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The Royal Scots Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1678 until 1959 when it was amalgamated with the Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) which was later itself merged with the Royal Scots, King's Own Scottish Borderers, the Black Watch (Royal ...
The Royal Logistic Corps Museum is based at Princess Royal Barracks near Camberley in Surrey [54] The Royal Marines Museum is in the course of relocating to Portsmouth Dockyard [55] The Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum is based in Norwich Castle [56] The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire) is based at St John's House in ...
Bissett's grave in Aldershot Military Cemetery. Bissett was commissioned second lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on 19 December 1916. [2]He was a 25 year old, lieutenant in the 1/6th Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's), British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC:
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [27]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
In 1877 Queen Victoria, changed the regiment's name to the now more familiar Scots Guards. In 1881, the 1st Battalion deployed to Dublin , Ireland and the following year the battalion, as part of the Guard Brigade, took part in an expedition to Egypt, which came about in response to a revolt led by Urabi Pasha , an Egyptian military officer.
The 8th Battalion, Royal Scots was raised on 2 August 1939 [67] as a 2nd Line duplicate of the 7th/9th Battalion. They remained in the United Kingdom as part of 44th (Lowland) Infantry Brigade, alongside the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers and 6th King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Honorary Colonel, 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers (24 January 1940 – 1947) [73] Colonel, 4th Queen's Own Hussars (22 October 1941 – 24 October 1958) [74] Honorary Colonel, 4th/5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment (14 November 1941 – 24 January 1965) [75] Major, Territorial Army, Retired (20 February 1942) [72]
Regimental uniform, 1852 71st Highlanders in 1856 Memorial to men of the regiment killed or fatally wounded on the North West Frontier of India in 1863. Remaining in India, the regiment fought at the siege of Pondicherry in August 1793 [15] during the French Revolutionary Wars before transferring to Ceylon in August 1795 [15] and returning to Scotland in August 1798.