1st Regiment of Foot: Difference between revisions

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Also known as The Royal Regiment and The Royal Scots

1625 raised as John Hepburn's Regiment
1633 became the Royal Regiment of Foot
1684 became His Majesty's Royal Regiment of Foot also known until 1751 by the names of colonels
1751 became the 1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot
1812 became the 1st Regiment of Foot (Royal Scots)
1821 became the 1st or The Royal Regiment of Foot
1881 became The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
1921 became The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
2006 amalgamated with The Royal Highland Fusiliers, The King's Own Scottish Borderers, The Black Watch, The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons), and The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, to form The Royal Regiment of Scotland

1st Battalion alternated with		2nd Battalion
1857 Ceylon		1801 Egypt
1884 Egypt		1807 Madras
1912 Allahabad		1814 India
1920 Rangoon		1817 3rd Maratha War
1922 Secunderabad		1825 Burma
1942 Burma		1826 Bangalore
1947 India		1858 China
		1866 India
		1891 India
		1893 Madras
		1897 Mandalay
		1899 Poona
		1904 Kamptee
		1909 Bombay
		1931 Baluchistan
		1835 Lahore

Historical record of the First, or Royal Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the origin of the regiment in the reign of King James VI of Scotland, and of its subsequent services to 1838 by Richard J. Cannon 1838 Google Books . East Indies Service commences page 175 when the Second Battalion arrives on Prince of Wales Island (Penang) in 1807
"The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)" 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
Narrative of the captivity of an officer, who fell into the hands of the Burmāhs during the late war by Captain Richard Bennett 1827 Google Books
"Burma and the Burmese During the Late War" by Major Bennett, Royal Regiment. The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine 1838 Part 3 page 76,page 207, page 371, page 511 Google Books

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 == External Links ==
-[http://web.archive.org/web/20051230133307/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/001RScot.htm The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)] regiments.org<br>
+[http://web.archive.org/web/20051230133307/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/001RScot.htm The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20060103015708/www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/001-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20060117173939/www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/001-2.htm 2nd Battalion] regiments.org<br>
 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Scots Royal Scots] Wikipedia<br>
-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Regiment_of_Scotland Royal Regiment of Scotland] Wikipedia
+[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Regiment_of_Scotland Royal Regiment of Scotland] Wikipedia<br>
+Chris Paton’s [http://chrispatonscotland.tripod.com/id81.html William Alexander Halliday abt 1800 - 6/11/1831]
 ====Historical Books Online====
 *[http://books.google.com/books?id=IrlCAAAAYAAJ ''Historical record of the First, or Royal Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the origin of the regiment in the reign of King James VI of Scotland, and of its subsequent services to 1838''] by Richard J. Cannon 1838  Google Books . East Indies Service commences  [http://books.google.com/books?id=IrlCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA175 page 175] when the Second Battalion arrives on Prince of Wales Island  (Penang) in 1807