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the queen's own highlanders
(seaforth and cameron)

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  • 1793 - raised as the 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameronian Volunteers)

  • 1794 - raised as the 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameron Highlanders)

  • 1873 - raised as the 79th Regiment, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

  • 1881 - raised as 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

  • 1897 - 2nd Battalion raised

  • 1961 - The Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons), upon amalgamation with the Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's). Officially abbreviated 'QO HLDRS'

  • 1994 -1st Battalion, Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons), upon amalgamation with the Gordon Highlanders

  • 2006 - The Highlanders, 4th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, also know as 4 SCOTS

 

The Seaforths came from the amalgamation of 78th and 72nd regiments in 1881. The Seaforths were then amalgamated with the 79th Cameron Highlanders in 1961 to form the Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Cameron) at Redford Barracks, Edinburgh, with the amalgamation of 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders and 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders to form the 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Highlanders. This would suggest that this dirk is of the 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Highlanders QoH had the regimental device of St. Andrew.

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