"The Badges of the Highland Regiments," Inverness Courier, May 1, 1900, p. xx, an article from Pall Mall Magazine.   [John Pearson wrote: Readying this took work; I forgot to note the page no., scanned too small and too light, trying to pack onto two pages, apparently omitted a line of a page bottom [see brackets]. So, several Latin and Gaelic words may be incorrectly spelled. While the article doesn't mention any badge changes during Crimea, I thought the history of the regimental insignia and mottoes might interesting for the CWRS. Badge histories for these regiments are summarized: Black Watch, Seaforths, Gordons, Camerons, and Argyll & Sutherlands.]   "The badges of the Highland and Scottish regiments afford much matter for romantic meditation. The oldest Highland regiment in the service - the Black Watch, a famous name originating from the predominance of black, blue, and green in the dress of the members of the corps when first formed - possesses a badge in the Royal cypher within the garter, and the crown over. Its other badges are the St Andrew and cross badge, and the motto of the Order of the Thistle - 'Nemo me impune lacessit' - and the sphinx, a badge granted to each of the thirty regiments which took part in the expedition to Egypt at the beginning of the century. The Black Watch specially distinguished itself before Alexandria, where it conquered a French demi-brigade known as 'the Invincibles', whose standard the Scotsmen captured.   In general interest the badges and mottoes of the Seaforth Highlanders are second to none in the service. When Alexander III was hunting in Kintail with a large retinue of Highland chiefs, he came up with the hounds as they pulled down an immense stag royal. The King, drawing his 'skean dhu', ran up just as the stag shook off the deerhounds; and, turning on him, it hurled him prostrate with a blow of its antlers. The Chief of the Mackenzies shouted 'Cuidich'n Righ!' ('Help to the King!'), and at the same time, grasping the stag by the horns and killing it with a thrust of his hunting-spear, he saved the King's life. Ever since that time the stag's head and antlers (Gaelic, 'Cabar Feidh') have been the cognisance of the Clan Mackenzie, who are still commonly spoken off [sic] throughout the Highlands as the 'Cabarfaes'. The 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders was raised by the Earl of Seaforth from the Clan Mackenzie and allied septs in 1778. It was first called Seaforth's Highlanders, but afterwards numbered the 78th, and renumbered the 72nd on the reduction of the army in 1785. Its badge was a very handsome stag's head with an escroll below bearing the words 'Cabar Feidh'. (The old battle-cry of the battalion was ('Cabar Feidh gu Brath!' - 'The Stag's Head for Ever!') In 1823 the Duke of York and Albany became honorary colonel, and the title Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders was bestowed on the regiment, and the Duke's cypher, 'F', generally surmounted with his coronet, was introduced as an ornament on the colours, between the horns of the badge, and on various appointments. A silver St Andrew's cross had previously appeared on certain appointments, and it was now enhanced by being surcharged by a cypher and coronet within a wreath on a green ground, and is still retained in silver on a gold thistle on the front of the officers' round forage-cap. Before the reorganisation of the army in 1881, the Glengarry badge was a beautiful stag's head, with an 'F' between the antlers, and a separate escroll with 'Cabar Feidh'. The collar-badge was a miniature stag's head with the motto, and made a handsome scarf-pin. It was mounted in this way by nearly all the discharged Highlanders.   The badge of the 2nd Battalion, which was raised, as the 1st Battalion had been, amongst the Mackenzies and their allies, in 1783, by Francis Humberston Mackenzie, afterwards Earl of Seaforth, also had the stag's head and antlers as a badge, with the motto 'Cuidich'n Righ'. Its valour at Assaye gained for it the additional decoration of the elephant, superscribed 'Assaye', and the exceptional honour, shared with the 71st, of carrying a third colour, which it still retains. Prior to 1881 the battalion wore the stag's head and scroll with 'Cuidich'n Righ' in the Glengarry, and with the elephant as a collar-badge. In that year the two battalions were linked, and called 'The Seaforth Highlanders' (Ross-shire Buffs, the Duke of Albany's), and nearly all the ornaments were altered. The Glengarry and bonnet-badge for the rank and file is now supposed to represent a stag's head, with a ribbon bearing the motto 'Cuidich'n Righ', but 'being a tawdry trinket, stamped from a bit of tin, and valued at two-pence farthing, it can scarcely be called handsome, and when first issued it was received with unconcealed disgust.' The officers have the word 'Assaye' under the elephant; but this should have been superscribed. The officers' Glengarry and bonnet-badge was a handsome silver stag's head, with the initial 'F' and coronet between the horns, and a ribbon inscribed 'Cuidich'n Righ'. In consequence, however, of the great liking the late Duke of Albany had for the 1st Battalion, and the prominent part it took at his marriage and afterwards at his funeral, the Queen desired that her son's initial might be substituted for the 'F' on certain appointments, and accordingly, the initial on the Glengarry badge and on the brooch and buttons was changed to 'L', although the 'F' still remains on the plates of the cross-belts and the buff waist-belt. The plate of the dirk-belt shows the usual stag's head; but on the escroll is the word 'Tullochard' ('The High Hill'), the ancient war-cry of the Mackenzie Clan, the allusion being to the local mustering-place of the clansmen. The plaid-brooch shows a circle of 'deer's-grass,' the clan badge, bound with a ribbon, on which the honours are inscribed, and surmounted with the stag's head, cypher, and coronet. The officers' round forage-cap shows the elephant and the St Andrew's star. The present boy Duke of Albany generally appears in public in the uniform of the Seaforth Highlanders.   The badge of the Gordon Highlanders embraces the sphinx, superscribed 'Egypt', and the royal tiger, superscribed 'India'. The tiger badge was given to the 1st Battalion on its return home in 1806, in recognition of its nineteen years' service in India. The 1st Battalion was raised by a younger brother of Sir Ralph Abercromby, and the 2nd Battalion (the old 92nd) by the Marquis of Huntly, then an officer in the Foot Guards, who afterwards became colonel of the 92nd and fifth and last Duke of Gordon. The motto of the regiment is 'Bydand' (translated variously as 'Watchful,' 'Bide-a-wee,' and 'Wait a Little'), the motto of the Huntly family, as to the origin of which there are many stories.   The Cameron Highlanders received authority to bear a sphinx, with the word 'Egypt' on their colours and appointments, in commemoration of their gallant services in the expedition to Egypt in 1801, by which the French troops, confidingly described by Napoleon as 'the Invincible Army of the East,' were driven out of the land of the Pharaohs. The Camerons, ever to the fore in battle, were in the thick of the fight as soon as they landed. On March 8th the British troops landed in Aboukir Bay, in the face of the enemy's fire. The old 79th leaped from the boats into the surf, and immediately dashed forward and took the opposing batteries.   The principal badge of the Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) embrace a boar's head, inscribed 'Ne obliviscaris', the crest and motto of the Argyll family; a mountain cat, inscribed 'Sans Peur', the crest and motto of the Sutherland family; and the label of the Princess Louise and her Royal Highness's coronet and cypher. The officers and men of the 1st Battalion (old 91st) sent handsome presents to the Princess Louise on her marriage with the Marquis of Lorne, the officers' gift being received personally by the Queen at Windsor. A picked detachment attended the wedding, and shortly afterwards her Majesty expressed a wish to confer some distinguished mark on the 91st to commemorate the event. The regiment was then clothed and equipped as a non-kilted Highland corps, and it was suggested that it should be allowed to wear the kilt. Her Majesty readily agreed; but the military authorities objected. It was then intimated that the regiment would like to be called 'The Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders', and bear on its colours the boar's head with the motto 'Ne obliviscaris'. To this there could be no objection, and a War Office memorandum of April 2nd, 1872, authorised the regiment to indulge its wish." "Pall Mall Magazine."