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The Royal
Scots
(The Royal Regiment)
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Regimental Crest |
United
Kingdom
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1625.03.28 |
John Hepburn's
Regiment |
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1627 |
entered
Danish service |
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1630 |
entered
Swedish service, formed with Mackay's Highlanders (raised 1626),
Stargate's Corps, and Lumsden's Musketeers, the Green
or Scots Brigade |
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1633 |
remnants
of Green Brigade merged into Hepburn's Regt |
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1633.01.26 |
Royal Regiment
of Foot
placed on Scottish establishment for King Charles
I's Scottish coronation |
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1635 |
Régiment de
Hebron [Hepburn]
entered French service |
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1637 |
Régiment de
Douglas |
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1655.10.21 |
Régiment de
Dumbarton |
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1662 |
transferred
to English service; ranked as 1st regiment of foot |
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1662 |
returned
to French service |
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1667 |
returned
to English service for Dutch
war |
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1667 |
returned
to French service |
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1678 |
returned
to English Establishment |
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1684.05.01 |
His Majesty's
Royal Regiment of Foot
also known until 1751 by the names of colonels |
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1747 |
ranked
as 1st Foot |
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1751.07.01 |
1st (Royal)
Regiment of Foot |
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1812.02.11 |
1st Regiment
of Foot (Royal Scots) |
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1821.08.29 |
1st, or The
Royal Regiment of Foot |
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1871.12.15 |
1st, or The
Royal Scots Regiment |
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1881.07.01 |
The Royal Scots
(Lothian Regiment)
reorganised as the county regiment of Edinburgh
(Midlothian), Haddingtonshire (East Lothian), Linlithgow (West Lothian),
and Berwickshire, encompassing also its Militia and infantry volunteers
[see below] |
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1887.05.01 |
Berwickshire
transferred to King's Own Scottish Borderers
district |
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1921.01.01 |
The Royal Scots
(The Royal Regiment) |
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2006.03.28 |
united with The Royal Highland Fusiliers,
The King's Own Scottish Borderers,
The Black Watch, The
Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons), and The
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, to form The
Royal Regiment of Scotland |
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History
of the Regiment (Regimental site) |
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The
Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment), by M.M. Haldane (The Lowland
Scots Regiments, 1918) |
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Regimental
History (Lord Orkney's Regiment) |
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The
Royal Scots (Scottish Military Historical Society) |
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The
Royal Scots, by Diana M. Henderson (Scots at War)
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The
Royal Scots (Edinburgh Tattoo)
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The
Royal Scots, by Glenvil Roberts.
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The
Royal Scots, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great
War). |
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The
Royal Scots, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
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The
Royal Scots 1914-18, by Paul Reed |
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The
Royal Scots, by Dave Depickere (World War II Analyzed) |
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RHQ and
Depot: |
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RHQ: The Castle, Edinburgh |
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? Depot Battalion
[1856-1871]
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62nd Brigade
Depot at Glencorse [1873-1881] |
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1st Regimental
District at Glencorse [1881-1905] |
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B Group
at Edinburgh [1946-1948] |
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Lowland
Brigade at Melton Bridge [1948-1968] |
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Scottish
Division at Edinburgh [1968-2006] |
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Regulars: |
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1st
Battalion [1625-2006] |
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2nd
Battalion [1686-1949] |
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3rd
Battalion [1804-1817] |
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4th
Battalion [1804-1816] |
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Militia
and Special Reserve: |
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3rd Battalion (The Edinburgh,
or Queen's Regt of Light Infantry) [1881-1953]
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Lineage
(Scottish Military Historical Society)
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Territorials
and Volunteers: |
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Lineage,
1859-1908 (Scottish Military Historical Society)
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[1st VB] 1st
Edinburgh (City) Rifle Volunteer Corps (The Queen's City of Edinburgh
Rifle Volunteer Brigade) [1881-1888] |
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[1st VB] 1st
Battalion, The Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade [1888-1908]
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[2nd VB] 2nd
Edinburgh (City) Rifle Volunteer Corps [1881-1888] |
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[2nd VB] 2nd
Battalion, The Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade [1888-1908]
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[3rd VB] 1st
Midlothian (Leith) Rifle Volunteer Corps [1881-1888] |
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[3rd VB] 3rd
Battalion, The Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade [1888-1908] |
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[4th VB] 2nd
Midlothian (Midlothian and Peebles-shire) Rifle Volunteer Corps
[1881-1888] |
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4th
Volunteer Battalion [1888-1908] |
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[5th VB] 1st
Berwickshire Rifle Volunteer Corps [1881-1887] |
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5th
Volunteer Battalion [1888-1908] |
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[6th VB] 1st
Haddington Rifle Volunteer Corps [1881-1888] |
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6th
Volunteer Battalion [1888-1908] |
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[7th VB] 1st
Linlithgowshire Rifle Volunteer Corps [1881-1888] |
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7th
Volunteer Battalion [1888-1908] |
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8th
Volunteer Battalion [1888-1908] |
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9th
Volunteer Battalion (Highlanders) [1900-1908] |
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4th
Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh) [1908-1921] |
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4th/5th
Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh) [1921-1940] |
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5th
Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh) [1908-1921] |
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6th
Battalion [1908-1920] |
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7th
Battalion [1908-1921] |
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7th/9th
(Highlanders) Battalion [1921-1961] |
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8th
Battalion [1908-1920, 1947-1961] |
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8th/9th
Battalion [1961-1967, 1969-1971] |
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9th
(Highlanders) Battalion [1908-1921] |
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10th
(Cyclist) Battalion [1908-1920] |
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The
Royal Scots and Cameronians Territorials [1967-1969] |
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52nd
Lowland Volunteers [1967-1999] |
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52nd
Lowland Regiment [1999-2006] |
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Hostilities-Only
Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates):
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2/4th Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh Rifles)
[1914-1918] |
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4th (Reserve) Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh
Rifles) [1915-1919] |
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2/5th Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh Rifles)
[1914-1915] |
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5th (Reserve) Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh
Rifles) [1915-1916] |
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2/6th Battalion [1915-1915] |
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6th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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2/7th Battalion [1914-1918] |
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7th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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2/8th Battalion [1914-1917] |
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8th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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8th
(Lothians and Peebleshire) Battalion [1939-1946] |
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2/9th (Highlanders) Battalion
[1914-19188] |
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9th (Reserve) (Highlanders) Battalion
[1915-1917] |
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2/10th (Cyclist) Battalion [1914-1917]
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10th (Home Defence) Battalion
[1939-1941] |
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11th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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11th (Home Defence) Battalion
[1939-1940] |
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12th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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12th Battalion [1940-1942] |
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13th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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14th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1915]
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15th (1st Edinburgh) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1918] |
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16th (2nd Edinburgh) (Service) Battalion
[1915-1918] |
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17th (Rosebery) (Service) Battalion
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18th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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19th (Labour) Battalion [1916-1917]
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30th Battalion [1941-1943] |
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50th (Service) Battalion [1940-1940]
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1st Garrison Battalion [1915-1919]
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2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion
[1916-1917] |
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No. 1 Independent Company (Royal Scots)
[1943-1945?] |
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No. 2 Independent Company (Royal Scots)
[1943-1945?] |
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No. 3 Independent Company (Royal Scots)
[1943-1945?] |
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Tangier
1680, Namur 1695,
Blenheim, Ramillies,
Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Louisburg,
Havannah, Egmont-op-Zee,
[Egypt]1,
St Lucia 1803,
Corunna, Busaco, Salamanca, Vittoria, San Sebastian, Nive, Peninsula,
Niagara, Waterloo,
Nagpore, Maheidpoor,
Ava,
Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol,
Taku Forts, Pekin 1860,
South Africa 1899-1902
The Great War (33 battalions): Mons,
Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne
1914, La Bassée 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres 1915 '17 '18,
Gravenstafel, St Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Festubert
1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Pozičres,
Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18,
Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Pilckem, Langemarck
1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai
1917, St Quentin, Rosičres, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918,
Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Béthune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois,
Amiens, Bapaume 1918, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du
Nord, St Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France
and Flanders 1914-18, Struma,
Macedonia 1915-18, Helles,
Landing at Helles, Krithia, Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli
1915-16, Rumani,
Egypt 1915-16, Gaza,
El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jaffa, Palestine 1917-18,
Archangel 1918-19
The Second World War: Dyle,
Defence of Escaut, St Omer-La-Bassée, Odon,
Cheux, Defence of Rauray, Caen, Esquay, Mont Pincon, Aart,
Nederrijn, Best, Scheldt, Flushing, Meijel, Venlo Pocket,
Roer, Rhineland, Reichswald, Cleve, Goch, Rhine, Uelzen,
Bremen, Artlenberg, North-West Europe 1940,
'44-45,
Gothic Line,
Marradi, Monte Gamberaldi, Italy 1944-45,
South East Asia 1941, Donbaik,
Kohima, Relief of Kohima, Aradura, Shwebo, Mandalay,
Burma 1943-45
Wadi Al Batin, Gulf
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4th, 5th, 7th Battalions: South
Africa 1900-02
6th, 9th, 10th Battalions: South
Africa 1901-02
8th Battalion: South
Africa 1901
1. the Sphinx badge superscribed "Egypt".
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
?-1953:
scarlet; facings: blue
1953-2006: blue doublet; facings: blue
headdress:
tartan: No. 8 Hunting
Stewart (trews), Royal Stewart (pipers' kilts and plaids, bagpipe
covers, cords and ribbons) |
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1918.08.31 |
Hon. Gen. HRH
Princess Mary, The Princess Royal, CI, GCVO, GBE, RRC, TD |
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1983.06.30 |
HRH
Princess Anne, The Princess Royal, KG, KT, GCVO |
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1633.01.26 |
Col. Sir John Hepburn |
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1636 |
Col. George Hepburn |
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1637.12 |
Col. Lord James Douglas |
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1645 |
Col. Archibald (Douglas), Earl of Angus |
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1655.10.21 |
Lt-Gen. Lord George (Douglas), 1st Earl
of Dumbarton, KT |
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1688.12.31 |
Gen. Frederick Herman (Schomberg), Duke
of Schomberg, KG [MGO 1689-90; killed at the Boyne] |
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1691.03.05 |
Col. Sir Robert Douglas, Bt (of Glenbervie)
[killed at Steenkirk] |
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1692.08.01 |
F.M.
George (Hamilton), 1st Earl of Orkney, KT [also
7th Foot; Gov. Virginia 1714-37] |
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1737.06.27 |
Gen. The Hon. James St. Clair (Baron Sinclair
-- did not assume title) [also
22nd Foot] |
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1762.12.17 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Henry Erskine, Bt [also
25th Foot, 67th Foot] |
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1765.09.11 |
F.M.
John (Campbell), 5th Duke of Argyll (Marquess of Lorne)
[also 14th Dgns, 3rd
Gds, 54th Foot; C-in-C Scotland 1762-65,
1767] |
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1782.05.09 |
Gen. Lord Adam Gordon
[also 26th Foot, 66th Foot] |
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1801.08.21 |
F.M.
HRH Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, KG, GCB |
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1820.01.29 |
Gen. George (Gordon), 5th Duke of Gordon,
GCB (Marquess of Huntly) [also 3rd
Gds, 42nd Hldrs, 92nd
Foot] |
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1834.12.12 |
Gen. Thomas (Graham), 1st Baron Lynedoch,
GCB, GCMG [also 14th Foot,
58th Foot, 90th Foot] |
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1843.12.29 |
Gen. Sir George Murray, GCB, GCH [also
42nd Hldrs, 7th Bn 60th
Foot, 72nd Foot; MGO 1834-35 & 1841-46] |
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1846.08.07 |
Gen. Sir James Kempt, GCB, GCH
[also 2nd Foot, 40th
Foot, 8th Bn 60th Foot, 81st
Foot, 3rd West India
Regt; MGO 1830-34; Gov. Gen. Canada 1828-30] |
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1854.12.12 |
F.M.
Sir Edward Blakeney, GCB, GCH [also 1st
Foot, 7th Foot; Col.-in-Chief, Rifle
Bde; C-in-C
Ireland; Gov. R Hospital 1856-68] |
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1868.08.03 |
Gen. Sir George Bell, KCB [also
32nd Foot, 104th Foot] |
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1877.07.11 |
Gen. Henry Phipps Raymond [also
67th Foot] |
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1897.12.10 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Edward Andrew Stuart, Bt |
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1903.08.20 |
Lt-Gen. George Hay Moncrieff, VD [also
Hon. Col. 4th Regt] |
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1918.10.16 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Edward Altham Altham, KCB, KCIE,
CMG |
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1935.03.26 |
Maj-Gen. Granville George Loch, CB, CMG,
CBE, DSO |
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1940.07.22 |
Col. John Hugh Mackenzie, CMG, DSO |
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1946.07.02 |
Brig. Norman Richard Crockatt, CBE, DSO,
MC |
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1956.01.01 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Rohan Delacombe, KCMG, KCVO,
KBE, CB, DSO |
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1964.10.01 |
Maj-Gen. William Tait Campbell, CBE |
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1975.01.01 |
Lt-Gen. Sir David Tod Young, KBE, CB, DFC |
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1980.08.31 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Robert Francis Richardson, KCB,
CVO, CBE |
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1990.08.31 |
Brig. Charles David Maclver Ritchie, CBE,
ADC |
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1995.10.20 |
Maj-Gen. Mark Jeremy Strudwick, CBE, ADC |
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2005.07.25 |
Brig. Robert Logan Scott-Bowden, MBE, ADC |
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Motto: |
Nemo me impune
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Anniversaries: |
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Freedoms: |
Haddington (1947),
Peebles (1954), Linlithgow (1960), Musselburgh (1971), Penicuik (1975)
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Marches: |
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Musicians: |
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Mascot: |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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Note: see
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Regimental
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The thistle. |
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Full Histories:
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Wetherall, Joseph (comp.) An historical
account of His Majesty's First, or, The Royal Regiment of Foot ...
London : W. Clowes, 1832. |
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Cannon, Richard. Historical record
of the First, or Royal Regiment of Foot: containing an account of
the origin of the regiment in the reign of King James VI of Scotland,
and of its subsequent services to 1838. London : Longmans,
Orme & Co., 1838. (Historical records of the British army)
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Cannon, Richard. Historical record
of the First, or Royal Regiment of Foot: containing an account of
the origin of the regiment in the reign of King James VI of Scotland,
and of its subsequent services to 1846. London : Parker, Furnivall,
& Parker, 1847. (Historical records of the British army) |
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Mackay, John. An old Scots brigade,
being the history of Mackay's regiment : now incorporated with the
Royal Scots ; with an appendix containing copies of many original
documents connected with the history of the regiment. Edinburgh
; : W. Blackwood and sons, 1885. |
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The Royal Scots, formerly The first,
or the Royal Regiment of Foot ... [s.l. : s.n.], 1886.
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Simson, H. J. Three hundred years
: The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). Edinburgh : Printed
by J. Skinner, 1935. |
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Brander, A. Michael. The Royal Scots
(The Royal Regiment). London : Leo Cooper, 1976. (Famous
regiments) ISBN: 0850521831 |
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Leask, J. C., (comp.) ; McCance, H. M. (comp.)
The regimental records of the Royal Scots : (the First or the
Royal Regiment of Foot). Dublin : Alexander Thom and Co.,
Ltd., 1915. |
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Weaver, Lawrence, Sir. The story of
The Royal Scots (The Lothian Regiment) formerly the First or the Royal
Regiment of Foot. London : Country life ; New York : C. Scribner's
sons,1915. ("Country life" series of military histories) |
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Muir, Augustus. The First of Foot
: the history of The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). Edinburgh
: Royal Scots History Committee, 1961. |
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Paterson, Robert H. Pontius Pilate's
bodyguard : a history of the First or the Royal Regiment of Foot,
The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). Edinburgh : Royal Scots
History Committee 2000, 2001. [2 v.: v. 1. 1633-1918 -- v. 2. 1919-2000.]
ISBN: 0954090608; 0954090616 (v. 1); 0954090624 (v. 2) {book
notice by regiment} |
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Maxwell, Herbert, Sir. The Lowland
Scots regiments : their origin, character and services previous to
the great war of 1914. Glasgow : J. Maclehose and Sons, 1918.
[Contents: Introduction, by the editor.--The 2nd Dragoons, Royal Scots
Greys, by Sir J. B. Paul.--The Scots Guards, by Captain C.B. Balfour.--The
Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) by Major M.M. Haldane.--The Royal Scots
Fusiliers, by Lieut.-Col. R. Toogood.--The King's Own Scottish Borderers,
by Brigadier-General M.G. Wilkinson. Note on the origin of the K.O.S.B.,
by A. Ross.--The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). The 90th Perthshire
Light Infantry, by A. Ross.--Scottish regiments disbanded, by A. Ross.--Regimental
music (p. [331]-339)] |
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Paul, William Pratt. The Lowland regiments:
lions rampant. Aberdeen : Impulse Publications Ltd, 1972.
ISBN: 090131126X |
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First World War:
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Ewing, John. The Royal Scots, 1914-1919.
Edinburgh : For the Association of Lowland Scots by Oliver and Boyd,
1925. [2 v.] |
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Alexander, Jack. McCrae's Battalion
: the story of the 16th Royal Scots. Edinburgh : Mainstream,
2003. ISBN: 1840187077 |
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Second World War:
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McBain, S. W. (Stuart W.). A regiment
at war : the Royal Scots (the Royal Regiment) 1939-45 (including the
Canadian Scottish Regiment). Edinburgh : Pentland, 1988. ISBN:
0946270481 |
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Other Wars: |
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A Full and true account of the barbarous
rebellion and rising of the Lord Dunbarton's regiment at Ipswich in
Suffolk with their pretences of declaring for the late King James.
London : Printed by W. Downing, 1689. [1 sheet] [also
available on microfilm: Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International,
1973. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 454:17)] |
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A full and true account of the tryal,
conviction, & condemnatio[n] of the Scotch rebels officers in the
L. Dunbarton's regiment; at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, (on Wednesday,
July 31st, 1689.) For high-treason. Licens'd, according to order,
1689. [London : Printed for J. Pardo in St. James's-street,
1689 [1 sheet] [also available on microfim: Ann Arbor,
Mich. : UMI, 1991. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2049:10)] |
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Douglas, W. Diary of services of the
First Battalion Royal Scots during the Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902.
London : Burt & Sons, 1904. |
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Milner, Laurie. Royal Scots in the
Gulf : 1st Battalion, the Royal Scots (the Royal Regiment) on Operation
Granby, 1990-1991. London : L. Cooper, 1994. ISBN: 0850522730
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Special Topics: |
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Henderson, T.F. Freemasonry in The
Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). Aldershot : Gale & Polden,
1934. |
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Short Histories:
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Mackay, John. Mackay's regiment :
a narrative of the principal services of the regiment from its formation
in 1626 to the battle of Nordlingen in 1634, and of its subsequent
incorporation with the corps now known as The Royal Scots or First
Regiment of Foot of the British Army. Inverness : Free Press
Printing Co., 1879. [reprinted from Gaelic Society of Inverness transactions] |
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Prior, G.U. The Royal Scots.
[s.l. : s.n., ca. 1890] |
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Watt, Lauchlan MacLean. The Royal
Scotts ... Edinburgh : W.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell [1916] |
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McLennan, D.T.H. A short history of
The Royal Scots. Poona : printed by the Scottish Mission Industries
Co. Ltd., 1924. |
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The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment),
1633-1933 : tercentenary souvenir. Aldershot : Gale &
Polen, 1933. |
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The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment).
Edinburgh : Dunedin Press, [ca. 1939] |
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Crockatt, Norman Richard. The Royal
Scots (The Royal Regiment) : a short history of the First or Royal
Regiment of Foot. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1952. |
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The Royal Scots : history and handbook
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The Royal Scots (the Royal Regiment)
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