Old Photograph Cameron Highlanders Pipe Band Inverness Scotland

Old photograph of the Cameron Highlanders Pipe Band in Inverness, Scotland. The Regiment was formed during the height of the French Revolutionary Wars, 1792 to 1802, by Sir Alan Cameron of Erracht in 1793. It was named after one of the most powerful Highland Clans at the time as the Cameronian Volunteers, but soon designated as the 79th Regiment of Foot Cameronian Volunteers. The Regiment was then sent to the West Indies and remained at Martinique for 2 years, where it suffered terribly from disease, to such an extent that fit men were allowed to transfer to other Regiments and only 200 men returned to England in 1797.



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