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Prior to 28 March 2006, the Highlanders was an infantry regiment in its own right; The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons), part of the Scottish Division. The regiment was one of only two in the British Army with a Gaelic motto – Cuidich 'n Righ which means "Help the King". [3] (The other is the Royal Irish Regiment.) [4]
In the Gulf, the battalion was split up to support other units, including attachments to the 1st Royal Scots and 3rd Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (3RRF) to bring these units up to strength. Three Queen's Own Highlanders serving with 3 RRF were among eleven soldiers killed in a friendly fire incident, when two US A-10 aircraft mistakenly bombed a ...
Regimental flag of the SCOTS. The Royal Regiment of Scotland (SCOTS) is the senior and only current Scottish line infantry regiment of the British Army Infantry.It consists of three regular (formerly five) and two reserve battalions, plus an incremental company, each formerly an individual regiment (with the exception of the former first battalion (now disbanded and reformed into the 1st Bn ...
The regiment was created in 1881 through the amalgamation of the 72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) Regiment of Foot and the 78th (Highlanders) (Ross-shire Buffs) Regiment of Foot, which became the 1st and 2nd battalions of the new regiment, and was part of the Childers Reforms of the British Army. [1]
In addition 17 battalions of the Home Guard were affiliated to the regiment, wearing its cap badge, and also by 1944 two batteries of [Anti-Aircraft] rocket batteries (Z Battery. [18] A Light Anti-Aircraft (LAA) troop was formed from one of the local battalions to defend a power station. [ 19 ]
In January 1948, [4] at the officers' mess of a Highland battalion, Jock Sinclair announces that this is his last day as acting commanding officer.Sinclair, who is still only a major despite having been in command (as a brevet lieutenant colonel) since the battalion's last full colonel died during the North Africa Campaign, is to be replaced by Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow.
HQ (Royal Scots) Company at Edinburgh; No.1 (Royal Scots) Company at Penicuik; No.2 (Royal Highland Fusiliers) Company at Auldhouse Road, Pollokshaws (Assaye House at Shawfield, Rutherglen from 1982, becoming A Coy in 1/52 Lowland). No.3 (Kings Own Scottish Borderers) at Galashiels; No.4 (Cameronians) Company at Motherwell
1/4th (City of Dundee) 1859 Western Front See Inter-War 1/5th (Angus and Dundee) 1908 Western Front Amalgamated with the 1/4th Battalion, to become the 4/5th Battalion on 15 March 1916 1/6th (Perthshire) 1859 Western Front See Inter-War 1/7th (Fife) 1860 Western Front See Inter-War 2/4th (City of Dundee) Dundee, September 1914 Britain