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5th Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force)
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada is a reserve infantry regiment in 34 Canadian Brigade Group
Initially the unit did not recruit from the Gurkhas
The Scottish Rifles became a separate regiment in 1901 as the 5th N
when the 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch) was amalgamated with the 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot
MURRAY OF ATHOLL (ANCIENT) [non-wool] - Tartans beginning with 'P' 5th Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force)Also known as Atholl District tartan. James Logan suggested that the tartan derived from the Black Watch and that Lord Murray, who commanded the regiment, introduced the red lines. William & Andrew Smith in their 1850 publication say: "The genuineness of our specimen . . . is confirmed by the description which Colonol Stewart gives of the philibeg of the 42nd, when that regiment was first embodied, He says "Lord George Murray gave the Atholl Tartan
