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The Scottish Horse was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army's Territorial Army raised in 1900 for service in the Second Boer War.It saw heavy fighting in both the First World War, as the 13th Battalion, Black Watch, and in the Second World War, as part of the Royal Artillery.
The 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army that served during the Second World War. It was raised on 2 September 1939, the day before war was declared, as part of the Territorial Army (TA) and served in the United Kingdom and later North-West Europe from June 1944 to May 1945.
Includes non-commissioned officers and men of the Scottish Horse yeomanry regiments of the British Army. Pages in category "Scottish Horse soldiers" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
The Scottish Horse Mounted Brigade was a formation of the Territorial Force of the British Army, raised in August 1914, [a] during the First World War. After service in the Gallipoli Campaign and in the defence of Egypt , it was absorbed into the 1st Dismounted Brigade in February 1916.
The commission decided that only the 14 most senior regiments were to be retained as cavalry, the others being variously converted to armoured cars or artillery. However, two Scottish Yeomanry regiments remained mounted as 'Scouts': the Scottish Horse and the Lovat Scouts (reduced to a single regiment). [18] [19] Lovat Scouts in ghillie suits
Category: Regiments of the British Army in World War II. 1 language. ... Scottish Horse (1 C, 13 P) Seaforth Highlanders (2 C, 6 P) Sherwood Foresters (2 C, 26 P)
This is a list of regiments within the British Army's Royal Armoured Corps during the Second World War.. On the creation of the corps in 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War, it comprised those regular cavalry and Territorial Army Yeomanry regiments that had been mechanised, [1] together with the Royal Tank Regiment. [2]
John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar (16 September 1906 – 8 March 1996) was a British Army officer. Nicknamed "Fighting Jack Churchill" and "Mad Jack", he fought in the Second World War with a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword, and a set of bagpipes.