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*'''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)
==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 Regiment of Foot|43rd Foot]] (later 1st Oxfordshire Light Infantry).<ref>Victorian Wars Forum [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=7554#p33092 post] quoting page 81 of ''The King's Own Scottish Borderers'' by Trevor Royle </ref>
== 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.
===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
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