Dimensions 420 x 340 mm. Single leaf broadside, lithographed on both sides; the recto printed in black, blue and red, the verso in black, presented in double column. Slightly marked and browned, with old vertical fold and some creasing.

A handsome, and apparently unrecorded broadside presentation of the colours, honours and (partial) lists of the historical personnel of the 42nd Regiment of Foot, the Royal Highlanders, colloquially known as The Black Watch. With origins in the aftermath of the 1715 Rebellion, as this pictorial record notes, the 42nd Regiment were involved in Wars of the Austrian Succession, 'Campaigns against the North American Indians', the American and French Revolutionary Wars, the Peninsula and later at Waterloo. The regiment had proved pivotal in the Egyptian campaign of 1801; with a Major capturing a French standard at the Battle of Alexandria, before the regiment besieged Cairo and then Alexandria.

Although undated, the Roll of Honour suggests production in the early Victorian era: the right-hand side of the verso of this broadside is devoted to listing the names and distinctions of soldiers and officers in the 1830s; the final dated example of such is Serjeant Neil Cameron, 'Promoted 1840'.