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The King's Own Scottish Borderers (KOSBs) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Scottish Division.On 28 March 2006 the regiment was amalgamated with the Royal Scots, the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment), the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons), the Argyll and Sutherland ...
1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers; 2nd Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles; 9th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company; Divisional Troops 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars (until 31 March 1940) 7th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery; 23rd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (until 5 March 1940) 33rd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
Remaining in the army during the difficult interwar period, he became commanding officer of the 1st Battalion the King's Own Scottish Borderers in 1940 during the Second World War. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He went on to be commander of the 219th Independent Brigade in June 1941, commandant of the Senior Officers' School in November 1941 and general officer ...
In 1920, he was commissioned into the King's Own Scottish Borderers, as a 2nd lieutenant, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel by 1939.During this time, he served as the commanding officer of the 6th Battalion of the Scottish Borderers (from 1939 to 1941), as well as assistant adjutant general of the War Office (from 1943 to 1944 – under General Sir Ronald Adam).
In 1942 he was appointed Commanding Officer of 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, a post he held for the remainder of the war. [1] After the war Turner went with his regiment to Palestine. [2] He then held various General Staff Officer positions before becoming commander of the British Military Mission to Greece in 1950. [1]
Macdonald entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned into the King's Own Scottish Borderers on 1 September 1927 [1] and served in the Second World War. [ 2 ] He commanded the 1st Battalion, the King's Own Scottish Borderers on its deployment to Korea in April 1951 [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and then took command of the 28th ...
5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers (from 12 February 1945) 7th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (from 14 March 1945) Divisional troops 52nd Divisional artillery, Royal Artillery. 78th (Lowland) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (left 3 June 1942) 79th (Lowland) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (until 8 June, rejoined 1 July 1940)
The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Scotland (1 SCOTS) was a battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.The battalion formed on 1 August 2006 when its antecedent regiments - the Royal Scots and the King's Own Scottish Borderers - amalgamated just after the formation of the Royal Regiment of Scotland in 2006.