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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, ...
Andrew Walker (1953/1954 – 3 September 2021) [1] was a British Army corporal in the Royal Scots who murdered three colleagues in a payroll robbery in the Pentland Hills, south of Edinburgh, in January 1985. After he was convicted, Walker was sentenced to 27 years imprisonment, but was released in 2011.
The inscription reads: 'to the memory of the 97 soldiers who died in the massacre on 27 May 1940 at Le Paradis, Northern France [badge of the Royal Norfolk Regiment] These soldiers were drawn from the 2nd Battalion The Royal Norfolk Regiment, 1st Battalion The Royal Scots and other British Expeditionary Force units'.
Royal Court of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542−1567) — courtiers, diplomats, servants, and artisans at the Royal Court of Scotland, as well as her court as queen in France. v t
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
Sir James entered the Royal Scots, rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and fought in the Battle of Blenheim as aide-de-camp to his uncle George Douglas-Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney. [11] [12] He went on to become a Whig MP for Dysart Burghs in 1710. [13] Sir Charles Hamilton KB, born to Lady Barbara FitzRoy. Charles was exiled to France on ...
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
Ford was still serving in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots, when he and his brother were taken prisoner by the invading Japanese upon the fall of Hong Kong in December 1941. During his captivity at Sham Shui Po POW camp he made contact with British agents and planned, in conjunction with other officers, a major break out. Before the plans could ...