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Note:This
is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental
page for full lineage and other information.
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Colour Key
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| 1625 | Hepburn's
Regiment of Foot raised in Scotland for Swedish service |
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| 1625 | Thirty Years War: Germany | Swedish service (Green Bde) | |
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Stralsund | ||
| 1633.01.26 | Royal
Regiment of Foot placed on Scottish establishment for King Charles I's Scottish coronation |
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| 1633 | Thirty Years War: Rhineland | French service | |
| 1635 | Lorraine | ||
| 1639 | France: Picardy | ||
| 1642 | France: northeast | ||
| 1642 | Italy | ||
| 1643 | France | ||
| 1648 | France | ||
| 1649 | French civil war | French service | |
| 1652 | France | ||
| 1655 | Spanish Netherlands | French service | |
| 1661 | England | British service | |
| 1662 | Earl of Dumbarton's Regiment of Foot | ||
| 1662 | France | French service | |
| 1664 | Anglo-Dutch war: France | ||
| 1666 | Anglo-Dutch war: England: Chatham | increased from 8 to 12 coys | |
| 1667 | Anglo-Dutch war: France | ||
| 1668 | France | ||
| 1672 | Anglo-Dutch war: Netherlands | French service | |
| 1674 | Franco-Austrian war: Rhineland | French service for last time | |
| 1678 | England | returned to British service (21 coys) | |
| 1678 | Grenadier Company formed | ||
| 1679 | Ireland | ||
| 1680 | Tangier (4 coys) | ||
| 1680 | Tangier (16 coys) | ||
| 1680 | Tangier | ||
| 1684 | England: south | ||
| 1685 | Monmouth rebellion | ||
| 1685 | England: south | ||
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1686.03.01 |
1st
Battalion, Earl
of Dumbarton's Regiment of Foot redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1688 | Glorious revolution: England (south) | loyal to James II and mutinied | |
| 1689 | England | ||
| 1689.06 | Flanders | ||
| 1697 | Ireland | ||
| 1698 | Ireland? | ||
| 1701 | Flanders and Germany | ||
| 1713 | England | ||
| 1714 | Ireland | ||
| 1743 | England | ||
| 1743 | Flanders | ||
| 1746 | England | ||
| 1748 | England | ||
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1751.07.01 |
1st Battalion, 1st Regiment of Foot | ||
| 1756 | England? | ||
| 1760 | Ireland | ||
| 1768 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1775 | England | ||
| 1781.01 | West Indies: Barbados | ||
| 1781 | West Indies | ||
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1782.01 |
captured by the French at St. Kitts; exchanged later in year | ||
| 1783 | England | ||
| 17uu | Ireland | ||
| 1790 | West Indies: Jamaica | ||
| 1794.01 | at sea | ||
| 1794.02.02 | Santo Domingo | ||
| 1797 | England | ||
| 1798 | Ireland | re-formed from Irish Militia vols after depletion by casualties & disease in WI | |
| 1800 | Scotland | ||
| 1800 | Spanish coast | ||
| 1801 | West Indies | ||
| 1812.08 | Lower Canada: Quebec | ||
| 1812 | American war: Canadian frontier | ||
| 1815 | Scotland | ||
| 18uu | Ireland | ||
| 1825 | West Indies | ||
| 1839.11.01 | at sea | ||
| 1839 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1846 | West Indies | ||
| 1848 | Canada | ||
| 1851 | Wales | ||
| 1854 | Anatolia | ||
| 1854 | Crimea | ||
| 1856 | England | ||
| 1856 | Ireland | ||
| 1857 | Ceylon | ||
| 18uu | India | ||
| 1870 | England | ||
| 1874 | Scotland | ||
| 1876 | Ireland | ||
| 1878 | Malta (4 coys); West Indies (4 coys) | ||
| 1881.07.01 | 1st Battalion, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) | ||
| 1882 | West Indies: Barbados | ||
| 1884 | Egypt | ||
| 1884 | South Africa | ||
| 1884 | Bechuanaland | ||
| 1885 | South Africa | ||
| 1891 | England: York | ||
| 1893 | Gravesend | ||
| 1895 | Scotland: Edinburgh | ||
| 1896 | Ireland: Curragh or Fermoy | ||
| 1899.11 | South Africa | 3 Inf Bde | |
| <1904> | England: Aldershot | ||
| <1909> | Shorncliffe | ||
| <1912> | India: Allahabad | ||
| 1914.12 | France and Flanders | 27 Div | |
| 1915.12 | Macedonia | ||
| 1919 | Black Sea | ||
| 1920 | UK | ||
| 1920 | Burma: Rangoon | ||
| 1921.01.01 | 1st Battalion, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) | ||
| <1922.01> | India: Secunderabad | ||
| 1925 | Aden | ||
| 1926 | Scotland | ||
| <1929.01> | England: Aldershot | 2 Bde | |
| <1933.01> | England: Dover | 12 Bde | |
| 1937 | Palestine | ||
| 1938.01 | converted to MG battalion | ||
| 1938.01 | Palestine | 5 Div | |
| 1938 | England: Aldershot | 4 Bde | |
| 1939.09 | France & Belgium | 2 Inf Div, BEF | |
| 1940.06 | UK | ||
| 1942.06 | India & Burma | ||
| 1946 | Singapore & Burma | ||
| 1947 | India | ||
| 1947 | Scotland: Edinburgh | ||
| 1951.02 | Germany: Münster | ||
| 1952.02 | Berlin | ||
| 1953.03 | ? | ||
| 1953.07 | Korea | 29 Inf Bde Gp | |
| 1954.11 | Egypt | ||
| 1955.09 | Cyprus | ||
| 1956.02 | England: Colchester | 19 Inf Bde | |
| 1958.01 | Berlin | ||
| 1960.01 | Scotland: Edinburgh? | ||
| 1960.12 | Libya | ||
| 1963.04 | England: Tidworth | 39 Bde | |
| ? | England: Tidworth | 5 Bde | |
| 1964.06 | (Aden) | ||
| 1965.03 | England: Tidworth | 5 Bde | |
| 1966.10 | Germany: Osnabrück | ||
| 1970.01 | England: Tidworth | ACE MF(L) | |
| 1970.03 | (Northern Ireland) | ||
| 1970.07 | England: Tidworth | ACE MF(L) | |
| 1971.05 | (Northern Ireland) | ||
| 1971.07 | England: Tidworth | ACE MF(L) | |
| 1971.10 | (Northern Ireland) | ||
| 1971.12 | England: Tidworth | ACE MF(L) | |
| 1972.06 | (Northern Ireland) | ||
| 1972.08 | England: Tidworth | ACE MF(L) | |
| 1974.05 | Cyprus | ||
| 1976.06 | Germany: Münster | 12 Mech Bde | |
| 1977.01 | Münster | 2 Armd Div | |
| 1979.04 | Scotand: Edinburgh | ||
| 1980.02 | (Northern Ireland) | ||
| 1980.05 | Scotland: Edinburgh | ||
| 1981.03 | Northern Ireland: Ballykinlar | 39 Inf Bde | |
| 1983.03 | Scotland: Edinburgh | ||
| 1985.03 | Germany: Werl | 33 Armd Bde | |
| 1990.10 | [Persian Gulf] | ||
| 1991.04 | Germany: Werl | 33 Armd Bde | |
| 1991.08 | Scotland: Fort George | ||
| 1992.02 | (Northern Ireland) | ||
| 1993.05 | Scotland: Fort George | ||
| 1994 | B Coy attached ("Gurkha Reinforcement Company") | ||
| 1996.07 | England: Colchester | 24 Airmobile Bde | |
| 1998.07.03 | (Bosnia) (only Gurkha coy?) | ||
| 1999.10.16 | England: Colchester | 24 Airmobile Bde | |
| 2000.08 | Northern Ireland: Ballykelly | 8 Inf Bde | |
| 2001? | B Coy transferred to 1st Bn, The Highlanders; new B Coy formed | ||
| 2002.02 | Scotland: Edinburgh (Dreghorn Barracks) | 52 Bde | |
| 2002.09 | (Bosnia) | ||
| 2003.03 | Scotland: Edinburgh (Dreghorn Barracks) | 52 Bde | |
| 2003.07 | Colours presented by HRH The Princess Royal at Dreghorn Barracks | ||
| 2003.11 | (Iraq) (A, C, R Coys) | 20 Armd Bde | |
| 2004.04 | Scotland: Edinburgh (Dreghorn Barracks) | 52 Bde | |
| 2006.01 | (Iraq) | Op Telic 7 | |
| 2006.03.28 | The Royal Scots Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland | ||
| 2006.05.12 | Scotland: Edinburgh (Dreghorn Barracks) | 52 Bde | |
| 2006.05.26 | Farewell parade in Edinburgh reviewed by HRH The Princess Royal | ||
| 2006.08.01 | amalgamated with The King's Own Scottish Borderers Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, to form The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland | ||
