The history of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada. Volume Set 3. : 1759-2021 / Roman Johann Jarymowycz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jarymowycz, Roman Johann, 1945-2017, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armed Forces.

Canada--Armed Forces.

Canada.

Canada--History, Military.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1398 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : The Royal Highlanders of Canada, [2023]

Summary:

Roman Jarymowycz recounts the story of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada in three volumes, tracing its history from the roots to present day. Through diaries, letters, classified documents, and the regimental archive, he weaves the strands of a complex story into an epic narrative.

Contents:

Cover

Volume 1

Cover

The History of The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada Volume I: 1759-1939

Title

Copyright

Dedication

FOREWORD

CONTENTS

LIST OF APPENDICES

LIST OF MAPS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTE ON MILITARY RANKS

PART I THE ORIGINS OF MONTREAL'S HIGHLAND REGIMENT 1759-1914

CHAPTER 1 THE SCOTTISH MILITARY TRADITION IN QUEBEC

The First Scottish Colonies - Quebec City and Tadoussac

Scottish Seigneuries Near Quebec and Montreal

Highlanders and Orkneymen: Scottish Commerce and Martial Style

The Quebec Militia 1763-1812

The War of 1812 - First Scottish Militia Companies

Battle of Châteauguay 1813, First Battle Honour

The Highland Rifle Company and The Montreal Light Infantry

Act of Union 1840 - Militia Reorganization

The 1855 Militia Act and The Highland Rifle Company

CHAPTER 2 THE 5TH BATTALION, THE ROYAL LIGHT INFANTRY OF MONTREAL

1862 - Lieutenant Colonel Routh Raises The Royals

The First Regimental Colours, 11 October 1862

The US Civil War and Fenian Terrorists: 1864-1870

More Fenians: 1870

The First Dominion Militia Act, 22 May 1868

Vengeance and Regimental Reorganization: 1871-1875

A Scottish Rifle Corps

CHAPTER 3 FROM SHAKO TO GLENGARRY - BECOMING HIGHLAND

The Royal Scots of Canada, 1884

The Black Watch Tartan

Regimental Commanders During Transition: 1875-1890

Lieutenant Colonel EAC Campbell, 1882-84

Lieutenant Colonel Frank Caverhill, 1884-91 - "Greatly Beloved"

The Strathy Affair - Lieutenant Colonel JAL Strathy, 1893-97

The Strathy Cup

The Court of Inquiry, March - April 1897

CHAPTER 4 THE 5TH ROYAL SCOTS - A ROBUST HIGHLAND REGIMENT

The New Guard 1897 - Lieutenant Colonel EB Ibbotson, 1897-1901

International Triumph: Portland 1898

South Africa 1900: The Second Battle Honour.

The Quest for "Highland Status"

Aid to the Civil Power: Valleyfield, October 1900

Lieutenant Colonel Carson's Burgeoning Battalions

Borden: The First Militia Council

The Armoury Realized 1906: 5th Regiment Royal Highlanders of Canada (RHC)

Lieutenant Colonel Carson vs The Minister of Militia and Defence

CHAPTER 5 STRIKERS, RIOTS AND AID TO THE CIVIL POWER - 1864 TO 1903

Splendid Field Trips: From St Helen's Island to New York, 1878-1909

Grand Parades: 1909 Tercentenaries

Affiliation with The Imperial Black Watch

The Pipes, The Pipes

Regimental Dress: Highlander's Toil

CHAPTER 6 TRAINING THE REGIMENT 1862-1914

Lieutenant Colonel George Stephen Cantlie, 1910-51

Preparation: The Black Watch's Rose

The 1912 Colours: Fletcher's Field

Training for War: A Changing Militia, 1862-1914

The Cheese Factory: Getting Ready for the Kaiser

NOTES TO PART I

PART I - ILLUSTRATIONS

PART II THE ROYAL HIGHLANDERS IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919

CHAPTER 7 RUSHING TO FRANCE

Montreal - a Battalion Factory

The First Contingent: Raising a Fighting Battalion - The 13th as RHC

Mobilization Schemes and the Second Contingent - The 42nd Battalion RHC

The 73rd Battalion RHC

The 13th Battalion in England

A Division for War

CHAPTER 8 YPRES - THE 13TH BATTALION RHC

The Second Battle of Ypres, April 1915: Empire Recognition

The Horrid Cloud

Norsworthy's Supports - First Contact with the German Army

Afternoon 22 April: A Threatened Garrison - An Isolated Front Line

McCuaig Defends the Flank: 22 April

Fred Fisher Saves 10th Field Battery: Afternoon 22 April

The Apex - Morning, 23 April

"About Turn!" The Deteriorating Apex: 9 am to Midnight, 23 April

A New Line and Gas Attack - Dawn 24 April

Bloody Withdrawal: 24-26 April

The Cost of Battle

L'Envoi.

CHAPTER 9 FROM MOUNT SORREL TO THE SOMME - AN ANNUS HORRIBILIS

The 13th and 42nd Battalions Royal Highlanders of Canada in France

George Cantlie and the 42nd

Tartan Envy

The New Corps, a New Division, a New Brigade

Mount Sorrel - The June Show

The 13th Battalion Captures Observatory Ridge

Tactical Revolution: The Belgian Rattlesnake

The Somme Battles September-October 1916

The 42nd Attacks Fabeck Graben and Regina Trench, 15-17 September 1916

13th RHC at Regina Trench - 8 October 1916

Somme Epilogue

CHAPTER 10 VIMY AND PASSCHENDAELE

Red Hackles and Balmorals - November 1916 and November 1917

The Lice That Live in the Folds of the Earth

Commanding the Infantry Battalion

Vimy Ridge 9 April 1917

73rd RHC in the Great Raid

Rehearsals and Tunnels at Vimy

The Vimy Assault 9 April 1917

Major Norsworthy Protects the Division Flank: The 42nd at Hill 145

73rd Battalion is Let Go - Conscription's Victim

Currie Becomes Corps Commander - Hill 70 15-17 August

Back to Ypres: Passchendaele October 1917

The 42nd RHC: The Capture and Defence of Graf House - 3 November 1917

CHAPTER 11 THE BLACK WATCH AND THE HUNDRED DAYS - AUGUST TO NOVEMBER 1918

Raids

Regimental Life

The Hundred Days: 8 August - 11 November 1918

The Battle of Arras - to the DQ Line 27-28 August 1918

Battle of the Drocourt-Quéant Line 2 September - 4 September 1918

The Canal du Nord and Cambrai: Breaking the Marcoing Line 27 September - 2 October 1918

13th Battalion Crosses the Canal

Marcoing Line 29 September: Ewing vs. the Brigadier

13th Battalion Crashes Through: Blécourt, 1 October 1918

Post Mortems

CHAPTER 12 THE INFLUENCE OF THE GREAT WAR

Mons to Germany - The Black Watch Ends The Great War

Battalion Colours - Earned in Battle

The 20th Reserve Battalion, RHC - a Unique Entity.

Rococo War Diaries and Talented Men

The Esprit de Corps - From Beer to Red Hackle

The Canadian Corps and The Black Watch

Seven Black Watch Units: Statistics 1914-1919

Goodbye to All That

NOTES TO PART II

PART II - ILLUSTRATIONS

PART II - MAPS

PART III THE BLACK WATCH BETWEEN THE WARS 1919-1939

CHAPTER 13 AFTER THE GREAT WAR 1919-1939

"The Royal Highlanders of Canada" 1920 - Post War Regimental Reorganization

Remembrance: The 42nd Window and War Memorials in Verdun and Montreal 1921 and 1924

The Verdun and Montreal Memorials

CHAPTER 14 TRAINING THE POST WAR MILITIA - BUDGETS AND SUMMER CAMPS

The International Highlanders: American Excursions

The Silver Inkstand: A Mysterious Legacy

Mystery Unsolved - Major William Gordon Peterson

Regimental Writings

CHAPTER 15 THE CANADIAN BLACK WATCH: NEW TITLES AND NEW COLOURS - 1931-1935

The Canadian Black Watch, 1930

The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, 1935

The Red Hackle and the Pre War RHC

The Regimental Church

Colours for the 2nd Battalion RHC

An Order of Divine Service: Laying Up the Old Colours, 1932

CHAPTER 16 REGIMENTAL CADET CORPS 1890-1936

The Montreal Highland Cadet Corps

Bishop's College School - Almost a Regimental Depot

The Other "Regimental" Schools

CHAPTER 17 A SOCIAL AND CITY REGIMENT - INTER-WAR ACTIVITIES

Exotic Guests: Prince Takamatsu and Montagu Allan

Exotic Highland Guests: The Duke of Montrose

Adding to Deserved Glory: Black Watch VCs

Colonel Arthur Lennox Mills, a Brief Tour 1931-32

Victoria Cross Tablets and Lieutenant Colonel WS MacTier

Fleming and the Imperials

The Cantlie Dinner 1935 - A Half Century and A Regimental Centennial

CHAPTER 18 SPORTS AND MILITARY DIVERSIONS - DEALING WITH THE GREAT DEPRESSION

The Social Whirl: Polo at Saraguay.

Black Watch Associations - Toronto and Montreal

Dress Regulations: Red Hackle and Stewart Tartan

Camps and Militia Duty

CHAPTER 19 THE LAST DAYS BEFORE THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Sergeant, Colonel, Bert Howard, 1936

Militia Patchwork 1936-38

Blackader Hosts a Last Reunion Dinner

The King and the Colonel-in-Chief Visit

The Regiment's Organization and Structure circa 1939

Coda - The Black Watch Between Two Wars …

NOTES TO PART III

APPENDICES

INDEX

Volume 2

The History of The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada Volume II: 1939-1945

PART IV THE ROYAL HIGHLANDERS OF CANADA IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945

CHAPTER 1 MOBILIZATION AND GUARDING CANALS, 1 RHC MOBILIZED - AUGUST 1939

First Division Mobilized

1 RHC Mobilized for 2nd Canadian Infantry Division

5th Brigade, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division

The Provisional Officers Training School

Struggles at the Home Front, 1940

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir

Waiting to be Mobilized, 2 RHC, 1940

The Summer of 1940 - Modern War Realized

Colonel Hutchison and the Home Front

The 2nd Battalion RHC: March 1942 to July 1943

2 RHC 1942

2 RHC Disbanded July 1943

Wartime Training 1943 to 1944 - Nothing to Snuff at …

Montreal and the Second World War

Hutchison's Highland Mafia

Ravenscrag, Beer and Highland Cadets

Retrospect: The Home Front 1939-1944

CHAPTER 2 REGIMENTAL COMMANDERS, 1939-1944: DIEPPE, ITALY AND UK

The Battalion in Aldershot, England

Dramatis Personae

Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Gault Blackader and his Regiment, 1940-42

Six Out-Sourced Black Watch Officers in the Mediterranean

Lieutenant Colonel Jim Weir, The Cape Breton Highlanders

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Boyd Somerville, The Cape Breton Highlanders.

Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Doucet OBE, The Perth Regiment.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Jarymowycz, Roman Johann The History of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada

ISBN:

9780228017202

OCLC:

1453644897