Scottish Military - Highland Regiments
Most of the Highland Regiment accounts are by William Melven, M.A., Glasgow but we have also included a book on the Scottish Lowland regiments by another author as well as some additional information from other sources.

• Introduction
• Montgomery's Highlanders
• The Black Watch
• MacDonald's Highlanders
• The 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
• Loudon's Highlanders
• Northern Ireland Establishment Scots
• Johnstone's Highlanders
• Argyle Highlanders
• Aberdeenshire Highland Regiment
• Royal Highland Regiment
• 75th Regiment
• The Lowland Scots Regiments
• The Final days of the Old Scottish Regiments
• Soldiers of Fortune
  In Camp & Court by Alexander Innes Shand
• More Adventures in Kilt and Khaki
  Sketches of the Glasgow Highlanders and others in France by Thomas M. Lyon (1917)
• The origin and official history of the Thirteenth Battalion of infantry, and a description of the work of the early militia of the Niagara Peninsula in the War of 1812 and the Rebellion of 1837 by Lieutenant-Colonel E. A. Cruickshank. (pdf)
• The forgotten Battles of The Scheldt & Woensdrecht on "Black Friday" The 13th.
• Tracing back the Lineage of the Black Watch (RHC) To 1831
• A Minstrel in France
  By Harry Lauder (1918)
• Battle of Vimy Ridge
  An article from Alastair's Canadian Experience.
• Major-General Alexander MacKay MacKenzie (pdf)
• Major John MacDonald
• Territorial Soldiering
  In the North-East of Scotland during 1759 to 1814 by John Malcolm Bulloch, M.A. (1914) (pdf)
• The Wonder Book of Soldiers
  For Boys and Girls, Edited by Harry Golding
• General Robert Melville of Strathkinness
  A Biographical Sketch written by his secretary.
• Sir Donald Stewart and Sir William Lockhart
• Mackay's Regiment
  An Account taken from the Transactions of the Gaelic Society
• Glengarry Fencibles

• Fraser's Highlanders
• Keiths's and Campbell's Highlanders
• The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
• The 78th Highlanders or Ross-Shire Buffs
• The Gordon Highlanders
• Eighty-Ninth Highland Regiment
• The Earl of Loudoun Regiment of Foote
• Lord MacLeod's Highlanders
• Athole Highlanders
• Royal Highland Emigrant Regiment
• 74th Highlanders
• Bibliography
• War with Iraq 2003
• Books and Articles by Ian McCulloch
• Sketches of The Character, Manners and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland
  with details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments by Major-General David Stewart in 2 volumes (1825).
• Canada's Black Watch 1951 - 1970
• The 5th regiment: Royal Scots of Canada Highlanders: a regimental history (1904)
• The 13th Battalion Royal Highlanders of Canada 1914 - 1919. by R. C. Fetherstonhaugh. (1925)
• History of the 72nd Canadian Infantry Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada (1920) by Bernard McEvoy and Capt. A. H. Finlay, M.C.
• The Real Origins, and History of the Begging of the Black Watch By Spañiard
• The Royal Regiment of Scotland
  Information on the regiment,
• The Scottish Military Tradition in Canada
  By George F.G. Stanley
• General Sir Alan Cameron K.C.B.
  Colonel 79th Cameron Highlanders
• Brigadier MacKintosh of Borlum
• General Sir Herbert MacPherson V.C., K.C.B., K.S.I.
• Adventures of Donald MacLeod (pdf)
• The Scottish Soldiers of Fortune
  Their adventures and achievements in the armies of Europe by James Grant (1889)
• A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain
  Commanded by his Excellency Lieut.-General Sir James Moore by James Moore 4th Ed. (1809) (pdf)
• Seaforth Highlanders
  August 1914 to April 1916 (pdf)
• The Argyllshire Highlanders
  The First Highland Regiment.
• Territorial Soldiering in the North East of Scotland during 1759 - 1814
  By John Malcolm Bulloch, M.A. (1914)
• Tommy MacPherson

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