The Gordon Highlanders was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed for 113 years
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Traditional highland attire adopted for the battalion's dress uniform included the Clan Forbes pattern tartan and the glengarry headdress
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Kimberley Scottish - Tartans beginning with 'B' The Gordon Highlanders was aMacKenzie The regiment's origins lie in the early, lawless, diamond rush days in Kimberley in the 1870s. Kimberley later raised two more units, the Victoria Rifles of Kimberley in 1887, and the Kimberley Scots in 1890. They, along with the Diamond Fields Artillery, amalgamated in 1890 to form the Kimberley Rifles, who eventually became the Kimberly Regiment. Regimental traditions have survived from each of the constituent cavalry, artillery and rifle