13th May 2007
9.30am Cameronian Flag raised at Douglas Victoria Bowling Club
10a.m. Service at St Brides Church
1.45pm Gathering at Cameronian Cairn
2pm Service
Cameronian will be laid to rest during Conventicle
Cameronian Jim Ballantyne
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There will be a particularly poignant moment during next month's annual Cameronian Conventicle at Douglas.
As in past years, former members of Clydesdale's 'own' regiment, their families and friends will gather at the place of its founding over 300 years ago to commemorate the decades of service the regiment gave the country and to remember the literally thousands of Cameronians who died in action in wars the world over.
On May 13, the Conventicle will see one more 'Cam' finally laid to rest, the ashes of former Cameronian Association secretary Jim Ballantyne, who died last year, will be scattered during the annual Conventicle ceremony at the special regimental memorial cairn erected in the Douglas and Angus Estates.
The ceremony will take place at 2pm, preceded by the traditional morning commemoration Service at St Bride's Church in Douglas, starting at 10am.
Carluke & Lanark Gazette 26/4/07
Anniversaries
2nd August 2007
60th Anniversary of the Cameronians (SR) receiving the Freedom of Lanark
There will be a Sunday morning service held on the 5th August 2007 in the St Nicholas Church, Lanark
Cameronians Sunday 2008 will be celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Disbandment of the 1st Battalion
Presentation to
Douglas Heritage Museum
June 2006
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Douglas Museum Sunday 4th June 2006
Opening address was by Mr Alan Halliday Vice Chairman of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and Family Members Organisation. He welcomed all of those attending and what a pleasure it was to be there for the presentation of treasured family Cameronian items for safe keeping and donation to the museum.
Rifleman John McMinn donated a framed map of the 7th Battalion (Scottish Rifles) progress across Europe during WWII. Also a book on the Normandy Landings in June 1944.
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Sergeant John Todd Royal Logistic Corps presented service documents of his grandfather who was medically discharged in 1915 after being wounded in action he then reenlisted in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and was discharged again when his previous discharge was noted. Also included was the 1915 equivalent of the family “allowance book” used by his grandmother at Govan Post Office in Glasgow
Louise, Carolyn and Dorothy Ellis donated their late fathers Battle Dress Jacket and webbing pouches. The jacket bore the insignia “MOUNTAIN” indicating the training undertaken prior to the assault on Walchern Island out side Antwerp in Belgium.
Captain Andy McArthur TD RLC gifted a WWI Cameronians (SR) New Testament bearing the name Company Sergeant Major Roger Stewart dated 1915, a WWI Cameronians (SR) Christmas Card and a hand embroidered ladies handkerchief with the Cameronians Star dated 1940.
The closing address was taken by David Skidmore Chairman of the Douglas Museum. He spoke of the gratitude of the Museum for the donations and how the Museum benefits from the generosity of the donors.The Cameronian flag was raised on the flagpole at Douglas Victoria Bowling Club at appox' 9.15am. The morning service was held in St. Brides Church at 10am.
In the afternoon the service moved to the Cameronian Cairn in the Douglas & Angus Estate grounds near Castle Dangerous, where there was another service at 2pm.
Cameronian Sunday
Annual Commemorative Service
14th May 2006
Cameronian friends gather
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A moments reflection before the service
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Cameronians on parade
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The service begins with the pipes and the association flag
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Colin McCready lays the Cameronian wreath
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David Mundell MP lays a wreath at the Cairn
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Andy Berry, retiring chairman of the Friends and Family Association,
proudly oversees the service parade
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Cameronian Cairn
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The carved stone plaque on the Cairn reads as follows...
HERE ON THE 14TH MAY 1968
WITHIN A MILE OF THE SPOT WHERE
THE 26TH CAMERONIAN REGIMENT
WAS RAISED BY THE EARL OF ANGUS
ON 14TH MAY 1689.
THE 1ST BN CAMERONIAN (SCOTTISH RIFLES)
HELD A CONVENTICLE
AND LOWERED THE REGIMENT FLAG
TO MARK ITS DISBANDMENT
ON ORDERS OF THE GOVERNMENT.
ERECTED BY
LANARKSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
IN TOKEN OF ITS HIGH REGARD
FOR THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICES
OF THEIR COUNTY REGIMENT
DURING NEARLY THREE CENTURIES.
THIS MONUMENT WAS UNVEILED BY
COLONEL THE LORD CLYDESMUIR
C.B. M.B.E. T.D.
LORD LIEUTENANT OF LANARKSHIRE
Cameronian Scottish Rifles
Earl of Angus Statue
Inscriptions around the base of statue read as follows -
JAMES
EARL OF ANGUS
SON OF
THE MARQUIS OF DOUGLAS
BORN 1671
KILLED AT THE BATTLE
OF SEINKIRK
WHEN IN COMMAND OF
THE CAMERONIAN REGIMENT
1692
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THE TWENTY SIXTH
OR
CAMERONIAN REGIMENT
RAISED BY
THE EARL OF ANGUS
WAS FIRST MUSTERED
NEAR THIS SPOT
MAY 14 1889
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THIS STATUE
TO COMMEMORATE
THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE RAISING
OF
THE SWENTY SIXTH
OR
CAMERONIAN REGIMENT
WHICH BEGAN
IN 1881
THE FIRST BATTALION
THE CAMERONIANS
(SCOTTISH RIFLES)
WAS ERECTED
1892
THOMAS BROCK R.A.
SCULPTOR
Cameronian Sunday
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THE 26TH FOOT, OR CAMERONIAN REGIMENT
was raised on 14 May 1689 in Douglas from the ranks of the Covenanters, taking its name from one of the most famous of their number, Richard Cameron, 'The Lion of the Covenant’.
The Covenanters had fought for - and won - the right to follow their Presbyterian faith and discipline when the Stuart kings tried to impose the Episcopal form of worship upon the Scottish people. Initially organisation of the Regiment was modelled more on a Presbyterian congregation than on normal military lines, and the men were puritans in faith and life.
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