Queens Own Highlanders

Author : Trevor Royle
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780572425
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen's Own Highlanders written by Trevor Royle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created in 1961 as a result of the amalgamation of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and the Seaforth Highlanders, the Queen's Own Highlanders embody the history and traditions of some of Scotland's oldest Highland regiments. Two great Highland families - Cameron of Lochdarroch and Mackenzie of Seaforth - were involved in the formation of the antecedent regiments and their tartans were incorporated in their successor's uniform. During its long history, the regiment has served in the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimea, the Indian Mutiny, the Boer War and the two World Wars of the twentieth century. After the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, the Duke of Wellington specifically mentioned the Cameron Highlanders in his dispatches as a result of the bravery shown by Piper Kenneth Mackay, who left the safety of the regiment's defensive square to encourage the men by playing the traditional rallying tune 'Cogadh no Sith' (War or Peace - the True Gathering of the Clans). In 1994, the Queen's Own Highlanders amalgamated with the Gordon Highlanders, and in 2006 they became the 4th Battalion of the new Royal Regiment of Scotland. This account of the regiment is therefore a timely memorial to its long and distinguished history.

Author : Angus Fairrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780950898629
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) written by Angus Fairrie and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Angus Fairrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780950898605
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Cuidich 'n Righ" written by Angus Fairrie and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Army. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Records of the 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders written by Great Britain. Army. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Cowan
Publisher : Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Military Disasters written by Paul Cowan and published by Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of Scotland's failures on the battlefields of the world from Mons Graupius to Korea.

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Download or read book Historical Records of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Cochrane
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781862273658
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlie Company written by Peter Cochrane and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Cochrane joined the company as a young platoon commander in 1940. From his own experience he has told the remarkable story of a small group of soldiers. The stresses and horrors of war are there, but so is the humour and the spirit of men whose morale sustained to the very end. This is the story of a rifle company of the Cameron Highlanders.

Author : Bill Innes
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857905198
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. Valery written by Bill Innes and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gallant rearguard action which led to the capture of the 51st Highland Division at St Valéry-en-Caux (two weeks after the famous evacuation of the main British army from Dunkirk) may have burned itself into the consciousness of an older generation of Scots but has never been given the wider recognition it deserves. This new book re-examines that fateful chain of events in 1940 and reassesses some of the myths that have grown up in the intervening years. Two of the main contributors to this collection of soldiers' reminiscences, Angus Campbell from Lewis and Donald John MacDonald from South Uist, were both traditional Gaelic bards. Their work has been translated from their native language and reflects both the richness of the vocabulary they had acquired through the Gaelic oral tradition and their individual gifts as natural story-tellers born out of that tradition. These vivid accounts bring alive the chaos and horror of war and the grim deprivation of the camps and forced marches which so many endured. Yet the personal stories also resound with the spirit, humour and sense of comradeship which enabled men to fight on in desperate situations and refuse to be cowed by their captors.

Author : Angus MacDonald
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0857903357
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ardnish Was Home written by Angus MacDonald and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Donald Peter Gillies, a Lovat scout soldier lies in hospital in Gallipoli in 1916, blinded by the Turks. There he falls in love with his Queen Alexandra Corps nurse, Louise, and she with him. The story moves back and forth from their time at the field hospital to the west highlands of Scotland where Donald grew up. As they talk in the quiet hours he tells her the stories of the coast and glens, how his family lived and the fascinating life of a century ago: bagpiping, sheep shearing, celidhs, illegal distilling, his mother saving the life of the people of St Kilda, the navvies building the west highland railway and the relationship between the lairds and the people. Louise in turn tells her own story of growing up in the Welsh valley: coal mining, a harsh and unforgiving upbringing. They get cut off from the allied troops and with another nurse are forced to make their escape through Turkey to Greece, getting rescued by a Coptic priest and ending up in Malta. By this time their love is out in the open, but there is still another tragic twist to their story waiting on the way back to Donald's beloved highland home . . .

Author : Patrick Watt
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9781803995892
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Steel and Tartan written by Patrick Watt and published by History Press. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of the 6th Cameron Highlanders during the First World War