William Duff, 31st December 1818, to Adjutant, 1825.

John Macdonald, 14th April 1825. Discharged to pension, 10th

December 1834. Died the following year.

John Wheatley, appointed Acting, on the 15th November 1827; at the

regiment (the Sergeant-Major being at the Depot), to Adjutant,

1832.

Thomas Penny, acting with service companies, from 20th July

1832--Sergeant-Major, 11th December 1834. Discharged to Pension

1839. Died at Glasgow 15th February 1865.

Charles Fraser, 12th December 1839, to Ensign, 1843.

Alexander Geddes, appointed to Reserve Battalion 1st April 1843.

Discharged to Pension 22d October 1851--appointed Quarter-Master

of the Perth Militia 22d November 1856.

John Drysdale, 5th September 1843, to Ensign, 1847.

James Ranken, 22d June 1847. Discharged to Pension 10th November

1853. Quarter-Master Argyll Militia 14th April 1869.

William Wood, 11th November 1853, to Quarter-Master, 1854.

John Wilson, 5th May 1854, to Ensign, 1854.

William Lawson, 10th August 1854, to Ensign, 1854.

John Granger, 18th January 1855, to Lieutenant Land Transport

Corps, 1855.

Peter White, 7th September 1855. Discharged to Pension 25th July

1865.

John Forbes, 26th July 1865.

The Sergeant-Majors who were promoted to be Officers are included in

the general alphabetical list.

LIST OF OFFICERS

_Who have served in the 42d Royal Highlanders, “The Black Watch,”

from the date of the Muster taken at Armagh on the 28th of May

1817, the day of marching in from Glasgow, for the period ended

on the 24th of May up to the 31st of December 1872._[364] From

Lieut.-Colonel Wheatley’s MS.

Abercromby, Samuel Douglas, Lieut.--3d June 1842, Ensign. Died at

Bermuda 16th May 1847.

Ainslie, Montague, Ensign, 20th May 1843. Died at Gosport, 18th Oct.

1853.

Aitken, Alex., Paymaster, 25th Dec. 1818.--Half-pay 7th February

1821. Died at Brighton, 13th May 1871.

Aitken, Walker, Lieut.--3d Dec. 1861, Ensign--Lieut. 19th Dec. 1865.

Alexander, Sir James Edward, Major-General.--9th March 1832,

Captain--Half-Pay 24th April 1838.

Allan, Fife, Ensign 23d Sept. 1855. Retired 12th Dec. 1856.

Baird, William, Bt.-Major.--17th Nov. 1854, Ensign--Captain 22d May

1857--Bt.-Major 5th July 1872.

Balfour, James William, Captain.--2nd March 1847, Ensign. On

Reduction to 89th, Lieut. Retired Captain from 7th Dragoon Guards

16th June 1857.

Balguy, Charles Yelverton.--24th Feb. 1854, Captain from 41st.

Retired 24th April 1855.

Barnett, John Osborne, Lieut.--16th Nov. 1841, Ensign. Retired 12th

Nov. 1847.

Bayly, Richard Kerr, Captain.--16th Mar. 1855, Ensign--Captain 5th

July 1865.

Bazalgette, James Arnold.--24th April 1855,

Paymaster.--Half-pay--1869.

Beales, William, Lieut.-Colonel.--24th April 1838, Captain--To

Half-Pay 30th August 1844, Captain. Died at St Heliers, Jersey, on

retired full pay, 23d April 1868.

Bedingfield, William.--9th Dec. 1862, Ensign from 58th Regiment--To

7th Hussars, Cornet, 22d Nov. 1864.

Bennett, William Henry.--27th May 1853, Lieut. from 30th Regiment.

Retired 11th May 1855.

Berwick, William Alex., Lieut.--17th Feb. 1869, Ensign from 16th

Foot.--Lieut. 28th Oct. 1871.

Bethune, Alex, (of Blebo), Lieut.--20th May 1842, Ensign. Retired 2d

March 1847.

Black, Wilsone, Major.--11th August 1854, Ensign--Half-pay on

reduction, 9th Jan. 1857--To 6th Foot 17th Nov. 1857--Brevet-Major

14th April 1873.

Blake, Stephen, Paymaster.--3d July 1828, Paymaster--Exchanged to

7th Fusiliers 23d Aug. 1833. Died Paymaster of the 93d at Dublin,

5th Oct. 1848.

Borrowes, Peter Robert.--2d Sept. 1845, Lieut, from 13th Foot.

Retired 16th June 1848. Died in Dublin 1854.

Bosworth, Percie Mackie, Lieut.--23d March 1855, Ensign--Lieut. 2d

Oct. 1855. Died at Nynee, India, 19th June 1858.

Boyle, Robert, Captain.--5th April 1806, Ensign--Half-Pay 31st May

1821. Died in London 11th July 1821.

Bramly, Alfred Jennings, Lieut.--15th March 1855, Ensign--Lieut. 2d

Oct. 1855. Killed in action at Rooyah, India, 15th April 1858.

Bramly, Henry Jennings, Lieut.--30th Dec. 1859, Ensign. Retired

Lieut. 3d March 1865. Died at Tunbridge Wells 19th Feb. 1870.

Brander, James, Major.--14th Dec. 1809, Ensign--To Half-pay,

Lieut.-Colonel, 15th Aug. 1826. Died at Pitgaveny House, Elgin, 23d

March 1854.

Brereton, Robert, Captain.--8th Dec. 1825, Captain, to Half-pay 9th

March 1832. Retired 12th May 1842.--Dead.

Brickenden, Richard H. Lambert, Lieut.--18th July

1865, Ensign--Lieut. 11th Jan. 1867.

Brooke, Henry, Ensign.--5th Aug. 1859. Retired 9th Dec. 1862.

Brophy, N. Winsland, Lieut.--30th Jan. 1866, Ensign from 6th

Regiment--Lieut. 17th March 1869.

Cameron, Alexander, Lieut.-Colonel.--24th Feb. 1832, Ensign. Died

Lieut.-Colonel Commanding at Bareilly, India, 9th Aug. 1858.

Cameron, Duncan (of Inverailort), Lieut.--23d Oct. 1835, Ensign.

Retired 8th May 1840.

Cameron, Sir Duncan Alexander, Lieut.-General.--8th April 1825,

Ensign--In the Regiment until promoted to Major-General in

1855--Colonel of the Regiment 9th Sept. 1863.

Cameron, Wm. Gordon, C.B., Colonel.--24th May 1844, Ensign--To

Grenadier Guards, Lieut. 12th May 1847--4th Foot, Major, 23d Oct.

1857--Lieut.-Colonel 1st April 1873.

Campbell, Archibald (of Glendaruel), Captain.--26th Nov. 1825,

Ensign. Retired Captain 6th March 1840.

Campbell, Arch. Colin (Renton), Brevet-Major.--24th Feb. 1837,

Ensign. Retired Captain and Brevet-Major 7th Sept. 1855. Died at

Mordington House, Berwickshire, 23d Nov. 1866.

Campbell, Colin (Southhall family), Lieut.--8th April 1826, Ensign.

Retired Lieut. 27th Sept. 1839. Died at Auchan, Isle of Man, 10th

Oct. 1859.

Campbell, Colin George (of Stonefield), Lieut.--31st Dec. 1829,

Ensign. Retired Lieut. 24th April 1838.

Campbell, Farquhard (of Aros), Captain.--30th Nov. 1838, Ensign.

Retired Captain 26th Oct. 1849.

Campbell, George Frederick, Lieut.--11th Jan. 1867, Ensign--Lieut.

25th March 1871, to 51st Regiment 31st Oct. 1871.

Campbell, John, Colonel.--3d Dec. 1807, Captain from 35th--Half-pay

Major and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel 22d April 1826. Died at Marseilles,

31st March 1841.

Campbell, John Charles, M. B.--29th March 1861, Assistant-Surgeon,

from 4th Hussars--To Half-pay 2d July 1861.

Campbell, John Gordon, Captain.--17th Nov. 1848. Ensign. Retired 9th

May 1856. Died at Peebles 30th Nov. 1865.

Campbell, Patrick, Captain.--24th Aug. 1815, Ensign--To Half-pay 3d

Sept. 1829. Died at Ford near Dalkeith, 24th Feb. 1856.

Ceely, Arthur James, Lieut.--10th Aug. 1855, Ensign--Lieut. 20th

June 1858. Died at Point de Galle, Ceylon, Sick from India, 29th

Dec. 1866.

Chawner, Edward Hoare, Captain.--9th June 1825, Ensign--Exchanged to

4th Dragoon Guards, Lieut.--Half-pay, Captain, 7th Sept. 1832. Died

23d Nov. 1868.

Childers, William, Captain.--5th June 1826, Captain. Retired 14th

Sept. 1832. Died at St Heliers, Jersey, 28th Feb. 1861.

Chisholm, Arch. Macra, Captain.--17th April 1842, Ensign. Retired

Captain 6th April 1855.

Chisholm, Donald, Captain.--10th Oct. 1805, Lieut. from 30th--To

4th Veteran Battalion, Captain, 24th Feb. 1820. Died at Portobello,

Edinburgh, 21st Aug. 1853.

Christie, James Edmund, Captain.--10th Aug. 1855, Ensign--Captain,

Half-pay 1st April 1870.

Clark, James, Ensign.--26th Aug. 1819, Ensign--To Half-Pay 2d Sept.

1824. Died 12th Dec. 1838.

Clarke, Alfred T. Stafford, M.D. 8th Aug. 1862, Assistant-Surgeon,

from Staff--To Royal Artillery, 20th Sept. 1864.

Clarke, Charles Christopher, Lieut.--2d Aug. 1815, Ensign--To

Half-Pay 1st Nov. 1827. Died in the 33d Regiment in Jamaica, 23d

Sept. 1831.

Clavering, Ernest, F.G. Lieut.--15th April 1842, Ensign. Retired 6th

July 1849. Died in Edinburgh 9th Aug. 1852.

Clutterbuck, James Edward, M.D.--14th June 1864, Surgeon from

Staff--Surgeon-Major, 22d Dec. 1868.

Cockburn, George William, Captain.--23d Feb. 1855, Ensign--Captain

24th March 1863--Exchanged to 83d, 28th Jan. 1870. Retired 30th Nov.

1870.

Cockburn, Thomas Hugh, Lieut.-Colonel.--6th March 1840,

Ensign--Exchanged Captain to 43d--Half-Pay Major 29th May 1863.

Retired with rank of Lieut.-Colonel 18th April 1865.

Coleridge, Francis George, Captain.--11th Jan. 1856. Ensign--Lieut.

in 25th 13th Dec. 1859. Retired as Captain 28th June 1871.

Colquhoun, Alan John, Lieut.--15th Oct. 1861.--Ensign, from Cornet

16th Lancers--Lieut. 13th Nov. 1865. Retired 23d Jan. 1869.

Cooper, Egbert William, Captain.--From 2d West India Regiment, 30th

July 1869.

Coveny, Robert Charles, Lieut.--2d Sept. 1862, Ensign--from 23d

Regiment, Lieut. 30th Jan. 1866.

Cowell, William, Major from H. P., and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel--30th

May 1811, Major. Retired 8th April 1826. Died at Portarlington,

Ireland, 29th May 1847.

Creagh, A. Michael. Lieut.--16th April 1861, Ensign from

58th--Lieut. 3d March 1865.

Crompton, William Henry, (Now Crompton-Stansfield),

Lieut.-Colonel.--17th Aug. 1854, Ensign--To Half-Pay Captain on

reduction 7th Nov. 1856--11th Foot 9th Jan. 1858--Lieut.-Colonel,

22d July 1871.

Crosse, Robert Legh, 18th June 1861, Ensign.--To 52d, 3d Dec. 1861.

Cumberland, George Bentinck Macleod, Lieut.--22d Nov. 1864,

Ensign--Lieut. 29th Dec. 1866.

Cumberland, George Barrel, Major.--28th May 1829, Lieut. Retired

Major 5th Jan. 1855. Died at Wolvers Dean, Andover, 22d May 1865.

Cumming, Alex. Ensign.--17th July 1814, Ensign--To Half-Pay, 26th

Aug. 1819. Died Jan. 1853.

Cunninghame, Robert Campbell, Captain.--29th Aug. 1846, Ensign. Sent

from the Crimea. Died at Malta, 5th Sept. 1855.

Cunninghame, William John, Lieut.--25th Oct. 1844, Ensign. Died at

Halifax on sick leave from Bermuda, 21st June 1850.

Daniel, John Hinton--22d May 1846, Captain from 49th. Retired 23d

July 1852. Died in London 8th May 1863.

Davidson, Wm. Alex., M.D., Surgeon.--28th March 1854, Assistant

Surgeon--To 1st Royal Dragoons 31st July 1855.

Dawson, Charles, M.D.--9th Oct. 1840, Assistant-Surgeon--To Surgeon

into the 54th, 9th Oct. 1846. Died at Antigua, West Indies, 13th

Nov. 1849.

Dempster, James, M.D., Surgeon.--14th April 1825, Assistant

Surgeon--To 94th Surgeon 27th Sept. 1827.

Dick, Sir Robert Henry, Major-General,--22d Nov. 1800,

Ensign--Half-Pay Colonel, 25th Nov. 1828--Killed in action at

Sobraon, 10th Feb. 1846.

Douglas, Arthur Henry Johnstone--27th Nov. 1866, Ensign. Retired 23d

July 1869.

Douglas, Charles.--23d March 1855, Lieutenant from Canadian Rifles.

Died of wounds at Rooyah, India, 17th April 1858.

Douglas, Henry Sholto, Captain.--31st May 1839, Ensign. Retired

Captain 17th Nov. 1838.

Douglas, Sir James, General.--10th April 1850, Colonel. Died at

Clifton, 6th March 1862.

Douglas, William, Lieut.--1st Nov. 1827, Lieut.--Retired 20th July

1832.--Dead.

Drake, John Allat, 18th July 1865, Lieut.--from Bengal Staff Corps.

Retired 9th Nov. 1866.

Drummond, Henry Maurice, Colonel, (now Drummond Hay) of

Seggieden.--4th Dec. 1832, Ensign.--Retired Captain, 8th June

1852.--Lieut.-Colonel, Royal Perth Rifles, 5th Nov. 1855. Retired

with the rank of Colonel, 21st Nov. 1870.

Drummond, Malcolm, (Viscount Forth), 4th Nov. 1853, Ensign. Retired

17th Nov. 1854. Died at Gloucester 8th Oct. 1861.

Drysdale, John, Brevet Lieut.-Colonel.--Joined the Regiment 28th

June 1836--Ensign from Sergeant-Major, 22d June 1847--Major 10th

Aug. 1858.--Brevet Lieut.-Colonel on the day that he died, viz, 4th

July 1865, at Uphall, near Edinburgh, on sick leave from India.

Duff, William, Lieut.--Joined the Regiment 16th Aug. 1806--Ensign

and Adjutant from Sergeant-Major 14th April 1825.--To Half-pay 16th

July 1829. Died at Ayr 8th Oct. 1833.

Dunbar, Alex., Lieut.--25th July 1807, Ensign,--To Half-pay 3d March

1825. Died at Inverness, 15th Feb. 1832.

Dunbar, Sir Frederick Wm., Bart.--24th April 1838, Ensign. Retired

10th Jan. 1840. Died Dec. 1841

Dunbar, Rothes Lennox, Captain.--13th May 1854, Ensign. Retired

Captain 7th Sept. 1856. Died in London, 31st Jan. 1857.

Dunsmure, Charles, Lieut.-Colonel.--9th April 1825, Ensign--Reduced

Lieut.-Colonel 1st April 1850, with the Reserve Battalion. Retired

8th June 1852.

Dundas, Charles Whitely Dean, Lieut.--25th Dec. 1828, Ensign--To

Coldstream Guards, 3d Aug. 1830. Retired 21st April 1837. Died at

Edinburgh, 11th April 1856.

Eden, Charles John, Lieut.--20th Oct. 1865, Ensign from the

30th--Lieut. 23d March 1867.

Elgin, Edward Arthur, Lieut.--from 17th Foot, 10th July 1860. Died

at Agra, 28th July 1861.

Fairlie, William, Lieut.--22d June 1815, Ensign--Half-pay 10th Sept.

1819. Died 18th May 1824.

Farquharson, Francis Edward Henry, V.C. Captain.--19th Jan. 1855,

Ensign--Captain 28th June 1862.

Feilden, Henry Wemys, Lieut.--1st Feb. 1856, Ensign. Retired Lieut.

27th Sept. 1861.

Ferguson, Adam, Captain.--18th Aug. 1854, Ensign.--Captain 1st May

1857. Died in India, 11th Sept. 1865.

Fergusson, James Muir (of Middlehaugh). Lieut.--9th Nov. 1826,

Ensign. Retired Lieut. 29th May 1839. Died at Perth, 20th May 1867.

Fletcher, Duncan Downie--2d April 1851, Ensign. Retired 6th May

1853. Died at Killarney, 20th May 1855.

Foley, H.R. Stanhope, Lieut.--14th June 1864, Ensign--Lieut. 9th

Nov. 1866. Retired 16th March 1869.

Fraser, Alex., Captain.--26th May 1803, Ensign--Half-Pay 8th Dec.

1825. Died in Edinburgh, 24th June 1835.

Fraser, Charles, Captain.--Joined the Regiment 21st April 1813--From

Sergeant-Major, Ensign 5th Sept. 1843--Quarter-Master, 28th Aug.

1846--Reduced with Reserve Battalion, 1st April 1850, appointed to

49th--To Half-Pay with the rank of Captain.--30th June 1854.

Fraser, George, Captain.--6th July 1849, Ensign. Died in India,

Captain 27th June 1862.

Fraser, The Hon. Henry Thomas, Lieut.-Colonel.--10th April 1858,

Ensign--To Scots Fusilier Guards, 24th June 1859.

Fraser, Hugh Andrew, Major.--25th April 1806, Ensign--Half-pay, 4th

May 1832. Died at Maidstone, Kent, 3d May 1855.

Fraser, William Thomas, Lieut.--1st May 1855, Ensign--Lieut. 14th

Dec. 1855. Retired 9th April 1861.

Frazer, Daniel, Colonel.--27th Dec. 1827, Captain from H. P. Retired

on full-pay, Major and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel. Died Colonel at

Feversham Rectory, Newport Pagnel, Bucks, 12th July 1868.

Frazer, Rowland Aynsworth (son of Col. Daniel Frazer).

Captain.--14th April 1846, Ensign. Killed before Sebastopol, 17th

July 1855.

Furlong, John Sheldon, M.D. Surgeon-Major.--9th Feb. 1855, Surgeon

from 39th--To 6th Dragoons, 14th June 1864.

Furse, George Armand, Captain.--29th March 1855, Ensign.--Captain

12th Sept. 1865.

Fyfe, Laurence, Captain.--10th Oct. 1817, Ensign--Exchanged to 17th

Foot, 10th Aug. 1838. Retired from Half-pay 22d Nov. 1842.

Gartshore, John Murray,(of Ravelston), Captain--7th Dec. 1826.

Retired 30th March 1838.

Gisborne, Henry Francis, Assistant-Surgeon--15th Jan. 1827,

Assistant-Surgeon. Resigned 27th Nov. 1828.

Goldie, Mark Wilkes.--27th Aug. 1844, Captain from 22d. Retired 3d

Nov. 1846.

Gordon, Lord Cecil, Captain.--10th Aug. 1838, Captain from 17th.

Retired 4th Nov. 1841.

Gordon, The Hon. Sir Charles, Lieut.-Colonel.--From H. P. 93d, 25th

Nov. 1828. Died at Geneva, when on leave from Corfu. 30th Sept. 1835.

Gordon, George, Lieut.--20 Feb. 1812, Ensign--Half-pay 30th Dec.

1819. Died at Glasgow, 31st March 1861.

Gordon, Hamilton Douglas.--2d May 1851, Captain from 78th. Died at

Cairo, on his way to join from India, 9th Sept. 1851.

Gordon, Rowland Hill, Captain from Coldstream Guards, 7th Sept.

1855. Retired 30th June 1869.

Graham, Charles Campbell, (now Graham Stirling, of Craigbarnet),

Brevet-Major.--30th Aug. 1841, Ensign. Retired 1st May 1847.

Graham, Thomas, Lieut.-Colonel.--30th April 1827, Lieut.--Half-Pay,

Captain, 9th Aug. 1833. Died Lieut.-Colonel 1st Royal Scots at

Haslar, Gosport, from the Crimea, 29th Oct. 1855. [365] Granger,

John, Captain--Joined the Regiment 21st Dec. 1837.--Promoted

from Sergeant-Major to Lieut, in Land Transport Corps, 1st Oct.

1855--Captain, 1st Feb. 1856, Half-pay, 1st April 1857. Retired in

1860.

Grant, Alexander, Lieut.--16th Oct. 1866, Ensign from 15th

Foot.--Lieut. 22d Oct. 1870. Retired 24th March 1871.

Grant, Edward Birkett, Captain.--14th Nov. 1826, Ensign--To 92d, 22d

March 1827. Retired Captain from 4th Light Dragoons, 13th May 1839.

Died at Hill, near Carlisle, 25th Sep. 1852.

Grant, The Hon. George Henry Essex, Captain.--5th Nov. 1841, Ensign.

Retired Captain, 6th April 1865. Died at Crieff, 31st May 1873.

Grant, The Hon. James, Lieut.--30th March 1838, Ensign. Retired 26th

October 1841.

Grant, John, Lieut.--20th May 1811, Ensign--To Half-pay 24th Aug.

1821. Died 18th June 1827.

Grant, John, (of Glenmoriston), Captain.--8th May 1840, Lieut, from

62d--Exchanged Captain, to 49th 22d May 1846. Retired 23d May 1848.

Died at Moy House, Forres, 17th Aug. 1867.

Grant, William Oliver, Lieut.--29th March 1827, Ensign. Retired

Lieut. 25th Sept. 1835. Died in 1836.

Green, William, Bt.-Major.--16th Jan. 1855, Ensign--Captain 19th

Aug. 1859--Bt.-Major 5th July 1872.

Grogan, Edward George, Lieut.--24th July 1869, Ensign--Lieut. 28th

Oct. 1871.

Grove, J. Charles Ross, Captain.--9th Sept. 1851, Ensign--Half-pay

Captain, 14th June 1864. Retired 16th Oct. 1866.

Guthrie, John (of Guthrie), Lieut.--16th July 1829, Lieut.--Half-pay

15th June 1832. Retired 19th July 1836.

Guthrie, William, Captain.--21st March 1827, Lieut.--To Half-pay

Captain, 10th August 1847.

Haldane, Edward, Orlando.--30th June 1863, Lieut. from H. P. 14th

Hussars. Retired 23d Nov. 1865.

Halkett, Sir P. Arthur, of Pitfirrane, Bart., Captain.--20th May

1853, Ensign from 71st, exchanged Captain to 3d Light Dragoons 8th

Jan. 1856. Retired 21st May 1858.

Hamilton, Alex. Thomas, Lieut.--18th August 1869, Ensign--Lieut.

28th October 1871. Retired 26th March 1873.

Harrison, James Compson, Lieut.--23d Nov. 1867, Ensign from

73d--Lieut. 28th Oct. 1871. Retired 22d April 1873.

Harvey, John, E. A.--31st Oct. 1871, Lieut. from 51st.

Hay, T. R. Drummond, Lieut.-Colonel.--2d August 1839,

Ensign--Exchanged Captain to 78th--To Half-pay 2d Feb. 1864.

Haynes, Jonathan Wynyard, Captain.--25th May 1855, Ensign--Captain

10th July 1866--Exchanged to 2d West India Regiment, 30th July 1869.

Hesketh, Wm. Pemberton, Lieut.--9th March 1855, Ensign--Lieut. 6th

Sept. 1855--To 18th Hussars 16th March 1858. Retired 7th Nov. 1862.

Hicks, Edward Percy, Lieut.--24th May 1861--Ensign 12th Sept. 1865.

Hill, Harcourt, Lieut.--10th Feb. 1825, Ensign--Half-pay 28th May

1829. Dead.

Hill, Marcus, Lieut.--7th June 1854, Ensign--Resigned 23d March 1855.

Hogarth, George, Lieut.-Colonel.--4th Nov. 1819, Ensign--Lieut. H.

P. 13th Sept. 1821. Died Major and Brevet. Lieut.-Colonel in the

26th Regiment at Quebec, 25th July 1854.

Home, John, Paymaster.--21st March 1800, Paymaster--Half-pay 20th

December 1818. Died at Eskbank, near Dalkeith, 14th April 1849.

Hooper, Alfred, Surgeon.--31st July 1857, Assistant Surgeon from

Staff--To Staff Corps in India, 1st Sept. 1865--Surgeon 10th July

1866.

Hopetoun, John, Earl of, General.--29th Jan. 1820, Colonel. Died

27th August 1823.

Hulse, Samuel George.--3d March 1865, Ensign. Retired 11th Dec. 1866.

Hunter, James, Captain.--17th Nov. 1837, Ensign--Exchanged to 13th

Foot, Lieut., 2d Sept. 1845. Died Staff Officer of Pensioners at

Chester, 26th March 1860.

Inglis, Abraham, Lieut.--15th August 1826, Ensign--Retired Lieut.

15th Jan. 1833.

Jackson, Adam Thomas, M.D., Surgeon Major.--15th Feb. 1833,

Assistant-Surgeon--To Staff 5th May 1837. Died at Athlone,

Surgeon-Major Depot Battalion, 1st May 1860.

James, Thomas Mansfield, Lieut.--11th May 1855, Ensign--Lieut. 22d

Nov. 1855. Died at Almorah, India, 26th Sept. 1860.

James, William, Lieut.--30th March 1855, Ensign.--Lieut. 16th April

1858. Retired 19th Dec. 1865.

Jervoise, Henry Clark, Lieut.-Colonel.--8th April 1853 Lieut. from

23d--Exchanged to Coldstream Guards Captain, 7th Sept. 1855.

Johnstone, George, Lieut.-Colonel.--From H. P. Late of the Grenadier

Guards--4th May 1832, Major--To Half-pay from Lieut.-Colonel

Commanding, 5th Sept. 1843.

Johnstone, Wm. James Hope (Yr. of Annandale), Lieut.--16th March

1838, Ensign. Retired 16th May 1840. Died at Annandale, 17th March

1850.

Kauntze, George, E. F. Major.--8th June 1856 Captain from 3d Light

Dragoons--To Half-pay on reduction 7th Nov. 1856--To 7th Dragoon

Guards. Retired Major 1867.

Kellet, Robert J. Napier, Captain.--3d Sept. 1829, Captain--To

Half-pay 24th Feb. 1837. Retired 19th Oct. 1838. Died at Florence 2d

Nov. 1853.

Kerr, Lord Charles Lennox, Captain.--1st Sept. 1837,

Lieut.--Half-pay Captain 23d August 1844. Retired 10th Dec. 1848.

Kidston, Alex. Ferrier, Captain--9th Nov. 1858, Ensign--Captain 12th

Feb. 1873.

King, Finlay. Joined the Regiment in 1803.--31st Dec. 1818, from

Sergeant-Major promoted to Quarter-Master--Half-pay 19th June 1840.

Died at Guernsey, 7th November 1842.

King, Robert Henry (son of the Quarter-Master).--18th August 1848,

Assistant-Surgeon--To Staff 16th July 1852. Died in Canada 31st July

1853.

Kinloch, Thomas, Captain.--14th Sept. 1832, Ensign--Retired 25th

Oct. 1844. Died at Logie, Perthshire, 6th Dec. 1848.

Lawson, William, Captain.--Joined the Regiment 29th Sept.

1837--Promoted to Ensign from Sergeant-Major, 5th Nov. 1854--Captain

10th August 1858. Died from wounds received in action, 19th August

1858.

Leith, T. Augustus Forbes.--18th Nov. 1854. Resigned 23d March 1855.

Leslie, John, Captain.--20th July 1815, Ensign--To Half-pay 9th

March 1838. Died at Aberdeen 25th Dec. 1845.

M’Dakin, S. Gordon, Lieut.--23d Oct. 1855, Ensign--Lieut. 24th May

1861--To 19th Foot 5th Nov. 1861--Half-pay 22d Dec. 1863.

Macdonald, Atholl Wentworth, Captain.--9th August 1833, Ensign.

Retired Captain 6th Dec. 1844. Died in the Pavilion Floriana Malta,

with the Regiment, 27th February 1845.

Macdonald, Charles Kerr, Brevet-Major.--15th May 1823,

Ensign--Half-pay Captain, 7th Nov. 1826. Died at Alexandria in

Egypt, 17th Oct. 1867.

M’Donald, Donald, Captain.--16th August 1803, Ensign--Half-pay 27th

May 1819. Died at Musselburgh 24th Sept. 1865.

Macdonald, Sir John, Lieut.-General.--15th Jan. 1844, Colonel. Died

in London 28th March 1850.

M’Donald, Ranald, Ensign.--10th August 1815--Half-pay 8th July 1819.

Cashiered from 3d Foot 31st July 1828.

Macdonald, Robert Douglas, Captain.--11th July 1822, Ensign.

Exchanged to 94th 15th June 1838. Died Barrack-Master at Dover, 9th

Feb. 1860.

Macdougall, James, Lieut.-Colonel.--From H. P. 23d, 30th Dec. 1819,

Lieut. Retired from Lieut.-Colonel Commanding the Reserve Battalion,

15th Feb. 1850.

M’Dougall, Kenneth, Lieut.--6th March 1809, Ensign. Retired 9th Nov.

1826. Died in the Island of Skye, 1827.

M’Dougall, William Adair, Paymaster--23d August 1833.--To Half-pay

1st Oct. 1838. Died at Guernsey 27th Jan. 1841.

M’Duff, John, Major-General.--7th April 1825, Ensign--from Half-pay;

Lieut. 40th Regiment 26th June 1827--Major-General 23d Oct. 1863.

Died at New-miln Stanley, Perthshire, 25th September 1865.

Macfarlane, Victor, Ensign.--2d October 1855.--Superseded for

absence without leave, 29th July 1856.

Macfarlane, Wm. Dick (of Donavourd), Captain.--10th Sept. 1825,

Ensign--Half-pay Captain 16th Nov. 1832. Retired from 92d 15th Jan.

1836. Died at Perth 3d Feb. 1838.

M’Gregor, Alexander.--Joined the Regiment 13th March 1833.--Promoted

to Quarter-Master from Quarter-Master Sergeant 25th May 1855--To a

Depot Battalion, 30th August 1859--To Half-pay with rank of Captain,

from 98th Regiment 1st August 1868.

M’Gregor, Alex. Edgar, Captain.--18th June 1852 Lieut, from 93d.

Died Captain in the 31st at Hong-Kong, 12th August 1860.

M’Gregor, James (of Fonab), Dep. Inspector General.--12th April

1826, Assistant-Surgeon--To Staff Surgeon 1st class 12th March

1852--To Half-pay, 7th Dec. 1858.

M’Gregor, James, M.D.--12th March 1841, Assistant-Surgeon--To Staff

22d Nov. 1842.

M’Intosh, Daniel, Captain.--4th June 1805, Lieut. Retired 24th

October 1821. Died at Hamilton 13th March 1830.

M’Intosh, Donald, Quarter-Master.--Joined the Regiment, not

known--9th July 1803, Quarter-Master--Half-pay 30th Dec. 1818. Died

at Perth 30th July 1829.

M’Intosh, William Henry.--27th Oct. 1846,

Assistant-Surgeon.--Resigned 18th August 1848.

M’Iver, George, Captain.--31st March 1814, Ensign--To Half-pay 5th

April 1839. Died July 1845.

M’Kay, Donald, Captain.--25th Jan. 1810, Ensign. Died at the

Regimental Depot, Stirling, 13th Feb. 1832.

Mackie, Hugh, 7th August 1846, Surgeon.--To Staff 1st April 1850.

Died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 10th April 1858.

M’Kenzie, Donald, Captain.--23d July 1807, Lieut. Retired 13th Sept.

1821. Died in Edinburgh 5th Dec. 1838.

M’Kenzie, Thomas, Captain.--8th Feb. 1856, Ensign. Exchanged to 78th

23d Oct. 1857.

M’Kinnon, Wm. Alex., C.B., Surgeon-Major.--24th March 1854,

Assistant-Surgeon from the Staff--To 57th Surgeon 28th Jan. 1862.

Maclachlan, James.--16th April 1842, Ensign. Resigned 24th May 1844.

M’Laine, Murdoch, Brevet-Major.--18th Jan. 1800, Ensign. Died 12th

Dec. 1822.

M’Laren, Charles, Lieut.--2d June 1808, Lieut.--Half-pay 25th June

1817. Died in London 13th March 1818.

M’Lean, Alex., Surgeon.--7th Sept. 1854, Assistant-Surgeon--To Royal

Artillery 8th Nov. 1861.

Macleod, Arthur Lyttleton, Captain.--12th Dec. 1822,

Ensign--Half-pay Lieut, 9th June 1825. Retired from 86th 12th March

1841. Nothing more known of him.

M’Leod, John Chetham, C.B., Colonel.--21st April 1846, Ensign--now

(1873) in command of the Regiment.

M’Leod, Murdoch, Captain.--20th Feb. 1855, Ensign--Captain 24th May

1861. Retired 17th August 1869.

Macleod, Swinton, Dep.-Inspec.-General.--25th June 1801,

Assistant-Surgeon--Half-pay 5th Nov. 1829. Died in London 27th Dec.

1847.

Macnish, Wm. Lear, Lieut.--28th August 1846, Ensign--Exchanged to

93d, Lieut. 18th June 1852. Drowned at Scutari, Turkey, 19th May

1854.

Macpherson, Andrew Kennedy, Lieut.--19th Dec. 1865, Ensign--To 17th

Foot 16th Feb. 1869. Lieut. Bengal Staff Corps 14th Dec. 1869.

Macpherson, Donald, Surgeon.--1st June 1809, Assistant-Surgeon--To

half-pay from 62d 24th July 1835. Died at Chatham, 25th June 1839.

Macpherson, Duncan (Younger of Cluny), Major.--25th June 1852,

Ensign--Major 5th July 1865.

Macpherson, Ewen (of Cluny), 15th June 1830, Captain.--Half-pay 14th

June 1833. Retired 16th July 1841.

Macpherson, John Cameron, Lieut.-Colonel.--10th September 1830,

Ensign--To full-pay Major, with rank of Lieut.-Colonel 24th April

1855. Died at Stirling, 23d April 1873.

Macpherson, Mungo, Major.--4th Nov. 1800, Ensign--Half-pay Major

18th May 1826. Died at Hastings 26th Nov. 1844.

Macquarie, George W., Captain.--25th Sept., Ensign--Exchanged to

63d--Captain 21st Jan. 1853. Retired 7th Sept. 1855.

Maginn, Daniel Wedgworth, Assistant-Surgeon 27th Nov. 1828.

Exchanged to Staff 15th Feb. 1833. Died at Chatham 20th March 1834.

Maitland, Charles.--12th Nov. 1847, Ensign. Died at Bermuda 21st

April 1851.

Maitland, George Thomas, Lieut.--9th April 1861, Ensign--Lieut. 5th

July 1865--To Bengal Staff Corps 2d March 1866.

Malcolm, John, Major.--19th Feb. 1807, Ensign. Died at Cork,

returning home on sick leave from Gibraltar 14th Nov. 1829.

Malcolm, John, Ensign.--6th Jan. 1814, Ensign--To Half-pay 4th Nov.

1819. Died 8th Sept. 1835.

Menzies, Archd., Major.--25th September 1800, Ensign--Retired Major

25th Dec. 1828. Died at Avondale, near Falkirk, 11th July 1854.

Menzies, Gilbert Innes, Lieut.--18th April 1842, Ensign. Retired

20th May 1853.

Middleton, William, Lieut.-Colonel.--9th July 1803, Ensign. Retired

from command of the Regiment 23d August 1839. Died at Woolwich 18th

Feb. 1843.

Mitchel, James William.--5th March 1858, Lieut, from St Helena

Regiment--To 17th Foot 10th July 1860. Retired 23d July 1861.

Montague, George, Brevet-Major.--5th April 1839.--From H. P. 52d, 3d

June 1842.

Montgomery, Thos. Henry (of Hattonburn), Captain.--3d March 1847,

Ensign. Retired 22d May 1847.

Moore, George T. Carns, Captain.--12th Dec. 1856, Ensign--Captain

23d Nov. 1872.

Moseley, Herbert Henry, Captain.--3d June 1853, Ensign--Retired 24th

March 1863. Died at Calcutta 19th May 1863.

Moubray, William Henry H. C., Lieut.--22d Oct. 1870, Ensign--Lieut.

25th Oct. 1871.

Muir, Sir Wm., K.C.B., M.D. and C.B.--22d Nov. 1842,

Assistant-Surgeon--Promoted Surgeon 33d Regiment 24th Feb.

1854--Inspector-General 15th Feb. 1861.

Munro, George Montgomery, Sub-Lieut.--11th Dec. 1872.

Murray, Charles, Lieut.-Colonel.--21st June 1833, Ensign--To

Half-pay Major 12th Sept. 1856. Retired 21st Sept. 1860 with rank of

Lieut.-Colonel.

Murray, The Hon. David Henry, Brevet-Major.--6th April 1828,

Ensign--To Lieut. 7th Fusiliers 9th Nov. 1830. Retired from Scots

Fusilier Guards 4th Feb. 1848. Died at Taymount, Perthshire, 5th

Sept. 1862.

Murray, Sir George, General.--6th Sept. 1823, Colonel--Removed to

the 1st Royal Scots 29th Dec. 1843. Died in London 28th July 1846.

Murray, Henry Dundas.--30th Jan. 1835, Ensign. Retired 17th Nov.

1837.

Murray, James Wolfe (of Cringletie).--25th Jan. 1833, Ensign.

Retired 24th June 1833.

Murray, Sir Robert, Bart.--15th Dec. 1837, Ensign. Retired 2d August

1839.

Murray, Sir William Keith, Bart.--Captain 1st Oct. 1825.--Half-pay

15th June 1830. Retired 10th March 1838. Died 16th Oct. 1861.

Nicholson, Brinsley, M.D., Dep.-Inspector-General.--15th Nov. 1829,

Surgeon--Staff-Surgeon to the Forces 19th June 1835--Half-pay 30th

Dec. 1845. Died at Red Hill, Surrey, 15th March 1857.

Orde, John W. Powlett, Captain (yr. of Kilmory).--6th Dec. 1844,

Ensign. Retired 9th Jan. 1857.

Paterson, Augustus, Captain.--10th Jan. 1840, Ensign--To 68th

Captain on reduction 24th Sept. 1850. Retired from 41st on the 24th

Nov. 1854.

Paterson, James, M.D., Surgeon.--19th June 1835, Surgeon--To

Half-pay 26th Feb. 1841. Died in Edinburgh 26th August 1866.

Paterson, James Erskine, Lieut, (now Erskine Erskine of

Linlathen).--3d Nov. 1846, Ensign. Retired 12th Oct. 1852.

Paton, Edward, Captain.--Joined the Regiment as Armourer-Serjeant

24th August 1814.--Quarter-Master-Serjeant 15th Nov.

1838--Quarter-Master 19th June 1840--To Half-pay 5th May 1854. Died

at Southsea, Portsmouth, 2d May 1863.

Peter, James John, Lieut.--16th April 1861, Ensign from 5th

foot--Lieut. 14th June 1864. Died in India, 11th Nov. 1865.

Pitcairn, Andrew, Lieut.-Colonel.--15th May 1840, Ensign--Exchanged

Major to 25th, 17th July 1857. To Half-pay Lieut.-Colonel on

reduction of a Depot Battalion--1st April 1870. Retired 21st August

1871.

Priestly, Edward Ramsden, Colonel.--17th July 1857, Major from 25th

Regiment. Died in command of the Regiment at Stirling, 25th March

1868.

Ramsay, Alexander, Captain.--16th May 1840, Ensign--Exchanged to

68th. Captain 27th Sept. 1853. Retired 20th Jan. 1854.

Ramsay, Robert Williamson, Captain.--15th June 1832, Lieut. from

62d. Retired 16th Nov. 1841.

Raynes, Thomas, Captain.--2d Sept. 1824, Ensign. Retired 30th Jan.

1835.

Robertson, George Duncan (of Struan), Lieut.--14th June, 1833,

Ensign. Retired 16th May 1840. Died at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, 3d

April 1864.

Robertson, James, Captain.--1st Dec. 1808, Ensign--to Half-pay

Captain 13th Feb. 1827. Died in the 48th Regiment, at Chatham, 20th

April 1833.

Robertson, Wm. James (younger of Kinlochmoidart), Captain.--16th

June 1848, Ensign--Exchanged Lieut. to 30th Regiment. Retired 4th

Dec. 1857. Died at Kinlochmoidart, 26th June 1869.

Rollo, The Hon. Robert, C.B., Major-General.--10th Aug. 1832,

Ensign--To Half-pay Lieut.-Colonel 17th July 1855.

Rose, Eustace, Henry.--21st Jan. 1833, Captain from 60th

Rifles--Exchanged to 7th Fusiliers 27th May 1853. Retired 3d June

1856.

Ross, Gilian M’Lean, Brevet-Major.--17th Nov. 1841--Lieut.

from 57th--To Half-pay as Captain 4th Sept. 1849--To 3d W. I.

Regiment--and To Half-pay from it 6th March 1863. Died in London 23d

May 1866.

Ross, James Kerr, Lieut.-General.--31st May 1821, Captain--Half-pay

27th Dec. 1827. Died at Edinburgh, 26th April 1872.

St John, George Frederick Berkeley, Major.--25th Nov. 1819,

Lieut.--To Half-pay Captain 25th Oct. 1821--To H. P. Major from the

52d, 31st May 1839. Died a Knight of Windsor, 23d July 1866.

Samwell, Frank, Captain.--Paymaster from Half-pay 102d 15th Dec.

1869.

Sandeman, Thos. Fraser, Captain.--24th Dec. 1848, Ensign--Half-pay

Lieut. 10th Aug. 1832. Retired from 73d Captain 31st May 1844.

Sandilands, E. Nimmo, Lieut.-Colonel.--21st May 1842,

Ensign--Promoted to Lieut. 8th Foot 3d April 1846--Lieut.-Colonel

Bengal Staff Corps.

Scobie, Mackay John, Lieut.--12th Jan. 1867, Ensign--Lieut. 28th

Oct. 1871.

Scott, Francis Cunningham (younger of Malleny), Major.--24th Nov.

1852, Ensign--Major 26th March 1868.

Scott, James Rattray, Lieut.--4th July 1819, Ensign--To 47th 11th

July 1822. Resigned 6th Dec. 1826.

Shuttleworth, Charles, Captain.--23d April 1855, Ensign--To Bengal

Staff Corps, Lieut. 27th Oct. 1865--Captain 23d April 1867.

Simpson, John, V.C.--Joined the Regiment 8th June 1843--From

Quarter-Master Sergeant promoted to Quarter-Master 7th Oct. 1859.

Sinclair, Robert Bligh, Captain.--27th Sept. 1839, Ensign.--To

Half-pay Captain on reduction 15th Nov. 1850. Retired from 66th

Captain 3d Nov. 1854--Was Adjutant-General of Militia for Nova

Scotia, and went to the Danish Island of Santa Cruz for the benefit

of his health, where he died on the 28th of June 1872.

Spens, Colin, Lieut.--2d Dec. 1862, Ensign--Lieut. 2d March 1866.

Died in India 22d June 1867.

Spooner, Wm. Henry, Lieut.--9th Oct. 1855, Ensign--To 9th Foot

Lieut. 16th April 1861--To 90th 11th April 1862--Half-pay 27th Feb.

1867. Died at Bingen on the Rhine, 29th Nov. 1870.

Stevenson, A. Scott, Lieut.--17th March 1869, Ensign--Lieut. 28th

Oct. 1871.

Stevenson, George Milne, Lieut.-Colonel.--10th Sept. 1818,

Lieut.--To Half-pay Captain 19th June 1840--To H. P. Lieut.-Colonel

from Rifle Brigade 19th June 1840. Retired 7th August 1846. Nothing

more known of him.

Stewart, Andrew David Alston, Captain.--26th Sept. 1831,

Ensign--Exchanged to 6th Foot Lieut. 1st Sept 1837. Died in India,

Captain 61st, 18th May 1848.

Stewart, Charles Edward, Ensign.--8th June 1826, Ensign. Died at

Gibraltar, 3d Nov. 1828.

Stewart, The Hon. Randolph Henry, Captain.--2d March 1855,

Ensign--Captain 14th June 1864--To Half-pay 23d March 1867.

Stewart, John, Assistant-Surgeon.--4th May 1809.--To Half-pay 25th

Dec. 1818. Died at Perth, 2d Jan. 1837.

Stewart, Roger, Captain.--28th June 1810, Ensign--To Half-pay

Captain 13th Feb. 1827. Died in the Royal African Corps, on the West

Coast, 15th July 1833.

Stirling, James, Captain.--13th August 1805, Ensign. Retired 25th

Sept. 1817. Died at Musselburgh 20th Jan. 1818.

Stirling, Thos. Jas. Graham (of Strowan), Lieut.--8th Nov. 1827,

Ensign. Retired 15th Dec. 1837.

Strange, Alex., Lieut.--8th Feb. 1809, Ensign. Died 15th May 1823.

Stuart, J. G. Gordon, Lieut.--1st June 1855, Ensign--Lieut. 1st May

1857--Exchanged to St Helena Regiment 5th March 1858. Retired 23d

Sept. 1862.

[366]Stuart, John Patrick, Brevet-Major.--Joined the Regiment 18th

May 1825--Promoted from Colour-Serjeant to 2d Lieut. in the 21st

Fusiliers, 30th Dec. 1838--To Staff-Officer of Pensioners, 1st Jan.

1855, from 43d Light Infantry.

Suther, William King, Lieut.--13th Feb. 1866, Ensign from

99th--Lieut. 18th August 1869.

Thompson, William Kerr, Lieut.--7th April 1825, Ensign from

Half-pay, Lieut. 26th Regiment, 26th April 1828. Died on Half-pay

27th May 1833.

Thompson, William Thomas, Captain from 83d, 28th Jan. 1870. Retired

19th Oct. 1872.

Thornhill, T. Allen, M.B.--24th July 1867, Assistant-Surgeon--To 7th

Hussars 25th March 1859.

Thorold, George Edward, Colonel.--28th July 1857, Lieut.-Colonel

from H. P. 92d. Retired on Full-pay, with rank of Colonel, 16th

March 1858.

Tinnie, William Thomas, Captain.--26th June 1827, Ensign--To 86th

Lieut. 20th Dec. 1827. Retired Captain from 8th Hussars 15th Nov.

1839. Died 21st March 1848.

Troup, Robert William, M.B.--1st Sept. 1865, Assistant-Surgeon from

the Staff.

Tulloch, Thomas, Colonel.--15th June 1838, Captain from 94th--To

Half-pay Lieut.-Colonel 9th Oct. 1855. Retired with the rank of

Colonel 21st Oct. 1859. Died in London 3d Jan. 1866.

Tulloch, James Tulloch, M.D., Assistant-Surgeon.--2d July 1861, from

Rifle Brigade. Died in India 16th July 1867.

Underwood, William, Captain.--5th June 1855, Ensign--Captain 11th

Jan. 1867. Retired 12th Feb. 1873.

Wade, Thos. Francis, Colonel.--13th July 1809, Captain from

20th--Half-pay Major 4th May 1826. Died at Haverford West, 3d Dec.

1846.

Wade, Thomas Francis (son of the Colonel), Lieut.--23d August 1839,

Ensign--Promoted in 98th, Lieut. 16 Nov. 1841. Retired 22d June

1847. Now British Minister at Pekin.

Walter, William Sanders, Captain.--25th Jan. 1856, Ensign--Captain

23d March 1867. Retired 23d Nov. 1872.

Ward, William Crofton, Captain.--18th August 1848, Ensign--Retired

24th May 1861.

Wardell, Charles, Paymaster.--22d Feb. 1821.--Half-pay 25th Jan.

1828. Died 29th July 1862.

Warner, Chas. W. Pole.--28th Dec. 1860, Ensign from 43d. Resigned

16th April 1861.

Warrand, Arthur Wellesley, Lieut. 24th March 1863, Ensign--Lieut.

10th July 1866. Retired 21st Oct. 1870. Died at Cape of Good Hope

1st June 1871.

Wauchope, Andrew Gilbert, Lieut. and Adjutant.--21st Nov. 1865,

Ensign--Lieut. 23d June 1867--Adjutant 5th April 1870.

Webber, W. G. Everard, Captain.--23d Nov. 1852, Ensign. Died in

India, 9th July 1866.

Wedderburn, John Walter, Lieut.-Colonel.--26th Oct. 1841, Ensign.

Retired Captain 12th May 1854--Major, Royal Perth Rifles, 5th Nov.

1855. Retired with rank of Lieut.-Colonel 10th Dec. 1869.

Wheatley, John, Lieut.-Colonel.--Joined the Regiment 1st May

1817--Ensign and Adjutant from Acting Serjeant-Major 20th July

1832--To a Depot Battalion, 26th Jan. 1855. Retired on Half-pay 27th

June 1866.

Whigham, Robert, Major.--6th June 1854, Ensign.--To Half-pay Captain

on reduction 1st Jan. 1857--7th Fusiliers 31st Dec. 1857--16th

Lancers 9th Oct. 1863.

Whitehead, Edmund, Captain.--22d May 1857, Ensign.--Captain 17th

August 1869.

Whitehead, Frederick G. I.--27th May 1853, Captain from 7th

Fusiliers. Retired 27th July 1854.

Wilkes, Edwin.--10th July 1860, Assistant-Surgeon from Staff--To

Staff Corps in India, 8th Aug. 1862.

Wilkinson, Frederick Green, Colonel.--28th Nov. 1851, Captain from

43d--Lieut.-Colonel, exchanged to a Depot Battalion 27th Sept. 1861.

Wilson, John, Bt.-Major.--Joined the Regiment 22d Oct.

1844--Promoted Ensign from Sergeant-Major 10th August 1854--Captain

16th March 1858--Bt.-Major 5th July 1872.

Wood, John Gillespie, M.D.--12th March 1852, Surgeon--To Staff

Surgeon-Major 9th Feb. 1855--To Half-pay Dep.-Inspec.-General, 8th

June 1867.

Wood, William, Major--Joined the Regiment 27th July 1843--Promoted

to Quarter-Master from Sergeant-Major, 5th May 1854--Adjutant 16th

Feb. 1855--To Half-pay Captain 17th March 1863--Major 1st April 1870.

Young, James, Lieut.--22d Oct. 1805, Ensign--Half-pay 25th Nov.

1819. Died in Edinburgh, 15th June 1846.

HIGHLAND PIBROCH:

Composed by one of the MacCrummens in the midst of the Battle of

Inverlochy, 1427, wherein Donald Balloch of the Isles was victorious

over the Royal Forces.

[Music: ARRANGED FOR THE BAGPIPES.

VARIATION 1st. Slow.]

[Music: VARIATION 2nd. Slow and pointed.

VARIATION 3rd. A little lively.

DOUBLING OF VARIATION 3rd.

VARIATION 4th. Livelier.]

[Music: Doubling of VARIATION 4th. Lively.

Trebling of VARIATION 4th. Livelier still.

CREANLUIDH or ROUND MOVEMENT. Brisk.]

[Music: Doubling of CREANLUIDH. Very brisk.]

[Music: Trebling of CREANLUIDH. As lively as can be

played distinctly.]

The ground of this Piobaireachd may be played after the Doubling of

each VARIATION.

NOTE.--This HIGHLAND PIBROCH was played by the 42nd Royal Highlanders

while marching to Quatre Bras. See page 394.

FOOTNOTES:

[257] Stewart’s _Sketches_. In confirmation of this, General Stewart

mentions the case of Mr Stewart of Bohallie, his grand-uncle by

marriage, who was one of the gentlemen soldiers in Carrick’s

company. “This gentleman, a man of family and education, was five

feet eleven inches in height, remarkable for his personal strength

and activity, and one of the best swordsmen of his time in an age

when good swordsmanship was common, and considered an indispensable

and graceful accomplishment of a gentleman; and yet, with all these

qualifications, he was only a centre man of the centre rank of his

company.”

[258] Sir Robert Menzies, writing to the _Dundee Advertiser_ in

connection with the monument recently erected at Dunkeld to the Black

Watch, says this is a mistake, although it is the account generally

received, and that given by General David Stewart. Sir Robert says

“the detailed companies of the Black Watch met at Weem, and that the

whole regiment was first drawn up in the field at Boltachan, between

Weem and Taybridge.” It is strange, considering the inscription on

the monument, that Sir Robert should have been asked to allow it to

be erected in the field in question. After all, both statements may

be essentially correct, and it is of no great consequence.

[259] While the companies acted independently, each commander assumed

the tartan of his own clan. When embodied, no clan having a superior

claim to offer a uniform plaid to the whole, and Lord Crawford,

the colonel, being a lowlander, a new pattern was assumed, which

has ever since been known as the 42d, or Black Watch tartan, being

distinct from all others. Here we must acknowledge our indebtedness

to a manuscript history of this regiment, kindly lent us by

Lieutenant-Colonel Wheatley, whose “happy home,” he says himself,

the regiment was for 38 years. The volume contains much curious,

valuable, and interesting information, on which we shall largely

draw in our account of the 42d. Our obligations to Colonel Wheatley

in connection with this history of the Highland regiments are very

numerous; his willingness to lend us every assistance in his power

deserves our warmest thanks.

[260] Stewart’s _Sketches_.

[261] See p. 234 of this volume.

[262] See vol. i., p. 626.

[263] Taybridge and the Point of Lyon, a mile below Taymouth Castle,

were their places of rendezvous for exercise.

[264] Culloden Papers, No. CCCXC.

[265] The king, having never seen a Highland soldier, expressed a

desire to see one. Three privates, remarkable for their figure and

good looks, were fixed upon and sent to London a short time before

the regiment marched. These were Gregor M’Gregor, commonly called

Gregor the Beautiful, John Campbell, son of Duncan Campbell of the

family of Duneaves, Perthshire, and John Grant from Strathspey, of

the family of Ballindalloch. Grant fell sick, and died at Aberfeldy.

The others “were presented by their Lieutenant-Colonel, Sir Robert

Munro, to the king, and performed the broadsword exercise, and that

of the Lochaber axe, or lance, before his majesty, the Duke of

Cumberland, Marshal Wade, and a number of general officers assembled

for the purpose, in the Great Gallery at St James’s. They displayed

so much dexterity and skill in the management of their weapons, as

to give perfect satisfaction to his majesty. Each got a gratuity of

one guinea, _which they gave to the porter at the palace gate as they

passed out_.”[266] They thought that the king had mistaken their

character and condition in their own country. Such was, in general,

the character of the men who originally composed the Black Watch.

This feeling of self-estimation inspired a high spirit and sense of

honour in the regiment, which continued to form its character and

conduct long after the description of men who originally composed it

was totally changed. These men afterwards rose to rank in the army.

Mr Campbell got an ensigncy for his conduct at Fontenoy, and was

captain-lieutenant of the regiment when he was killed at Ticonderoga,

where he also distinguished himself. Mr M’Gregor was promoted in

another regiment, and afterwards purchased the lands of Inverardine

in Breadalbane. He was grandfather of Sir Gregor M’Gregor, a

commander in South America.--Stewart’s _Sketches_, vol. i. p. 250.

[266] _Westminster Journal._

[267] Brother to General Kenneth M’Pherson of the East India

Company’s Service, who died in 1815. General Stewart says that

Lord John Murray, who was afterwards colonel of the regiment, had

portraits of the sufferers hung up in his dining-room; but for what

reason is not known. They were remarkable for their great size and

handsome figure.

[268] _St James’s Chronicle_, 20th July 1743.

[269] Dr Doddridge’s _Life of Colonel Gardiner_.

[270] Rolt’s _Life of the Earl of Crawford_.

[271] Rolt’s _Life of the Earl of Crawford_.

[272] “Captain John Campbell of Carrick was one of the most

accomplished gentleman of his day. Possessing very agreeable manners

and bravery, tempered by gaiety, he was regarded by the people as

one of those who retained the chivalrous spirit of their ancestors.

A poet, a soldier, and a gentleman, no less gallant among the ladies

than he was brave among men; he was the object of general admiration;

and the last generation of Highlanders among whom he was best known,

took great pleasure in cherishing his memory, and repeating anecdotes

concerning him. He married a sister of General Campbell of Mamore,

afterwards Duke of Argyll.”--Stewart’s _Sketches_.

[273] Culloden Papers, p. 200.

[274] Stewart’s _Sketches_.