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The King's Own Scottish Borderers Football Club (also referred to as 2nd K.O.S.B.) was the association football team of the 2nd battalion of the King's Own Scottish Borderers. [ 3 ] History
It took part in the Scottish Combination from 1908 to 1910 to little effect. [5] The club's only major success was winning the Southern Counties Cup, for teams in the south-west of Scotland, in 1915, beating St Cuthbert's Wanderers F.C. 2–1 in a replay at Dumfries F.C. 's Eastfield Park, the winner being scored by Potter with ten minutes to go.
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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 ...
Hastie worked in an electrical power station in Edinburgh. [1] [2] Prior to the First World War, he served in the King's Own Scottish Borderers as a territorial. [5]After the outbreak of the war, Hastie enlisted as a private in the Gordon Highlanders in Aberdeen, and was killed in action in West Flanders on 14 December 1914.
After a re-organisation of the volunteer forces in 1896, the club tendered its resignation to the Scottish Football Association at the end of the 1896–97 season, [9] and a new football club, the Maxwelltown Volunteers F.C. emerged, continuing to play at Palmerston Park until 1908 when they re-formed as the 5th King's Own Scottish Borderers F.C..
A goalkeeper, he was freed by his first club, Blackpool, but rekindled his career by signing for Workington in 1952, dovetailing football with work in the local pit. National Service with the King's Own Scottish Borderers afforded Wallace the opportunity of signing for the local club, Berwick Rangers.
He served in the Great War with the 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, and after the war returned to football, and the Maxwelltown Juniors (known locally as the "Fish Suppers"). [ citation needed ] Joining Queen of the South in 1919, the year of their formation, he played for Queen's as a forward during his stay at Palmerston.