The Royal Scots Fusiliers [UK]

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	1678.09.23	Earl of Mar's Regiment of Foot also known until 1751 by the names of twelve other colonels
	1685	Scots Fuzileers
	1688.03.01	placed on English Establishment; ranked as 21st Foot
	1707	North British Fuzileers
	1713	Royal North British Fuzileers
	1751.07.01	21st Regiment of Foot (Royal North British Fuzileers)
	1877.04.03	21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
	1881.07.01	The Royal Scots Fusiliers reorganised as the county regiment of Ayrshire, Dumfries-shire, Kircudbrightshire Wigtownshire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire, encompassing also its Militia and infantry volunteers [see below]
	1887.05.01	Dumfries-shire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire recruiting area transferred to The King's Own Scottish Borderers
	1899	Kirkcudbright and Wigtown recruiting area transferred to The King's Own Scottish Borderers
	1959.01.20	amalgamated with The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment), to form The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)


		A Brief History of the Regiment (Regimental site)
		The Royal Scots Fusiliers, by Diana M. Henderson (Scots at War)
		The Royal Scots Fusiliers, by Reginald Toogood (The Lowland Scots Regiments, 1918)
		History and Lineage (Scottish Military Historical Society)
		1/21st Royal North British Fusiliers Regiment 1833-1839, by B & M Chapman.
		The Royal Scots Fusiliers, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War).
		The Royal Scots Fusiliers, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)

	*RHQ and Depot:*
		? Depot Battalion [1856-1871]
		61st Brigade Depot at Ayr [1873-1881]
		21st Regimental District at Ayr [1881-1905]

		B Group at Edinburgh [1946-1948]
		Lowland Brigade at Melton Bridge [1948-1959]

	*Regulars:*
		1st Battalion [1678-1959]
		2nd Battalion [1804-1816, 1857-1948]

	*Militia and Special Reserve:*
		3rd Battalion (Royal Ayrshire and Wigtown Regiment of Militia) [1881-1953]
		Lineage (Scottish Military Historical Society)

	*Territorials and Volunteers:*
		Lineage, 1859-1908 (Scottish Military Historical Society)
		1st Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
		2nd Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
		1st Dumfries Rifle Volunteer Corps [1881-1887]
		1st Roxburgh and Selkirk Volunteer Rifle Corps [1881-1887]
		The Galloway (Kirkcudbright and Wigtown) Volunteer Rifle Corps [1881-1899]
		4th Battalion [1908-1921]
		4th/5th Battalion [1921-1959]
		5th Battalion [1908-1921]
		The Ardeer Company [1912-1914]

	*Hostilities-Only Units* (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates):
		2/4th Battalion [1914-1918]
		4th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1919]
		2/5th Battalion [1914-1915]
		5th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
		6th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
		6th (Pioneer) Battalion [1939-1947]
		7th (Service) Battalion [1914-1916]
		8th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
		9th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
		10th (Works) Battalion [1916-1917]
		10th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
		11th Battalion [1917-1919]
		11th Battalion [1940-1946]
		12th (Ayr and Lanark Yeomanry) Battalion [1917-1919]
		30th Battalion [1941-1943]
		50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
		1st Garrison Battalion [1915-1920]
		2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion [1916-1916]


	Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen, Bellisle, Martinique 1794, Bladensburg, Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, South Africa 1879, Burma 1885-87, Tirah, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902 The Great War (18 battalions): Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Ypres 1914 '17 '18, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Messines 1917, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, St Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Béthune, Scherpenberg, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenberg Line, Canal du Nord, Courtrai, Selle, France and Flanders 1914-18, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1916-18, Helles, Gallipoli 1915-16, Rumani, Egypt 1916-17, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Tel Asur, Palestine 1917-18 The Second World War: Defence of Arras, Ypres-Comines Canal, Somme 1940, Withdrawal to Seine, Odon, Fontenay le Pesnil, Cheux, Defence of Rauray, Mont Pincon, Estry, Falaise, Le Vie Crossing, La Touques Crossing, Aart, Nederrijn, Best, Le Havre, Antwerp-Turnhout Canal, Scheldt, South Beveland, Lower Maas, Meijel, Venlo Pocket, Roer, Rhineland, Reichswald, Cleve, Goch, Rhine, Dreirwalde, Uelzen, Bremen, Artlenberg, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Landing in Sicily, Sicily 1943, Sangro, Garigliano Crossing, Minturno, Anzio, Advance to Tiber, Italy 1943-44, Madagascar, Middle East 1942, North Arakan, Razabil, Pinwe, Shweli, Mandalay, Burma 1944-45 4th Battalion: South Africa 1900-02 5th Battalion: South Africa 1900-01

Badges:

Uniform:

?-1953: scarlet; facings: blue
1953-1959: blue doublet; facings: blue
headdress:
tartan: Scots Fusiliers (trews, 1881-1948), pipers' kilts & plaids, pipe bags & ribbons, 1881-1928), Hunting Erskine (trews, 1948-1959), Red Erskine (pipers' kilts & plaids, pipe bags & ribbons, 1928-1959)


	1919.04.12	F.M. HM King Edward VIII


	1678.09.23	Col. Charles (Erskine), 5th Earl of Mar (Lord Erskine)
	1686.07.29	Col. Thomas Buchan
	1689.03.01	Brig-Gen. Francis Fergus O'Farrell
	1695.11.13	Col. Hon. Robert Mackay
	1697.01.01	Col. Archibald Row
	1704.08.25	Brig-Gen. John (Mordaunt), Viscount Mordaunt
	1706.06.26	Maj-Gen. Sampson de Lalo
	1709.09.04	Brig-Gen. John (Mordaunt), Viscount Mordaunt [reappointed]
	1710.05.01	Lt-Gen. Thomas Meredith [cashiered 1710; also 20th Foot, 37th Foot]
	1710.12.08	Maj-Gen. Charles (Boyle), 4th Earl of Orrery, KT [also Orrery's Foot(1), Orrery's Foot(2)]
	1716.07.12	Lt-Gen. George Maccartney [also 7th Horse, Maccartney's Foot(1), Maccartney's Foot(2)]
	1727.03.09	Maj-Gen. Sir James Wood, Bt. [also Wood's Foot]
	1738.11.01	Gen. John (Campbell), 4th Duke of Argyll, KT
	1752.04.29	Gen. William (Maule), 1st Earl of Panmure
	1770.11.10	Lt-Gen. Hon. Alexander Mackay [also 65th Foot, 122nd Foot]
	1789.06.05	Gen. Hon. James Murray
	1794.06.20	Gen. James Inglis Hamilton [also 15th Foot, 113th Foot]
	1803.08.06	Gen. Hon. William Gordon of Fyvie [also 7th Foot, 60th Foot, 71st Hldrs, 81st Hldrs]
	1816.06.01	Gen. James Ochonacar (Forbes), 17th Baron Forbes
	1843.05.31	Gen. Sir Frederick Adam, GCB, GCMG [also 57th Foot, 73rd Foot; Gov. Madras 1832-37]
	1853.08.29	Gen. Sir George de Lacey Evans, GCB
	1870.01.10	Gen. Sir Frederick William Hamilton. KCB
	1890.10.05	F.M. Sir Frederick Paul Haines, GCB, GCSI, CIE
	1909.06.12	Lt-Gen. John Thomas Dalyell [also Bedfordshire Regt]
	1919.07.13	Marshal of the RAF (Col.) Hugh Montague (Trenchard), 1st Viscount Trenchard, GCB
	1946.05.01	Maj-Gen. Sir Edmund Hakewill Smith, KCVO, CB, CBE, MC
	1957.12.24	Brig. Archibald Ian Buchanan-Dunlop, CBE, DSO [continued 1959 as Assoc. Col. R Highland Fus]


		Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).
		VCs in the Royal Highland Fusiliers Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart.


	Motto:	Nemo me impune lacessit
	Nicknames:
	Anniversaries:
	Freedoms:
	Marches:
	Musicians:
	Band History, by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd) Bandmasters, by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd)
	*Mascot:*
	*Miscellaneous Tradition Links:*


		The Scots Fusiliers of Canada	1928-1959
		Prince Alfred's Guard	1929-1959
		23rd/21st Battalion (The City of Geelong Regiment and The Victorian Rangers)	1935-1951


		[no external sites have been found]


		Museum of The Royal Highland Fusiliers, Glasgow (Regimental site)
		Museum of The Royal Highland Fusiliers, Glasgow (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
		Museum of The Royal Highland Fusiliers, Glasgow (Simonides listing)
		Museum of The Royal Highland Fusiliers, Glasgow (Scottish Military Historical Society listing)


	Regimental Journal:
		*The journal of The Royal Scots Fusiliers*. 1928-1958.

	Full Histories:
		Cannon, Richard. *Historical record of the Twenty-First Regiment, or the Royal North British Fusiliers*. London : Parker, Furnivall, & Parker, 1849.
		Clark, James. Historical record and regimental memoir of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, formerly known as the 21st Royal North British Fusiliers; containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1678 and its subsequent services until June 1885. Edinburgh : Banks & Co., 1885.
		Buchan, John. The history of the Royal Scots Fusiliers (1678-1918). London ; New York : T. Nelson and Sons, ltd., 1925.
		Kemp, J. C. *The history of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1919-1959*. Glasgow : Privately printed by Robert Maclehose, The University Press, Glasgow for the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1963.
		Blackburn, Geoff. Conquest & Settlement : 21st Regt (North British Fusiliers) in Western Australia 1833-1840.
		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)]
		Paul, William Pratt. *The Lowland regiments: lions rampant*. Aberdeen : Impulse Publications Ltd, 1972. ISBN: 090131126X

	Short Histories:
		Groves, John Percy. *History of the 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers (formerly the 21st Royal North British Fusiliers) now known as the Royal Scots Fusiliers... 1678-1895*. Edinburgh : W. & A.K. Johnston, 1895.
		*A Short history of the Royal Scots Fusiliers*. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1920.
		Smith, Arthur George Baird. *A short history of the Royal Scots Fusiliers*. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, Ltd.,1934.
		*A short history of The Royal Scots Fusiliers*. Ayr : Observer Printing Works, 1948.
		A short history of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. Aldershot : Gale and Polden, [1959?]

	Militia:


	Territorials/Volunteers:
		M'Caw, R. Outposts and convoys with the Ayrshire Volunteers in South Africa. Kilmarnock : Dunlop & Drennan, 1901.

	Second World War:
		*The 6th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1939-46*. Ayr : T.M. Gemmell, 1947.

	Manuscripts and Archives:
		Orderly Books of the Crown Forces in America 1775-1784, compiled by John K. Robertson, Don Hagist, Todd Braisted, and Don Londahl-Smidt (RevWar'75)