1957 the number of infantry battalions was to be reduced, with regiments being amalgamated in pairs. Accordingly, the Camerons were amalgamated with the Seaforth Highlanders on 7 February 1961 to form the Queen's Own Highlanders. Battle honours The regiment's battle honours were as follows: Early Wars: Egmont-Op-Zee, Egypt, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes D'Onor, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Toulouse, Peninsula, Waterloo, Alma, Sevastopol, Lucknow, Egypt 1882, Tel-El-Kebir, Nile 1884–5, Khartoum, Atbara, South Africa, 1900–02 The Great War: Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17 '18, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Hill 60, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917, Arleux, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Kemmel, Béthune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, St. Quentin Canal, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–18, Struma, Macedonia 1915-18 The Second World War: Defence of Escaut, St. Omer-La Bassée, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Falaise, Falaise Road, La Vie Crossing, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Agordat, Keren, Abyssinia 1941, Sidi Barrani, Tobruk 1941 '42, Gubi II, Carmusa, Gazala, El Alamein, Mareth, Wadi Zigzaou, Akarit, Djebel Roumana, North Africa 1940–43, Francofonte, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Cassino, Poggio del Grillo, Gothic Line, Tavoleto, Coriano, Pian di Castello, Monte Reggiano, Rimini Line, San Marino, Italy 1944, Kohima, Relief of Kohima, Naga Village, Aradura, Shwebo, Mandalay, Ava, Irrawaddy, Mt. Popa, Burma 1944-45 Victoria Cross recipients The following servicemen from the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders were awarded the Victoria Cross: Donald Farmer (Second Boer War) Angus Douglas-Hamilton (First World War) James Dalgleish Pollock (First World War) Ross Tollerton (First World War) Colonels-in-Chief 1902–1936: F.M. King George V 1936–1953: F.M. King George VI 1953–1961: F.M. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, GBE, AC, QSO Colonels of the Regiment Colonels of the Regiment were: 79th (Highland-Cameron Volunteers) Regiment of Foot 1793–1794: Lt-Gen. Sir Alan Cameron, KCB (Major Commandant) 1794–1805: Lt-Gen. Sir Alan Cameron, KCB (Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant) 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameron Highlanders) - (1804) 1805–1828: Lt-Gen. Sir Alan Cameron, KCB (Colonel) 1828–1841: Gen. Sir Ronald Crauford Ferguson, Bt., GCB 1841–1842: Lt-Gen. Hon. John Ramsay 1842–1849: Gen. Sir James Macdonnell, GCB, KCH 1849–1854: Lt-Gen. James Hay, CB 1854–1862: Gen. Sir William