Black Watch regiment

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What was the Black Watch regiment ? Are they associated with the 'black and tans' ?
Is the regiment still around or has it been disbanded ?

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still around they fought in Iraq

[Mark Sman]

The Black Watch
http://www.army.mod.uk/blackwatch/index.html

In Canada
http://www.blackwatchcanada.com/

Black and Tans
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/black_and_tans.htm

The above site refers to the Royal Ulster Constabulary and then abbreviates it RIC. The correct way would have been to refer to the Royal Irish Constabulary, (RIC). The RUC was what the RIC turned into after partition. Incidentally the RUC is still in existence, although there has been talk of a major reorganization including, possibly, a name change.

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big THANK you.

[Royal]

Incidentally the RUC is still in existence, although there has been talk of a major reorganization including, possibly, a name change.

The RUC ceased to exist in November 2001. Northern Ireland is now policed by the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland).

[StarvingStudent47]

I think they should still wear kilts. It'd give those Iraqis something to talk about.

[Mark Sman]

Thanks Royal. Obviously something I haven't kept up on them.

[DeltaWhisky58]

The Black Watch - The Royal Highland Regiment, or 42nd Foot, are the oldest Highland (kilted) Regiment in the British Army and are very much alive and kicking having fought as part of 7 Armoured Brigade in GW2.

There is/was no association whatsoever with the Black & Tans which were a paramilitary police organisation in Ireland in the 1920s.

1st Bn. The Black Watch has its Regimental HQ and Museum at Balhousie Castle in Perth, and the Regular Battalion is currently serving in Germany based at Falingbostel.

[James]

In WWI the Germans called the soldiers of the Black Watch "The Ladies from Hell". They fought like bastards. Once (Somme or Paschendaele, I can't remember) the Black Watch were getting slaughtered by German Maxim guns. Their chaplain rose up and led them towards their objective. The Black Watch won the fight.

The Black and Tans were British WWI vets hired to fight the IRA in Ireland during the Anglo-Irish war, 1918-1921.

[Nizark]

What was the Black Watch regiment ? Are they associated with the 'black and tans' ?
Is the regiment still around or has it been disbanded ?

black and tans....not a bad beer

[Argyll]

Also known affectionately by other Jock Regiments as "Sheep sha**ers"!!!

[Skott]

According to the Black Watch website they recruit from the whole world, is this really correct? I thought the Brit army only allowed British, Irish and commowealth citizens to join.

By the way, I heard that a number of scottish regiments were to be disband, is this really the case? It had something to do with the British reducing their military prescence in Northern Ireland

[DeltaWhisky58]

1 Bn. The Black Watch currently has a cmopany of Fijian soldiers - as do most Scottish Regiments, and quite a few others in the British Army. As members of the commonwealth, they are elligible for service in the British Forces.

[MARK.TIGGER]

met a texan officer in the Black Watch how he pulled that one I'll never know.

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Deltawhisky58

I'm curious are the Fijians an attached coy or actually members of the RHR? If the later do they wear full regimental kit, kilts et all?