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The barracks were built on the south side of Ayr Harbour as part of the British response to the threat of the French Revolution in 1795. [1] In 1873 a system of recruiting areas based on counties was instituted under the Cardwell Reforms and the barracks became the depot for the two battalions of the 21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot. [2]
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 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 Warwick [57] The Royal Signals Museum is based at Blandford Camp in Dorset [58] The Royal Sussex Regiment Museum and that of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars is based at Eastbourne Redoubt ...
In early 1917, the regiment was amalgamated with the Lanarkshire Yeomanry to form the 12th (Ayr and Lanark Yeomanry) Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers in 74th (Yeomanry) Division (The Broken Spurs), seeing service in the Palestine campaign before moving to the Western Front in May 1918.
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.
Diary of Services of the First Battalion The Royal Scots, 1904, Printed for private circulation; James Ferguson, Record of the 9th (Volunteer) Battalion (Highlanders) The Royal Scots, 1909, Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston Ltd. Neill Gilhooley, A History of the 9th (Highlanders) Royal Scots, 2019, Barnsley: Pen and Sword, ISBN 978-1-52673-527-0
2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers; 2nd Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment) 1/4th Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (from 8 April 1915) 22nd Brigade 2nd Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment (left December 1915) 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment; 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers
In May 1918 each of the Mixed Brigades was called upon to provide a battalion (redesignated a Garrison Guard battalion) to reconstitute the 59th (2nd North Midland) Division, which had been virtually destroyed during the German spring offensive. 221st Mixed Brigade supplied 11th Royal Scots Fusiliers (RSF) to 178th (2/1st Nottinghamshire and ...
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