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Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
(Nobody Attacks Me With Impunity)
Cameronian Scottish Rifles1689 - 1968Click HERE to read and download the chapter on the Cameronians and the Jacobites from the 1940's book 'Douglasdale'
CAMERONIAN SCOTTISH RIFLES
ANNUAL COMMEMORATION
DOUGLAS
MAY 15th 2011
9.30am Regimental flag raised at the Douglas Victoria Bowling Green
10.00am Morning service in St Brides Church, Braehead, Douglas 2pm Conventicle at the Disbandment Cairn beside Castle Dangerous 4pm Buffet and social afternoon at Douglas Victoria Bowling Club (ADMISSION BY TICKET, £3.00 AT THE DOOR) (arrow on maps denotes the location)
For more Cameronian (SR) & Family Members Organisation information click HERE
Cameronian Sunday
Annual Commemorative Service SUNDAY 16th MAY 2010
9.30am
Regimental flag will be raised at Douglas Victoria Bowling Club
Breahead, Douglas
10am
Service - St Brides Church Braehead, Douglas
1pm
Douglas Heritage Museum
Presentation of a Japanese Samurai Sword to the Douglas Heritage Trust from the family of the late Mr Fred Patterson who was gifted this sword after the hostilities in Burma in 1945
2 - 3pm
Conventicle - Cameronian Disbandment Cairn, Douglas
Lead by the Rev Robert Cleland
There will be a buffet at Douglas Victoria Bowling Club at the conclusion of the days events - £3
Cameronian Sunday
Annual Commemorative Service
The Annual Cameronian Commemorative Service will be held on the 17th May 2009. Cameronian Sunday
Annual Commemorative Service
SUNDAY 11th MAY 2008
St Brides Church, Douglas - 10am Service
THE CAMERONIANS (SCOTTISH RIFLES)
ALL RANKS REUNION There will be a reunion for all members of the Regiment on Cameronian Sunday 2008 to mark the 40th anniversary of the disbandment of the 1st Battalion in addition to commemorating the raising of the Regiment, followed by the annual commemoration ceremony at the disbandment cairn.
Cameronian Disbandment Cairn, Douglas - 2pm Service
 To view Carluke & Lanark Gazette pictures from this years anniversary service, click HERE
To read an excerpt from the Carluke & Lanark Gazette newspaper from this years anniversary service, click HERE For more articles from the Carluke & Lanark Gazette click HERE Click HERE for home video recording (YouTube)
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
© of Lindsay Addison
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  © of Lindsay Addison
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.  © of Lindsay Addison
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
© of Lindsay Addison  A moments reflection before the service
© of Lindsay Addison  Cameronians on parade
© of Lindsay Addison  The service begins with the pipes and the association flag
© of Lindsay Addison  Colin McCready lays the Cameronian wreath
© of Lindsay Addison  David Mundell MP lays a wreath at the Cairn
© of Lindsay Addison  Andy Berry, retiring chairman of the Friends and Family Association,
proudly oversees the service parade
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