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*'''2006''' amalgamated with the Royal Scots to form the Royal Scots Borderers (1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland)
==British India Service in India==In February 1855 the regiment received orders to return to Britain and men who wished to remain in *'''1801''' [[Egyptian Campaign 1801|Egyptian Campaign]]*'''1853''' India were given leave to transfer to the & Ceylon*'''1878''' [[2nd Afghan War]]*'''1881''' [[Bengal]]*'''1885''' [[Meerut]]*'''1888''' [[43rd Regiment of FootChin Lushai Expedition 1889-90|43rd FootChin Lushai Expedition]] (later 1st Oxfordshire Light Infantry).<ref>Victorian Wars Forum *'''1911''' [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=7554#p33092 post[Ranikhet]]*'''1912''' [[Lucknow]]*'''1919''' [[Agra]] quoting page 81 of *'''The King1921's Own Scottish Borderers'' by Trevor Royle </ref>[[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 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===
*[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 ==<references /> {{#widget:Google PlusOne|size=small|count=true}}
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