The Royal Scots Regiment

The Royal Scots was the oldest and therefore the most senior infantry regiment of the line in the British Army. It was raised in 1633 during the reign of Charles I of Scotland as the Royal Regiment of Foot, and it existed until 2006 when it amalgamated with the King’s Own Scottish Borderers to become the 1^st Battalion of the newly formed Royal Regiment of Scotland.

The 1/4^th mobilised in Edinburgh in August 1914 and was assigned to the 52^nd (Lowland) Division. They fought at the Battle of Gallipoli before being moved to Egypt in 1916 and serving in the Sinai and Palestinian Campaign. They were sent to France in April 1918 for the Second Battle of the Somme and remained there until the end of the War.

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