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2nd Bn, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders: Service

     
  1752.08 Sutherland Fencibles
raised in Scotland for home service
  1752 Scotland
  1763 disbanded
       
1779 Sutherland Fencibles
raised in Scotland for home service (with a second Gren Coy instead of Lt Coy)
  1779 Scotland
  1783 disbanded
       
  1793 Sutherland Fencibles
raised in Scotland for home service
  1793 Scotland
  1797 Ireland
  1798 Ireland  
  1798? Scotland  
  1799.01 disbanded at Fort George
     
  1799.04.16 93rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot
raised in Sutherland County, mostly from disbanded Sutherland Fencibles (embodied 25 Aug. 1800 at Inverness)
  1800 Channel Islands: Guernsey
  1802 Scotland
  1803 absorbed disbanding Reay Fencibles and Rothesay and Caithness Fencibles
  1803 Ireland
  1805 Cape of Good Hope Highland Bde
  1809 93rd Regiment of Foot
  1809 Cape of Good Hope
  1813.05.27 1st Battalion, 93rd Regiment of Foot
redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion
  1814 England
  1814 American War: New Orleans campaign
  1815 England
  1815 Ireland
  1816 93rd Regiment of Foot
redesignated on disbandment of 2nd Battalion
  1819 Netherlands
  1821 93rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot
  1823 West Indies
  1834 England
  1836 Ireland
  1838 Canada
  1848 Scotland
  1852 England
  1854.02 at sea (embarked at Plymouth)
  1854.05 Scutari
  1854.09 Crimea Highland Bde
  1856.03 at sea
  1856 England
  1857.06 at sea  
  1857 India
  1857 Sepoy rebellion
  1859 India
  1861 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
  1861 Peshawar  
  1863 Umbeyla campaign
  1864 Peshawar
  1867 Central India
  1870 Scotland: Edinburgh
  1873 England
  1876 Ireland: Curragh
  1879 Gibraltar
  1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
1881 England: Aldershot
  1882 Scotland  
1884 England: Parkhurst
1888 Ireland: Curragh
  1890 England  
1891 India: Dagshai  
<1897> Nowshera  
<1899> Rheniket  
1902 Calcutta  
1904 Poona  
1907 South Africa  
1910 Scotland: Glasgow  
1912 Fort George  
1914.08 France and Flanders LofC, BEF
1914.10 France and Flanders 6 Div
  1915.05 France and Flanders 27 Div
1915.08 France and Flanders 2 Div
1915.11 France and Flanders 33 Div
1919 Scotland  
1919 Ireland: Claremorris  
1922 England: Parkhurst  
1927 West Indies  
1929 China  
1930 Hong Kong  
  1933 India: Secunderabad  
  1935 NW Frontier
  1937.10 Rawalpindi  
  1939 Singapore  
  1941.12 The Plymouth Argylls
formed in Malaya by amalgamation with
RM survivors of HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales
  1942 Malaya  
  1942.02.15 captured by the Japanese in Malaya
  1942.05.05 2nd Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
reconstituted by redesignation of
15th Battalion in Orkneys
  1942.05 Scotland: Orkneys
  1943.09 UK 15 Inf Div
  1944.05 NW Europe
  1945 Germany
  1947 UK
1948.09.30 amalgamated with 1st Battalion