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The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) (1881) 10 December 1897: Maj-Gen. Sir Edward Andrew Stuart, 3rd Baronet; 20 August 1903: Lt-Gen. George Hay Moncrieff; 16 October 1918: Lt-Gen. Sir Edward Altham Altham; The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) (1921) 26 March 1935: Maj-Gen. Granville George Loch; 22 July 1940: Col. John Hugh Mackenzie
The Royal Scots expansion during the Second World War was modest compared to 1914–1918. National Defence Companies were combined to create a new " Home Defence " battalion. In addition 17 battalions of the Home Guard were affiliated to the regiment, wearing its cap badge, and also by 1944 two batteries of [Anti-Aircraft] rocket batteries ( Z ...
Lt-Col Alexander Blair. Lt-Col William Green. The 9th Battalion, Royal Scots was the highland (kilted) battalion of the Royal Scots. Formed in 1900 as a part-time Volunteer Force battalion in Edinburgh, in 1908, as part of the Haldane Reforms, it became a Territorial Force battalion. During the First World War it served on the Western Front.
It was designated 4th/5th (Queen's Edinburgh) Bn The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) (52nd Searchlight Regiment) and consisted of HQ, 405, 406, 407 Companies based at Forrest Road. At the same time, the TA was doubled in size following the Munich Crisis , so A Company at Linlithgow was separated to become the basis for 14th (West Lothian Royal ...
Other units were also posted to the Lothian Brigade for short periods in early 1915, including Special Reserve (former Militia) battalions: [3] 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers; 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
The right-hand column had to advance along the convex slope on the west side of Fricourt Spur, for which the leading companies of the 15th (Service) Battalion (1st Edinburgh), The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) (15th Royal Scots) had advanced to within 200 yd (180 m) of the German front line before zero hour. [17]
15th (Scottish) Division. The 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army that served in the First World War. The 15th (Scottish) Division was formed from men volunteering for Kitchener's Army, and served from 1915 to 1918 on the Western Front. The division was later disbanded, after the war, in 1919.
2nd Battalion, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) 2nd Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment; 4th Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) 1st Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders [8] Men of 4th/Royal Fusiliers, 9th Brigade, resting before the Battle of Mons, 22 August 1914. 9th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General F. C. Shaw)