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The official web page for the Black Watch is here. Service records can be traced with the help of The Museum of the Black Watch Buy 42nd Royal Highlanders Recordings The 42nd Regiment of Foot In the year 1739 the six independant companies of the Highland Watchalong with four newlyraised companies were incorporated into a Regiment of Foot under John the Earl of Crawford. This Regiment wasoriginally numbered the 43rd Highland Regiment but was renumbered as the 42nd in 1749. The new Regiment continued to serve as the Highland Watch in Scotland but the British commandsent the regiment as reinforcements in Flanders and Germany in the warof the Austrian Succession.