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== British India Service ==
*'''1801''' [[Egyptian Campaign 1801|Egyptian Campaign]]
*'''18281853''' India& Ceylon*'''18391878''' [[1st 2nd Afghan War|Afghanistan]]*'''1843''' [[Gwalior]]*'''1872''' India
*'''1881''' [[Bengal]]
*'''19031885''' Jubbulpore[[Meerut]]*'''19061888''' [[RanikhetChin Lushai Expedition 1889-90|RaniketChin Lushai Expedition]]*'''19091911''' [[SubathuRanikhet]]*'''1912''' [[AmbalaLucknow]]*'''19141919''' [[QuettaAgra]]*'''19191921''' [[3rd Afghan WarNorth West Frontier Campaigns|AfghanistanNorth 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>
==Service in IndiaRegimental histories==In February 1855 *''A Short History of the regiment received orders to return to Britain and men who wished to remain in India were given leave to transfer to King's Own Scottish Borderers'' 1923 (42 pages). Available at the [[43rd Regiment of Foot|43rd FootBritish Library]] UIN: BLL01001096721*''All the Blue Bonnets : the history of the King's Own Scottish Borderers'' by Robert Woollcombe 1980 (later 1st Oxfordshire Light Infantry208 pages).<ref>Victorian Wars Forum [httpAvailable at the BL UIN://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=7554#p33092 post] quoting page 81 of BLL01009450319 *''The King's Own Scottish Borderers: a concise history'' by Trevor Royle </ref>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}}
[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]
