Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 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.
The 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers F.C. was an association football club from Glasgow, which caused a surprise in the 1891–92 Scottish Cup qualifying round. History [ edit ]
Caldwell was 24 years old, and a sergeant in the 12th (Ayr & Lanark Yeomanry) Battalion, the Royal Scots Fusiliers, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers (transferred from South African Brigade 13 September 1918) 1st Battalion, Royal Newfoundland Regiment (joined September 1918) 28th Machine Gun Company (formed 3 January 1916 transferred to South African Brigade 6 May 1916) 28th Trench Mortar Battery(joined 11 September 1918) 1st South African Brigade
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]
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.
Royal Dublin Fusiliers; Royal Fusiliers; Royal Highland Fusiliers; Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers; Royal Irish Fusiliers; Royal Munster Fusiliers; Royal Northumberland Fusiliers; Royal Pembroke Fusiliers; Royal Regiment of Fusiliers; Royal Scots Fusiliers; Royal Tyrone Fusiliers; Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers; Royal Welch Fusiliers