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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 ...
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)
The two Territorial Army units, the 7th/9th, which was the 7th and 9th battalions merged, and 8th Battalions, mobilised in Scotland in September; the 7th/9th was briefly deployed to France with the 155th Infantry Brigade, alongside the 4th and 5th King's Own Scottish Borderers, of the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division before the collapse of the ...
2nd (Berwickshire) VB, The King's Own Scottish Borderers: 4th Bn, The King's Own Scottish Borderers (part) Brecknockshire: 1st (Brecknockshire) VB, South Wales Borderers: Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers: Buckinghamshire 1st Buckinghamshire VRC (Volunteer Rifle Corps) The Buckinghamshire Bn, The Oxfordshire Light Infantry ...
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 Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers (15 July – 3 December 1943) 7th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment (29 July – 2 November 1943) 13th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (11 August 1943 – 17 January 1944) 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers (1 December 1943 – 23 January 1944) 15th Battalion, Welch Regiment (17–23 ...
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")