Left: Uniform of the 21st Regiment of Foot in 1742 - by Madeley - Richard Cannon (1849). Historical Record of the Twenty-First Regiment, or the Royal North British Fusiliers. London: Parker, Furnivall, & Parker. p. 24., Public Domain, Wiki Commons; Badges from left ;1 - 21st Regiment of Foot or Royal North British Fusiliers - adapted from saleroom by CJB; 2 - Royal Scots Fusiliers - Victorian Crown; 3 - Royal Scots Fusiliers - King's Crown); (2&3 Courtesy of Military Badge Collection).

Royal Scots Fusiliers

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5th Earl of Mar's Regiment

5th Royal Regiment of Foot

21st Regiment of Foot

21st Royal North British Fusiliers

21st (Royal North British Fusilier) Regiment of Foot

21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot

Colonel Charles Erskine's Regiment of Foot

Duke of Marlborough's Own

The Earl of Mar's Regiment of Foot

Mar's Grey Breeks

North British Fusiliers

North British Fusilier Regiment of Foot

Royal North British Fusiliers

Royal Scots Fusiliers

The Scots Fusilier Regiment of Foot

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Royal Scots Fusiliers

The Royal Scots Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1678 to 1959 when it was amalgamated with the Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) which was merged in 1958/9 with the Royal Scots Borderers, the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Active - 1678-1959

Motto - Nemo me impune lacessit “No one provokes me with impunity”

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Timeline

1678 - raised as Earl of Mar's Regiment of Foot (a.k.a. Mar's Grey Breeks), in Scotland by Stuart loyalist Charles Erskine, 5th Earl of Mar for service against the rebel covenanting forces during the Second Whig Revolt (1678–1679)

1688 - In the Glorious Revolution the regiment was ordered south. It was loyal to James II of England, but when he fled to Ireland, it served Prince William of Orange.

1685 - 1707 - converted to fusiliers The Scots Fusilier Regiment of Foot with the nickname Duke of Marlborough's Own, serving in all of the Duke's campaigns in the War of the Spanish Succession.

1707 - 1713 - renamed the North British Fusilier Regiment of Foot reflecting the Treaty of Union that led to the creation of Great Britain
c1713 - awarded the title "Royal" - 21st (Royal North British Fusilier) Regiment of Foot

Known by Colonels Names until 1751

• 1686 - Thomas Buchan
  
• 1689 - F F O'Farrell
  
• 1695 - R MacKay
  
• 1697 - A Rowe
  
• 1704 - Viscount John Mordaunt
  
• 1706 - S De Lalo
  
• 1709 - Viscount John Mordaunt
  
• 1710 - T Meredith
  
• 1710 - Ear of Orrery
  
• 1716 - G Macartney
  
• 1727 - Sir J Wood
  
• 1738 - J Campbell
  

1743 - under the command of Sir Andrew Agnew, 5th Baronet at the Battle of Dettingen during the War of the Austrian Succession
1746 - fought against the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden during the Second Jacobite Rebellion.
1747 [Lumley] or 1751 [WIKI] - ranked the 21st Regiment of Foot.
1751 - Formally named 21st Regiment of Foot - a.k.a. 21st Royal North British Fusiliers
1777 - at the Siege of Fort Ticonderoga in July during the American Revolutionary War
1814 - took part in the Siege of Bergen op Zoom in March during the Napoleonic Wars
1815 - fought at the Battle of New Orleans in January during the War of 1812
1854 - served under Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Haines at the Battle of Inkerman in November during the Crimean War.
1877 - restoration of "Scots" in their title - 21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
1881 - became a Lowland Regiment, (adopting trews), losing its numbering, - Royal Scots Fusiliers
1914-1918 - See WIKI and Battle honours below for WW1 activity
1939-1945 - See WIKI and Battle honours below for WW2 activity

1958 - amalgamated with the Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)

1959 - amalgamated with ...

• the Royal Scots Borderers,
  
• the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment),
  
• the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and
  
• the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
  

... to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Battle honours

• Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen, Bellisle, Martinique 1794, Bladensburg, Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, South Africa 1879, Burma 1885–87, Tirah, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899–1902
• The Great War (18 battalions): Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Ypres 1914 '17 '18, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Messines 1917, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, St Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Béthune, Scherpenberg, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenberg Line, Canal du Nord, Courtrai, Selle, France and Flanders 1914–18, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1916–18, Helles, Gallipoli 1915–16, Rumani, Egypt 1916–17, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Tel Asur, Palestine 1917–18
• The Second World War: Defence of Arras, Ypres-Comines Canal, Somme 1940, Withdrawal to Seine, Odon, Fontenay le Pesnil, Cheux, Defence of Rauray, Mont Pincon, Estry, Falaise, Le Vie Crossing, La Touques Crossing, Aart, Nederrijn, Best, Le Havre, Antwerp-Turnhout Canal, Scheldt, South Beveland, Lower Maas, Meijel, Venlo Pocket, Roer, Rhineland, Reichswald, Cleve, Goch, Rhine, Dreirwalde, Uelzen, Bremen, Artlenberg, North-West Europe 1940 '44–45, Landing in Sicily, Sicily 1943, Sangro, Garigliano Crossing, Minturno, Anzio, Advance to Tiber, Italy 1943–44, Madagascar, Middle East 1942, North Arakan, Razabil, Pinwe, Shweli, Mandalay, Burma 1944–45
• 4th Battalion: South Africa 1900–02
• 5th Battalion: South Africa 1900–01
  

Notable Personnel

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

Victoria Crosses

• Second Lieutenant Stanley Henry Parry Boughey, First World War (1 December 1917)WIKI Stanley Boughy
• Sergeant Thomas Caldwell, First World War (31 October 1918) WIKI
• Second Lieutenant John Manson Craig, First World War (5 June 1917) WIKI
• Fusilier Dennis Donnini, Second World War (18 January 1945) WIKI
• Private David Ross Lauder, First World War (13 August 1915) WIKI
• Private George Ravenhill Second Boer War (15 December 1899)

Colonels of the Regiment

• 1678–1686: Col. Charles Erskine, 5th Earl of Mar (Lord Erskine) The Scots Fusiliers
• 1686–1689: Col. Thomas Buchan WIKI

21st Regiment of Foot

• 1689–1695: Brig-Gen. Francis Fergus O'Farrell WIKI
• 1695–1697: Col. Hon. Robert Mackay
• 1697–1704: Col. Archibald Rowe
• 1704–1706: Brig-Gen. John Mordaunt, Viscount Mordaunt
• 1706–1709: Maj-Gen. Sampson de Lalo

The North British Fusiliers

• 1709–1710: Brig-Gen. John Mordaunt, Viscount Mordaunt [reappointed]
• 1710: Lt-Gen. Thomas Meredyth [cashiered 1710) WIKI
• 1710–1716: Maj-Gen. Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, KT

The Royal North British Fusiliers

• 1716–1727: Lt-Gen. George MacCartney
• 1727–1738: Maj-Gen. Sir James Wood, 2nd Baronet
• 1738–1752: Gen. John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, KT

21st (Royal North British) Fusiliers

• 1752–1770: Gen. William Maule, 1st Earl of Panmure
• 1770–1789: Lt-Gen. Hon. Alexander Mackay
• 1789–1794: Gen. Hon. James Murray
• 1794–1803: Gen. James Inglis Hamilton WIKI
• 1803–1816: Gen. Hon. William Gordon of Fyvie
• 1816–1843: Gen. James Ochoncar Forbes, 17th Baron Forbes
• 1843–1853: Gen. Sir Frederick Adam, GCB, GCMG
• 1853–1870: Gen. Sir George de Lacey Evans, GCB WIKI
• 1870–1890: Gen. Sir Frederick William Hamilton. KCB

The Royal Scots Fusiliers

• 1890–1909: [ Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Haines Field Marshall Sir Frederick Paul Haines, GCB, GCSI, CIE]
• 1909–1919: Lt-Gen. John Thomas Dalyell
• 1919–1946: Marshal of the RAF (Col.) Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, GCB
• 1946–1957: Maj-Gen. Sir Edmund Hakewill Smith, KCVO, CB, CBE, MC
• 1957–1959: Brig. Archibald Ian Buchanan-Dunlop, CBE, DSO The Peerage

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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)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Scots_Fusiliers
• http://www.1914-1918.net/rsfus.htm - The Long, Long Trail
• https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/units/313/royal-scots-fusiliers/
• http://rhf.org.uk/rhf/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=...
• http://www.regimentsofscotland.com/royal-scots-fusiliers-21st/
• https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/AYR/Military/21st

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