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King's Own Scottish Borderers
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25th (The King's Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot

25th Regiment of Foot

25th (Sussex) Regiment of Foot

Earl of Leven's Regiment of Foot

Earl Panmure's Regiment of Foot

Edinburgh Regiment of Foot

The King's Own Borderers

King's Own Scottish Borderers

Khyber Line Force

Scottish Borderers Militia

Semphill's Regiment of Foot

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King's Own Scottish Borderers

The King's Own Scottish Borderers 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, see Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment),
  
• the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
  
• the Black Watch - see The Black Watch,
  
• the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) - see Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Cameron) and
  
• the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
  

... to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland, becoming the 1st Battalion of the new regiment.

The King's Own Scottish Borderers is one of only two Scottish regiments never to have been amalgamated before 2006. It is also unusual in that it lost its Scottish status between 1782 and 1887 when it served as the 25th (Sussex) Regiment of Foot.

Mottos - In Veritate Religionis Confido (I put my trust in the truth of religion); Nisi Dominus Frustra (Without the Lord, everything is in vain)

Uniform -

Corps March -

Nick-name -

Last Colonel-in-Chief - HRH the late Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, GCB, CI, GCVO, GBE

Notable commanders - John Cooper (Operation Banner, 1993–97)

Ancestry

Timeline

1689 - 18th March - raised as the Earl of Leven's Regiment or Edinburgh Regiment of Foot by David Melville, 3rd Earl of Leven to defend Edinburgh against the Jacobite forces of James II.
1689 - 27 July - first action was at the Battle of Killiecrankie
1745 - fought at the Battle of Fontenoy as Semphill's Regiment of Foot
1746 - fought at The Battle of Culloden
1747 - Designated Earl Panmure's Regiment of Foot 1751 - ranked as 25th Regiment of Foot (based on its formation date). aka 25th (Edinburgh) Regiment of Foot.
1759 - 1st Aug - fought at the Battle of Minden
1782 - The 25th was the county regiment of Sussex when it became known as the 25th (Sussex) Regiment of Foot.
1801 - awarded the right to bear the emblem of the Sphinx for their role in the Battle of Alexandria
1805 -the recruiting area was moved to the Scottish Borders region and the regiment became known as the King's Own Borderers Regiment of Foot (1st and 2nd Battalions).
1878-1880 - the Second Anglo-Afghan War renamed the Khyber Line Force while guarding the lines of communication between Kabul and Peshawar.
1881 - The King's Own Borderers
1887 - known as the King's Own Scottish Borderers
1887-1901 - Victorian crown on badge
1900 - Scottish Borderers Militia - a 3rd militia was formed - for service in the Second Boer War, and embarked for South Africa two months later. Most of the battalion returned home in June 1902
1901-1952 - Tudor (King's) Crown on badge
after 1952 - Queen's Crown on badge.
2006 - Amalgamated with The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) - to form The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion - the Royal Regiment of Scotland (Black Hackle).

Further amalgamated with ...

• the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
  
• the Black Watch - see The Black Watch,
  
• the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) - see Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Cameron) and
  
• the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
  

to form Royal Regiment of Scotland

Battle honours

• Namur (1695); Minden (1759); Egmont-op-Zee (1799); Egypt (1801); Martinique (1809); Afghanistan (1878–80); Chitral (1895); Tirah (1897–98); Paardeberg, 2nd Anglo-Boer War (1900–02)
• World War I: Mons, Aisne, Ypres, Loos, Somme, Arras, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Hindenberg Line, Gallipoli, Gaza
• World War II: Dunkirk, Sword Beach, Odon, Caen, Arnhem, Flushing, Rhine, Bremen, Burma Campaign (Ngakyedauk Pass, Imphal, Irrawaddy)
• Kowang-San (1951–52); Gulf War (1991)

Colonels of the Regiment[

The Earl of Leven's, or Edinburgh, Regiment of Foot

• 1688–1694: Lt-Gen. David Melville, 3rd Earl of Leven
• 1694–1711: Lt-Gen. James Maitland
• 1711–1715: Brig-Gen. William Breton
• 1715–1721: Field Marshall Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon
• 1721–1732: Brig-Gen. John Middleton
• 1732–1745: Gen. John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes, KT
• 1745–1746: Brig-Gen. Hugh Sempill, 12th Lord Sempill
• 1746–1747: Lt-Gen. John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford
• 1747–1752: Gen. William Maule, 1st Earl of Panmure

25th (Edinburgh) Regiment of Foot - (1751)

• 1752–1761: Lt-Gen. William Home, 8th Earl of Home
• 1761–1762: Lt-Gen. Sir Henry Erskine, Bt

25th (the Sussex) Regiment of Foot - (1782)

• 1762–1805: Gen. Lord George Henry Lennox

25th (the King's Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot - (1805)

• 1805–1831: Gen. Hon. Charles FitzRoy
• 1831–1856: Gen. Sir Henry Frederick Campbell, KCB, GCH
• 1856–1862: Lt-Gen. Sir Henry Somerset, KCB, KH
• 1862–1882: Gen. Henry Dive Townshend

The York Regiment (King's Own Borderers) - (1881)

• 1882–1903: Gen. William Craig Emilius Napier The King's Own Scottish Borderers - (1887)
• 1903–1905: Lt-Gen. Somerset Molyneux Wiseman-Clarke, CB
• 1905–1910: Gen. Sir Frederick William Edward Forestier Forestier-Walker, KCB, GCMG
• 1910–1923: Lt-Gen. Sir Charles Louis Woollcombe, KCB, KCMG
• 1923–1928: F.M. Sir Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE
• 1928–1938: Brig-Gen. Duncan Alwyn Macfarlane, CB, DSO
• 1938–1944: Maj-Gen. Sir Edward Nicholson Broadbent, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO
• 1944–1954: Maj-Gen. Eric Grant Miles, CB, DSO, MC
• 1954–1961: Maj-Gen. James Scott-Elliot, CB, CBE, DSO
• 1961–1970: Lt-Gen. Sir William Francis Robert Turner, KBE, CB, DSO, DL
• 1970–1980: Brig. Francis Henderson Coutts, CBE
• 1980–1985: Brig. Andrew Dewe Myrtle, CB, CBE
• 1985–1990: Brig. Robert William Riddle, OBE
• 1990–1995: Brig. Colin Grierson Mattingley, CBE
• 1995–2001: Maj-Gen. Timothy Toyne Sewell
• 2001–2006: Maj-Gen. John Cooper, DSO, MBE

Notable Personnel

Names with Bold links are to Geni profiles. Other links take you to external biographical web pages.

A

B

• Private BROOKS [BROOKES]. Died c. DEC 1901 during Anglo-Boer War.

C

• John Cooper (Operation Banner, 1993–97)

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

• David Melville, 3rd Earl of Leven - Founder of the regiment.

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Sources, References and Further Reading

• Brereton, J M A Guide to the regiments and Corps of the British Army on the Regular Establishment (Bodley Head) 1985
• Griffin, P D Encyclopedia of Modern British Army Regiments (Sutton Publishers) 2006
• Lumley, Goff Amalgamations in the British Army 1660-2008 (Partizan Press 2009)

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