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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Until 2004, the Royal Scots had been one of five line infantry regiments never to be amalgamated in its entire history, a claim shared by The Green Howards, The Cheshire Regiment, The Royal Welch Fusiliers and The King's Own Scottish Borderers. When five Scottish regiments were amalgamated to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland on 28 March 2006 ...
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 ...
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")
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]