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| | 1BW 1739-1881 ( The Black Watch) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | In September 1739 King George II authorised the Companies to be formed into a Regiment of Foot, with the Earl of Crawford, a Lowlander, the first nominal Commanding Officer and in March 1743, the Regiment was ordered to march South to London to be reviewed by the King. |
 | | The soldiers, however, were not told of the reason for their move and rumours about being shipped to the West Indies abounded. |
 | | In Edinburgh on 1st July 1881, as a result of the Cardwell reforms, the 42nd were merged with their former 2nd Battalion, the 73rd, to become the 1st and 2nd Battalions The Royal Highlanders (The Black Watch), with a recruiting area of Fife, Forfashire (now Angus), and Perthshire. |
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