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May, as part of cutbacks to the British Army, The Cameronians Scottish Rifles was disbanded at a moving ceremony held at the same spot in Douglas in Lanarkshire at which it had been raised in.
And yet, although the regiment is no more, its place in history is unassailable, The ceremony embraced the history of one regiment, The Cameronians, which had its origins in the turbulent period that accompanied the rise of the House of Orange at the end of the seventeenth century, while its other component part theth Perthshire Light Infantry was raised as a light infantry regiment during the war against Revolutionary France.


Following amalgamation in, The Cameronians Scottish Rifles quickly built up a solid reputation as a fighting regiment, During the First World War it raisedbattalions and during the Second World War its battalions served in Europe and Burma, In the course of its long history, the regiment provided the British Army with many distinguished soldiers including three field marshals: Viscounts Hill and Wolseley and Sir Evelyn Wood.


Always tough and enduring in battle, it reflected the character of its main recruitment area Glasgow and Lanarkshire and in later years it took selfconscious pride when the Germans nicknamed its soldiers Giftzwerge, or poison dwarfs.


The Cameronians puts its story into the context of British military history and makes use of

personal testimony to reveal the life of the regiment.
Trevor Royle is a broadcaster and author specialising in the history of war and empire, He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and was a member of the Scottish Governments Advisory Panel for Commemorating the First World War, .