April 5, 2024
ANTIQUE SWAGGER STICK "CUIDICH N RIGH" HELP THE KING
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AN ANTIQUE SWAGGER STICK WHICH CAME IN A PACKAGE BID ON WALKING STICKS FROM AN ESTATE SALE. I'LL GIVE YOU WHAT I HAVE FOUND SO FAR ON RESEARCHING IT. THE "L" AND CROWN ABOVE THE STAG HEAD WAS IN HONOR OF PRINCE LEOPOLD, ALSO KNOW AS THE DUKE OF ALBANY AND YOUNGEST SON OF QUEEN VICTORIA, HE WAS A COLONEL IN CHIEF OF THE SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS IN THE LATE 1800s. /biography/royals/1853leop.htm " Colonel-in-Chief, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) ch 'N Righ" Many of the regimental symbols and traditions are not surprisingly those of the Clan Mackenzie. The regimental motto of the Ross-shire Buffs is "Cuidich 'n Righ" Gaelic for "Help the King". Clan history states that in 1266 King Alexander III of Scotland was charged by a stag while hunting, Colin of Kintail, Chief of the Clan MacKenzie, charged to the King's aid yelling "Cuidich 'n Righ" and with his claymore sword cleaved off the stag's head. The king, as a token of his gratitude, granted the Clan the motto "Cuidich 'n Righ" and the "Cabar Feidh" Gaelic for "the antlers of a stag" as its clan crest. The 78 th adopted the clan crest as it own regimental badge, and the 18 th century pipe tune Cabar Feidh as their Regimental Charge. The 78 th Highland Regiment is the only regiment in the British Army to ever have a Gaelic motto on its colors and regimental
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