The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
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1st Regiment of Foot

1st Regiment of Foot (The Royal Scots)

1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot

1st (The Royal Scots) Regiment of Foot

His Majesty's Royal Regiment of Foot

Le Regiment d'Hebron

The Lothian Regiment (Royal Scots)

Régiment de Douglas

Royal Regiment of Foot

The Royal Scots Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland

Royal Scots Borderers

The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)

Sir John Hepburn's Regiment

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The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)

The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the oldest and most senior infantry regiment of the line of the British Army, raised in 1633 during the reign of Charles I of Scotland. The regiment existed continuously until 2006, when it amalgamated with the King's Own Scottish Borderers to become the Royal Scots Borderers, which merged with the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment), the Black Watch, the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Motto - Nemo me impune lacessit = No one provokes me with impunity.

Uniform - (see image right)

Corps March -

• Quick: - Dumbarton's Drums or The Daughter of the Regiment (when Royalty is present)
• Slow: - The Garb of Old Gaul
  

Nick-name - Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard

(the regiment claimed it was so old that it was descended from the personal bodyguard of Pontius Pilate in 33 AD)

Ancestry

Timeline

1633 - raised as the Royal Regiment of Foot [WIKI] by Sir John Hepburn, under a royal warrant from Charles I, on the Scottish establishment for service in France. It was formed from a nucleus of Hepburn's previous regiment, formerly in Swedish service, which had been in existence since 1625. In France it absorbed the remnants of other Scottish mercenary units which had fought in Swedish service, and by 1635 its numbers had risen to 8,000 men
1635 - Lord James Douglas was appointed the new colonel;
1637 - name was altered to the Régiment de Douglas, about 1200 Scotsmen.
1645 - Lord Douglas was killed and was replaced as colonel by his elder brother Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus
1661 - recalled to England, becoming a part of the British Establishment, helping to secure the coronation of Charles II. It provided a model for the other regiments founded after the collapse of the New Model Army
Known by other colonels names until 1751-

• 1661 - George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton
  
• 1681 - Count Schomberg
  
• 1691 - Sir R Douglas
  
• 1692 - Lord Hamilton
  
• 1737 - James St. Clair
  

1662–66 and 1667–78, returned to France seeing English service during the Second Anglo-Dutch War;
1679 - posted to Ireland in 1679
1680 - sent to Tangier, where it won its first battle honour.
1684 - named His Majesty's Royal Regiment of Foot, and withdrawn to England.
1685 - fought for James II in the Monmouth Rebellion, at the Battle of Sedgemoor.
1686 - a second battalion was raised.
1688 - they were the only regiment of the army to remain loyal to James in the Glorious Revolution.
1689 - fought at the Battle of Walcourt
1692 - fought at the Battle of Steenkerque
1693 - fought at the Battle of Landen and the Siege of Namur
1704 - 1709 - During the War of the Spanish Succession fought at the Battles of Schellenberg and Blenheim (1704), the Battle of Ramillies (1706), the Battle of Oudenarde (1708) and the Battle of Malplaquet (1709)
1747 - ranked as 1st Regiment of Foot
1751 - titled the 1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot, ranked as the most senior of the line regiments of infantry.
1757 - 1764 - sent to Nova Scotia in 1757, and saw service in the Seven Years' War, capturing Louisburg in 1758, Guadeloupe in 1762 and Havana in 1763;] returned home in 1764
1812 - re-designated 1st Regiment of Foot (The Royal Scots)
1821 - re-designated 1st Regiment of Foot or Royal regiment of Foot
1881 - May, 1st and 2nd Battalions - The Lothian Regiment Royal Scots)
1881 - July, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
1921 - The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
1914 - 1918 - see WIKI and below (Battle honours) for WW1 activity
1919 - 1939 - See WIKI for details
1939 - 1945 - See WIKI and below (Battle honours) for WW2 activity
1949 - reduced to a single regular battalion
2006 - amalgamated with the King's Own Scottish Borderers to become the Royal Scots Borderers,
2006 - Royal Scots Borderers merged with the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment), the Black Watch, the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to form the ]

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• Royal Regiment of Scotland.{{//media.geni.com/p13/25/0e/f8/ed/5344483ea16ba967/line_grey_graded_2px_original.jpg?hash=1e3893ec8f0b3d3a140708e0b4663ea4060ba33d763e5a3ee8a5863fdc87ec36.1739692799|603x3px}}Battle honoursTangier 1680, Namur 1695, Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Louisburg, Havannah, Egmont-op-Zee, Egypt,60 St Lucia 1803, Corunna, Busaco, Salamanca, Vittoria, San Sebastian, Nive, Peninsula, Niagara, Waterloo, Nagpore, Maheidpoor, Ava, Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Taku Forts, Pekin 1860, South Africa 1899–1902World War I (33 battalions): Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres 1915 '17 '18, Gravenstafel, St Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917, St Quentin, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Béthune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Amiens, Bapaume 1918, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, St Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–18, Struma, Macedonia 1915–18, Helles, Landing at Helles, Krithia, Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915–16, Rumani, Egypt 1915–16, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jaffa, Palestine 1917–18, Archangel 1918-19World War II: Dyle, Defence of Escaut, St Omer-La Bassée, Odon, Cheux, Defence of Rauray, Caen, Esquay, Mont Pincon, Aart, Nederrijn, Best, Scheldt, Flushing, Meijel, Venlo Pocket, Roer, Rhineland, Reichswald, Cleve, Goch, Rhine, Uelzen, Bremen, Artlenberg, North-West Europe 1940, '44–45, Gothic Line, Marradi, Monte Gamberaldi, Italy 1944–45, South East Asia 1941, Donbaik, Kohima, Relief of Kohima, Aradura, Shwebo, Mandalay, Burma 1943–45Wadi Al Batin, Gulf 1991Notable PersonnelColonels26 January 1633: Sir John Hepburn26 August 1636: George Hepburn1637: https://www.geni.com/people/Lord-James-Douglas/6000000017529479829 Lord James Douglas
• 1645: Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Ormond
• 21 October 1655: George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton
• 31 December 1688: Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg
• 5 March 1691: Sir Robert Douglas, 3rd Baronet
• 1 August 1692: George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney
• 27 June 1737: James St Clair
• 17 December 1762: Sir Henry Erskine, 5th Baronet
• 11 September 1765: John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll
• 9 May 1782: Lord Adam Gordon
• 27 August 1801: Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
• 29 January 1820: George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon
• 12 December 1834: Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch
• 29 December 1843: Sir George Murray
• 7 August 1846: Sir James Kempt
• 12 December 1854: Sir Edward Blakeney
• 3 August 1868: Gen. Sir George Bell
• 11 July 1877: Henry Phipps Raymond
• 10 December 1897: Sir Edward Andrew Stuart, 3rd Baronet
• 20 August 1903: George Hay Moncrieff
• 16 October 1918: Sir Edward Altham Altham
• 26 March 1935: Granville George Loch
• 22 July 1940: John Hugh Mackenzie
• 2 July 1946: Norman Richard Crockatt
• 1 January 1956: Sir Rohan Delacombe
• 1 October 1964: William Tait Campbell
• 1 January 1975: Sir David Tod Young
• 31 August 1980: Sir Robert Francis Richardson
• 31 August 1990: Charles David MacIver Ritchie
• 20 October 1995: Mark Jeremy Strudwick
• 25 July 2005: Robert Logan Scott-Bowden. Brigadier Scott-Bowden relinquished the colonelcy 28 March 2006, on formation of The Royal Regiment of Scotland.