25th Regiment of Foot

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
• 1828 India
• 1839 Afghanistan
• 1843 Gwalior
• 1872 India
• 1881 Bengal
• 1903 Jubbulpore
• 1906 Raniket
• 1909 Subathu
• 1912 Ambala
• 1914 Quetta
• 1919 Afghanistan

Service in India

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).

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.

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.