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created 1 November 2002. Corrected and updated
29.03.2005
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Note:This
is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental
page for full lineage and other information.
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Colour Key
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| 1794.02.10 | 90th
Regiment of Foot raised in Scotland |
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| 1794 | Scotland | ||
| 1794.05 | 1st
Battalion, 90th
Regiment of Foot redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1794 | England | ||
| 1795.09 | France: Brittany | ||
| 1795.12 | England | ||
| 1794.12.24 | 90th
Regiment of Foot redesignated on transfer of 2nd Battalion to Admiralty as marines |
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| 1797 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1797 | Minorca | ||
| 1800.08 | Cadiz | ||
| 1800.10 | Malta | ||
| 1801.03 | Egypt | ||
| 1801 | Malta | ||
| 1801 | England | ||
| 1802 | absorbed Perthshire Volunteers | ||
| 1803 | Ireland | ||
| 1804.09.28 | 1st
Battalion, 90th
Regiment of Foot redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1805 | West Indies: Antigua | ||
| 1809 | West Indies | ||
| 1810 | West Indies | ||
| 1814 | American war: Canadian frontier | Montreal garrison | |
| 1815 | Lower Canada: Quebec | ||
| 1815.08 | Belgium: Ostend | ||
| 1815 | France | Army of Occupation | |
| 1816.01 | England | ||
| 1817 | 90th
Regiment of Foot redesignated on disbandment of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1820 | Malta & Ionian Islands | ||
| 1830 | UK | ||
| 1835 | Ceylon | ||
| 1846 | at sea in divisions | 3 coys on Maria Somes wrecked at Mauritius and camped at Fort George | |
| 1846 | Cape Colony | ||
| 1846 | Kaffir war | ||
| 1847 | Kaffir war | regt reunited | |
| 1847? | at sea | det on HMS Thunderbolt wrecked off Cape Recife | |
| 1847? | England | ||
| 1854 | at sea | ||
| 1854.12.05 | Crimea: Balaklava | ||
| 1854.12 | Crimean war | ||
| 1856.07 | England | ||
| 1857 | at sea | destined for China but diverted | |
| 1857.08.02 | India: Berhampore | ||
| 1857 | Sepoy rebellion | ||
| 1858 | India: Bengal & Madras | ||
| 1869 | UK | ||
| 1877 | Cape Colony | ||
| 1877 | Kaffir war | ||
| 1879 | Zulu war | ||
| 1879 | Natal | ||
| 1881 | India: Bengal | ||
| 1881.07.01 | 2nd Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) | ||
| <1885> | Cawnpore | ||
| <1889> | Rhaniket | ||
| <1892 | Jubbulpore | ||
| 1895 | England | ||
| <1897> | Parkhurst | ||
| <1899> | Gibraltar | ||
| 1899.10 | South Africa | 4 Inf Bde | |
| 1902 | South Africa | ||
| 1907 | England: Aldershot | ||
| 1910 | Malta | ||
| 1914.11 | France and Flanders | 8 Div | |
| 1918.02 | France and Flanders | 20 Div | |
| 1919 | Mesopotamia | ||
| 1922.01 | India: Quetta | ||
| 1923 | Kurdistan | ||
| <1924.01> | Baluchistan/Waziristan | ||
| <1930.01> | Scotland | ||
| 1932 | England: Portsmouth | 9 Bde | |
| 1937 | Palestine | ||
| 1938 | England: Catterick | 13 Bde | |
| 1939.09 | France & Belgium | 5 Inf Div, BEF | |
| 1940.06 | UK | ||
| 1942.05 | Madagascar | ||
| 1942.06 | Persia & Iraq | ||
| 1943.07 | Sicily | ||
| Italy | |||
| 1945.02 | NW Europe | ||
| 1946 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1948.05 | amalgamated with 1st Battalion | ||
