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With the third major round of cuts in 1967 it was announced that the 1st Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was to disband, thus ending nearly three hundred years of service to the Crown. The disbandment parade, in the form of a Conventicle, took place on the holm at Douglas on 14 May 1968. Fittingly the salute was taken by the then Earl of Angus, the 14th Duke of Hamilton (1903-1973). In his sermon The Reverend Donald MacDonald, a much loved former Chaplain to both regular battalions, said: " ... So put pride in your step Cameronians! As you march out of the Army List, you are marching into history, and from your proud place there, no man can remove your name, and no man can snatch a rose from the chaplet of your honour." It is interesting to note in these clips the soldiers are not wearing Cameronian cap badges but the badge of the 52nd Lowland Volunteers.In 1958 The Cameronians, The King's Own Scottish Borderers, The Royal Scots Fusiliers and The Royal Scots adopted the Brigade cap badge common to all, the saltire of St. Andrew, superimposed on this a thistle within a circlet which was inscribed with the motto of the Order of the Thistle, "nemo me impune lacessit".'NO one provokes me with impunity' the national motto of the Kingdom of Scotland. Cap badge of the Cameronians post 1958