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The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (2 SCOTS) is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.. Prior to 28 March 2006, the Royal Highland Fusiliers was an infantry regiment in its own right, created by the amalgamation of the Royal Scots Fusiliers with the Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) in January 1959.
1st Battalion, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) – (1633–2006) 1st Battalion, The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)] – (1959–2006) 1st Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderers – (1689–2006) 1st Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) – (1881–2006)
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was amalgamated with the Royal Scots, King's Own Scottish Borderers, Royal Highland Fusiliers, Black Watch, and the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons), to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland in 2006, under Delivering Security in a Changing World. The 1st battalion became the 5th Battalion, Royal ...
The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland – Glencorse Barracks; ... Scottish Military Experience C. 1550–1900 (2003) Peters, David.
Adult Highland Brigade recruits moved from Gordon Barracks to The Scottish Division Depôt at Glencorse Barracks on the same day. [13] Royal Scots corporal Andrew Walker killed three Army colleagues in a payroll robbery in the Pentland Hills, south of Edinburgh, in January 1985. He was jailed for life.
On 10 March 1971, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) shot dead three off-duty British soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Royal Highland Fusiliers. The soldiers were from Scotland and two were teenage brothers. They were lured from a pub in Belfast where they had been drinking, driven to a remote location and shot by the roadside. Three ...
The individual battalions of the regiment retain the titles of the predecessor units, and The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland continues to wear the white hackle of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. In addition, the Scots Guards were known as the Scots Fusilier Guards from 1831 to 1877.
B (Royal Highland Fusiliers) Company, Ayr/Dumfries; C (Royal Highland Fusiliers) Company, Glasgow/Motherwell; 51st Highland Volunteers, 7th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland. Battalion Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron, Perth (Includes the Highland Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland and 7 SCOTS Pipes and Drums)