Category: 114th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highlander Volunteers)

Categories: British Army

This category contains profiles of those who served in the 114th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highlander Volunteers)

Please note, do not confuse with the 114th Regiment of Foot

The 114th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highlander Volunteers) was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1761 to 1763.

It was raised in October 1761, by Sir Allan MacLean of Torloisk. MacLean's own commission was dated 17 October 1761. He selected the Honourable William Boyd, George Sutherland, James Stewart, John Forbes and Robert Campbell as Captains, and appointed James Gray to Captain-Lieutenant to command his own company. For his staff officers he chose George Douglas and John Duncanson, with John McArthur as his adjutant. [Allan Maclean jacobite general The Life of an Eighteenth Century Career Soldier Mary Beacock Fryer, Dundurn Press Toronto and Oxford 1987 https://epdf.pub/allan-maclean-jacobite-general-the-life-of-an-eighteenth-century-career-soldier.html]

The regiment was disbanded in 1763. It had no active service.


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Person Profiles (1)

1725 Torloisk, Isle of Mull, Scotland - Mar 1797




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