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The 51st Highland Volunteers (51 HIGHLAND) is a battalion in the British Army's Army Reserve or reserve force in the Scottish Highlands, forming the 7th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, also known as 7 SCOTS.
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 ...
Arnhem area showing the designated drop and landing zones King George VI inspects men of the 7th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, 1st Airborne Division, in the North Midlands, 1944. After service in the Mediterranean the brigade returned to Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire , where it was reinforced by the arrival of the 7th Battalion, King ...
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)
1st Battalion, The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)] – (1959–2006) 1st Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderers – (1689–2006) 1st Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) – (1881–2006) 1st Battalion, The Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) – (1961–1994)
The North Uist-born war poet Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna, a highly important figure in 20th century Scottish Gaelic literature, saw combat with the 7th (Service) Battalion King's Own Cameron Highlanders, 44th Infantry Brigade, 15th (Scottish) Division during the trench warfare along the Western Front and vividly described his war experiences in verse.
7th/8th (Service) Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers (from May 1916) [a] 46th Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps (formed 11 February 1916, moved to 15th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps 17 March 1918) 10th/11th (Service) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (from May 1916 until February 1918) 46th Trench Mortar Battery (formed May 1916)
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [26]; 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")