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2 unusual facts about Cameron Highlanders


Cameron Highlanders

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (1793–1961), former infantry regiment of the British Army

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada (formed 1909), Primary reserve infantry regiment of the Canadian Forces


Battle of Ginnis

Colonel Huyshe's Second Brigade was composed of the Yorkshire Regiment, six companies of the Cameron Highlanders, 152 Sudanese soldiers, 278 men of the 1st Egyptian Battalion, a mule battery of the Royal Artillery, and detachments from both the British Camel Corps and its Egyptian counterpart.

Pardon for Morant, Handcock and Witton

Following four separate courts martial in early 1902, during the Second Boer War, Lieutenants Peter Joseph Handcock (1868-1902) and Harry Harbord Morant (1864-1902), also known as "Breaker" Morant, of the Bushveldt Carbineers, were executed by a firing squad of Cameron Highlanders, in Pretoria, South Africa, on 27 February 1902, 18 hours after they had been sentenced.

Soldier Wilson

Born in Hebburn, he earned his nickname as a teenager while serving with the Cameron Highlanders and the 1st Battalion, Black Watch.

Tom Horabin

and educated at Cardiff High School, and during the First World War he served from 1914 to 1918 with the Cameron Highlanders.


see also

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada Museum

The Queens Own Cameron Highlanders Museum is a military museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba.