Group    From 1725  To 1881

42nd Royal Highlanders

Categories: Armed Forces

Countries: Scotland

Infantry regiment of the British army. Originally a militia raised to build a network of roads, it became known as the Black Watch because of the dark green tartan with which they were issued. It was officially formed as a regiment in 1739 as the 43rd Highlanders, until it was renumbered in 1748. When the regiment was ordered to London for an inspection by King George II, there were rumours that they were to be shipped to the West Indies to fight in the War of Austrian Succession, and many soldiers mutinied. The regiment saw service in the Napoleonic Wars and the Battle of Waterloo. It was amalgamated with the 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot to form the Royal Highland Regiment.

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42nd Royal Highlanders

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A. Tompkinson

A. Tompkinson

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Private Robert Sheehy

Private Robert Sheehy

Robert Sheehy was born in 1877 in Hampstead, a son of John Sheehy (b.circa 1827 and Maria Sheehy (b.circa 1842). On 2 December 1877 he was baptised in Christ Church, Hampstead, where in the baptism...

Person, Armed Forces, France

War dead, WW1
2 memorials
Lt.-Col. John Lees Hall, MRCS, LRCP (FD)

Lt.-Col. John Lees Hall, MRCS, LRCP (FD)

Deputy Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1907-1915. Knight Grace in the Order of St John. The BMJ, 1915 Aug 28; 2(2852): 351 carries an obituary: "L...

Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Medicine

1 memorial
W. H. Hamilton

W. H. Hamilton

Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.

Person, Armed Forces, South Africa

War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Gerald W. Morris

Gerald W. Morris

Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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Group, Armed Forces

1 memorial
H. Pickering
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Trinity School of John Whitgift

Trinity School of John Whitgift

Part of the Whitgift Foundation, founded by John Whitgift. Formerly known as the Whitgift Middle School, it was renamed in 1954, reflecting the school's increasing equality with Whitgift School. It...

Building, Education

1 memorial
Lord Lloyd of Berwick

Lord Lloyd of Berwick

Treasurer at the Inner Temple, 1999.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial