Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) SLIGO The Cape Town Highlanders served

The Cape Town Highlanders served in the Boer War and subsequently renamed the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn’s Own Cape Town Highlanders in 1906

The sett is known as the 'Green' Mackay

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This sett is shown by Smibert (1850) and by W and A Smith (1850) but without the definition of 'Hunting'

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) SLIGO The Cape Town Highlanders servedDouglas The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was a rifle regiment of the British Army, the only regiment of rifles amongst the Scottish regiments of infantry. It was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 26th Cameronian Regiment and the 90th Perthshire Light Infantry. In 1968, when reductions were required, the regiment chose to be disbanded rather than amalgamated with another regiment, one of only two infantry regiments