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26th August 2003	Scottish Regiments By Dave Chapman Sorry to be a pain the behind chaps but did any scottish regiments fght in the zulu war ? i do recall someone saying that the "Buffs" fought against the zulus, srel it cant just have been the 24th of foot that fought aginst te zulus. Any info on the other regiments that fought them would be greatly accepted, Im esepecially interested in the Black watch.
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26th August 2003	Martin Everett Dear Dave The roll for the campaign medal contains 24,000 Imperials including the Royal Navy and 14,000 Colonials. Not a small adventure! Main British reigments (many of whom arrived for the 2nd invasion -i.e. after Isandhlwana): King's Dragoon Guards 17th Lancers 2nd Bn 3rd Foot (The Buffs) an English Regt 2nd Bn 4th Foot 1st Bn 13th Foot 2nd Bn 21st Foot (Royal Scots Fusiliers) 1st Bn 24th 2nd Bn 24th 57th Foot 58th Foot 3rd Bn 60th Rifles 80th Foot 88th Foot (Connaught Rangers) 90th Foot (Perthshire Light infantry) 94th Foot 99th Foot plus Artillery, Engineers, Transport, Commissariat, Royal Navy - HMS Artive, Bodicea, Euphrates, Froester, Himalaya, Ornotes, Shah, Tamer, Tenedos. Sorry to twell you that at the time the 42nd were in Sitapur in Bengal.
26th August 2003	Clive Dickens Martin Welcome to the club you appear to have caught my desease hitting TWO keys at the same time I am pleased to see that I am not the only one guilty of this. Clive
26th August 2003	John Young Dave, Just to say on the list above, for some reason Martin has excluded the 91st (Princess Louise's Argyllshire) Highlanders. The only 'Highland' regiment to take part in the campaign. The 99th Foot also had Scottish links as it was then 'The Duke of Edinburgh's (Lanarkshire) Regiment', despite its Scottish title the unit's depot was in Devizes, Wiltshire. The 94th was originally a Scottish regiment, wearing the kilt until 1809. The 90th, who Martin mentioned above 'The Perthshire Volunteers Light Infantry' did have buff facings, and I recall a contemporary source referring to them as 'the Perthshire Buffs'. Confusing isn't it? John Y.
30th August 2003	Julian whybra There were also several special service officers serving with the Transport Dept who came from Scottish Regts - Essex for one.