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The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the oldest and most senior infantry regiment of the line of the British Army, ...
The 6th Battalion, Royal Scots, was a unit of Britain's part-time Territorial Force. Beginning as a Volunteer unit formed from teetotallers in the city of Edinburgh in 1867, it later became affiliated to the Royal Scots .
The Royal Scots expansion during the Second World War was modest compared to 1914–1918. National Defence Companies were combined to create a new " Home Defence " battalion. 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 ...
130th (Queen's Edinburgh, Royal Scots) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery 201st (Infantry) Battalion, Training Reserve 514th (West Lothian, Royal Scots) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
Finally in 1881 as a result of the reforms the unit moved under the control of the Royal Scots and became the 6th Volunteer Battalion. In 1881 a new "E Company" was formed and was headquartered at Prestonpans. In April 1888 the battalion was re-organized and became the 7th Volunteer Battalion.
9th Royal Scots, nicknamed The Dandy Ninth, were the only Volunteer battalion to retain their number upon the transition to the Territorial Force in April 1908. [7] In 1912 the battalion moved to Hepburn House (named after John Hepburn, founder of the Royal Scots), purpose-built headquarters at 89 East Claremont Street, Edinburgh. Half of the ...
Royal Scots, a regiment of the British Army; Royal Scots (Jacobite), a regiment of Scottish exiles in French service, in existence from 1744 to 1762; Royal Scot, a British named express passenger train which first ran in 1862; LMS Royal Scot Class, a class of express passenger locomotive introduced in 1927
S. James St Clair; Sir Horace St Paul, 1st Baronet; Peter, 3rd Count de Salis; Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg; Lord Henry Scott; Lord Herbert Scott