Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Bullecourt, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcapelle. Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Béthune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917–18 The Second World War: Withdrawal to Escaut, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Odon, La Vie Crossing, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Rhineland, Reichswald, Cleve, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940, '44–45, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Mareth, Medjez Plain, North Africa 1942–43, Landing in Sicily, Sferro, Sicily 1943, Anzio, Rome, Italy 1944–45 Sporting honours Winner of the Irish FA Cup in 1890 Colonels-in-Chief Colonels in Chief were as follows: 1898–:F.M. King Edward VII 1937–: F.M. Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester, KG, KT, KP, GCB, GCMG, GCVO 1977–: Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, KG, KT, GCB, AK, QSO, ADC Regimental Colonels Colonels of the regiment were: 1881–1890: (1st Battalion): Gen. John Thomas Hill (ex 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot) 1881–1884 (2nd Battalion): Gen. Mark Kerr Atherley (ex 92nd Gordon Highlanders) 1884–1895 (2nd Battalion only to 1890): Gen. Sir John Alexander Ewart, KCB 1895–1897: Lt-Gen. Charles Edward Parke Gordon, CB 1897–1912: F.M. Sir George Stuart White, VC, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO 1912–1914: Gen. Sir Charles Whittingham Horsley Douglas, GCB 1914–1939: Gen. Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, GCB, GCMG, DSO, TD 1939–1948: Maj-Gen. Sir James Lauderdale Gilbert Burnett, Bt, CB, CMG, DSO 1948–1958: Col. William James Graham, MC 1958–1965: Brig. James Roderick Sinclair, 19th Earl of Caithness, CVO, CBE, DSO 1965 (May–September) vacant 1965–1978: Lt-Gen. Sir George C. Gordon Lennox, KBE, CB, CVO, DSO 1978–1986: Lt-Gen. Sir John Richard Alexander Macmillan, KCB, CBE 1986–1994: Lt-Gen. Sir Peter Walter Graham, KCB, CBE 1994: amalgamated with Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) to form The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) Alliances Alliances were: - The 48th Highlanders of Canada - The Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's Own) - 5th Battalion, The Victorian Scottish Regiment - 5th and 6th Battalions, The Royal Victoria Regiment - 5th/7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment - The Cape Town Highlanders Notes References J.B.M. Frederick, Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660-1978, Volume I, 1984: Microform Academic Publishers, Wakefield, United Kingdom. . George Forty, British Army Handbook 1939-1945. Sutton Publishing (1992), .