Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders | |
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![]() Cap Badge of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders | |
Active | 1793โ1961 |
Country | ![]() ![]() |
Branch | ![]() |
Type | Infantry |
Role | Line infantry |
Part of | Highland Brigade |
Garrison/HQ | Cameron Barracks, Inverness |
Motto(s) | Pro rege et patria (For King and country) |
March | Quick (band): The Cameron Highlanders Quick (pipes): Pibroch Domhnall Dubh Slow (band): Logie o' Buchan |
Commanders | |
Colonel-in-Chief | Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh |
Insignia | |
Tartan | ![]() Cameron of Erracht[1] |
Pipers | Royal Stuart tartan |
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders or 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793. It amalgamated with the Seaforth Highlanders (the Duke of Albany's) to form the Queen's Own Highlanders in 1961.