75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot [UK]

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Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 04.06.2006

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	75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot
	United Kingdom

Titles & Lineage

History

Battle Honours

Colours, Standards & Guidons

Uniforms & Badges

Colonels-in-Chief

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	1787.10.12	75th (Highland) Regiment of Foot raised by EIC for service in India when war with the French was imminent, but, the danger having passed, EIC refused to support or embark the regiment, whereupon Parliament passed the East India Declaratory Act requiring that troops deemed necessary for the security of overseas territories be supported by revenues from those territories (see also 74th Foot, 76th Foot and 77th Foot)
	1809.04.07	75th Regiment of Foot regt lost Highland status and dress
	1862.11.06	75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot
	1881.07.01	united with 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot, to form The Gordon Highlanders


		Seventy-Fifth Regiment or 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders (Electric Scotland)

	*Regulars:*
		[1st Battalion] [1787-1881]

	*Depot and Reserves:*
		? Depot Battalion [1856-1871]
		39th Brigade Depot at Dorchester [1873-1881]


	Seringapatam, [India^]¹, Delhi 1857, Lucknow 1. the Royal Tiger badge superscribed "India", awarded 1807 for services in 1796-1806, including 4th Mysore war, 5th Mysore war, and 2nd Mahratta war. Note: see also successor for belatedly awarded battle honours.

Badges:

Uniform:

1778-1881: scarlet; facings: yellow
tartan:


	1787.10.12	Gen. Sir Robert Abercromby, GCB [also CinC Bombay 1790, Bengal 1792-93, India]
	1827.11.10	Lt-Gen. James Dunlop
	1832.04.09	Lt-Gen. Sir Joseph Fuller, GCH [also 96th Foot]
	1841.10.26	Gen. Sir William Hutchinson, KCH
	1845.09.16	Gen. Sackville Hamilton Berkeley [also 16th Foot]
	1858.03.22	Gen. St. John Augustus Clerke, KH
	1870.01.18	Gen. Sir David Russell, KCB [also 84th Foot]
	1872.10.24	Gen. John Thomas Hill [also DCLI]


		Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).
		VCs in the Gordon Highlanders Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart.
		Army List 1799: 75th (Highland) Regiment of Foot


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	Band History, by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd) Bandmasters, by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd)
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		The Gordon Highlanders Regimental Museum, Aberdeen (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
		The Gordon Highlanders Regimental Museum, Aberdeen, by Henrik Teller (Simonides listing).