92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot

[10] The regiment embarked for Menorca in June 1800[11] and then sailed on to Abu Qir in Egypt in March 1801 to take part in the Egyptian Campaign.

However, on hearing the sound of firing, the regiment saw the commander-in-chief, Sir Ralph Abercromby, passing on his horse and called out to be allowed to return to the line of battle, to which he gave his assent.

[21] The regiment returned to Portugal in September 1810 to resume its service under General Viscount Wellesley in the Peninsular War.

At an early stage, Napoleon's troops attacked the left of the Allied line, and the regiment was ordered to charge the leading French column.

The horses of the Scots Greys passed through the regiment to get to the scattering French troops and press the advantage.

[42] It was deployed to the Ionian Islands in 1851[43] and to Gibraltar in 1853 from where it was dispatched to take part in the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War but saw no serious action.

[44] The regiment embarked for India in January 1858 to help suppress the Indian Rebellion and were engaged in several skirmishes with remaining rebel forces.

[45] In December 1878, the regiment was ordered to Afghanistan where it was engaged in various security operations following the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Afghan War.

[47] At the end of August 1880, the regiment formed part of the force which marched under General Frederick Roberts from Kabul to Kandahar, and at the Battle of Kandahar on 1 September 1880, formed part of the 1st Brigade, which led the advance in sweeping the enemy out of the closely wooded enclosures along the western slopes of the hill on which the village of Gundi Mullah Sahibdad stood.

After capturing the hilltop in order to dominate the Boer line, the force of 350 British soldiers of the 58th and 92nd Regiments including a number of Royal Navy gunners, found themselves exposed to heavy and accurate fire early on the following day.

[2] The Regimental Colours of the 92nd were laid-up in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, some two years later by the Duke of Cambridge, where they remain to the present day.

Portrait of George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon , founder of the regiment, by Thomas Lawrence
Gordons and Greys to the Front , an 1898 painting by Stanley Berkeley , showing the incident at Waterloo, when the 92nd joined the charge of the Scots Greys by hanging on to their stirrups in June 1815
A green, blue and black tartan with a thin yellow over-check
The tartan of the 92nd, based on Black Watch but with a yellow over-check, and a single black overcheck converted to double like the rest of the black over-checks in the design. In modified form, the 92nd tartan became the main Clan Gordon pattern.
92nd Gordon Highlanders at Edinburgh Castle , 1846
92nd Highlanders at Kandahar in September 1880 by Richard Caton Woodville .
An artist's impression of the last stand at Majuba Hill in February 1881
Major George Stewart White VC