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*'''2006''' amalgamated with the Royal Scots to form the Royal Scots Borderers (1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland) | *'''2006''' amalgamated with the Royal Scots to form the Royal Scots Borderers (1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland) | ||
== | == British India Service == | ||
[ | *'''1801''' [[Egyptian Campaign 1801|Egyptian Campaign]] | ||
*'''1853''' India & Ceylon | |||
*'''1878''' [[2nd Afghan War]] | |||
*'''1881''' [[Bengal]] | |||
*'''1885''' [[Meerut]] | |||
*'''1888''' [[Chin Lushai Expedition 1889-90|Chin Lushai Expedition]] | |||
*'''1911''' [[Ranikhet]] | |||
*'''1912''' [[Lucknow]] | |||
*'''1919''' [[Agra]] | |||
*'''1921''' [[North West Frontier Campaigns|North West Frontier]] | |||
In February 1855 the regiment received orders to return to Britain and men who wished to remain in India were given leave to transfer to the [[43rd Regiment of Foot|43rd Foot]] (later 1st Oxfordshire Light Infantry).<ref>derekb. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190421114415/http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=7554 Charles ATKINSON, 25th Foot 1854-64, Indian service?] ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 6 October 2012, now an archived webpage, quoting page 81 of ''The King's Own Scottish Borderers'' by Trevor Royle.</ref> | |||
==Regimental histories== | |||
*''A Short History of the King's Own Scottish Borderers'' 1923 (42 pages). Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01001096721 | |||
*''All the Blue Bonnets : the history of the King's Own Scottish Borderers'' by Robert Woollcombe 1980 (208 pages). Available at the BL UIN: BLL01009450319 | |||
*''The King's Own Scottish Borderers : a concise history'' by Trevor Royle 2008 (240 pages). Available at the BL UIN: BLL01013779256 | |||
== External links == | |||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Own_Scottish_Borderers King's Own Scottish Borderers] Wikipedia<br> | |||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Scots_Borderers Royal Scots Borderers] Wikipedia<br> | |||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Regiment_of_Scotland Royal Regiment of Scotland] Wikipedia | |||
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080118040208/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/025KOSB.htm The King's Own Scottish Borderers] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20080118043436/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/025-1.htm 1st Battalion],[http://web.archive.org/web/20080118043631/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/025-2.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org an archived website. | |||
*[http://www.kosb.co.uk The King’s Own Scottish Borderers Association and Museum]. Retrieved 15 September 2014 | |||
===Historical books online=== | ===Historical books online=== | ||
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/lowlandscotsregi00assouoft#page/188/mode/2up "The King’s Own Scottish Borderers"] from ''The Lowland Scots Regiments : their origin, character and services previous to the great war of 1914'' edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell 1918 Archive.org | *[http://www.archive.org/stream/lowlandscotsregi00assouoft#page/188/mode/2up "The King’s Own Scottish Borderers"] from ''The Lowland Scots Regiments : their origin, character and services previous to the great war of 1914'' edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell 1918 Archive.org | ||
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/lowlandscotsregi00assouoft#page/207/mode/1up Page 207]. The regiment was in India and Ceylon from 1842 to 1854 | |||
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/lowlandscotsregi00assouoft#page/209/mode/1up Page 209]. The 1st Battalion served in [[2nd Afghan War|Afghanistan]] from the end of 1878. | |||
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174625/page/n3 ''Footslogger An Autobiography''] by Graham Seton (Lieutenant- Colonel G S Hutchinson) 4th Impression 1933 Archive.org. | |||
:He joined the !st Battalion K.O.S.B. in January 1910, page 59, and subsequently went to India in 1911 with the 1st Battalion [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174625/page/n79 page 75] where he became involved with the Durbar, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174625/page/n85 page 82]. | |||
==References== | |||
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[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]] | [[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]] | ||
Latest revision as of 01:04, 22 August 2020
Also known as The Scottish Borderers
History
- 1689 raised as Leven's Regiment by the Earl of Leven
- 1746 known as Semphill's Regiment of Foot
- 1751 became 25th Regiment of Foot
- 1806 became King's Own Borderers
- 1887 became King's Own Scottish Borderers
- 2006 amalgamated with the Royal Scots to form the Royal Scots Borderers (1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland)
British India Service
- 1801 Egyptian Campaign
- 1853 India & Ceylon
- 1878 2nd Afghan War
- 1881 Bengal
- 1885 Meerut
- 1888 Chin Lushai Expedition
- 1911 Ranikhet
- 1912 Lucknow
- 1919 Agra
- 1921 North West Frontier
In February 1855 the regiment received orders to return to Britain and men who wished to remain in India were given leave to transfer to the 43rd Foot (later 1st Oxfordshire Light Infantry).[1]
Regimental histories
- A Short History of the King's Own Scottish Borderers 1923 (42 pages). Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001096721
- All the Blue Bonnets : the history of the King's Own Scottish Borderers by Robert Woollcombe 1980 (208 pages). Available at the BL UIN: BLL01009450319
- The King's Own Scottish Borderers : a concise history by Trevor Royle 2008 (240 pages). Available at the BL UIN: BLL01013779256
External links
- King's Own Scottish Borderers Wikipedia
- Royal Scots Borderers Wikipedia
- Royal Regiment of Scotland Wikipedia
- The King's Own Scottish Borderers including deployments: 1st Battalion,2nd Battalion Regiments.org an archived website.
- The King’s Own Scottish Borderers Association and Museum. Retrieved 15 September 2014
Historical books online
- "The King’s Own Scottish Borderers" from The Lowland Scots Regiments : their origin, character and services previous to the great war of 1914 edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell 1918 Archive.org
- Page 207. The regiment was in India and Ceylon from 1842 to 1854
- Page 209. The 1st Battalion served in Afghanistan from the end of 1878.
- Footslogger An Autobiography by Graham Seton (Lieutenant- Colonel G S Hutchinson) 4th Impression 1933 Archive.org.
- He joined the !st Battalion K.O.S.B. in January 1910, page 59, and subsequently went to India in 1911 with the 1st Battalion page 75 where he became involved with the Durbar, page 82.
References
- ↑ derekb. Charles ATKINSON, 25th Foot 1854-64, Indian service? Victorian Wars Forum 6 October 2012, now an archived webpage, quoting page 81 of The King's Own Scottish Borderers by Trevor Royle.