Royal Scottish Border Guards, 1^st Battalion of Royal Scottish Regiment, Pipes and Drums

Royal Scottish Border Guards, 1^st Battalion of Royal Scottish Regiment, Pipes and Drums

Subdivision of the Royal Scottish Border Guards of the 1^st Battalion of Royal Scottish Regiment was formed in 2006 by combining the two celebrated units — Royal Scottish Regiment and King’s Scottish Border Guards. At present the Royal Scottish Border Guards are quartered in Edinburgh and is a light infantry battalion of the 4^th Mechanised Brigade of the British Army.

The Royal Scottish Regiment distinguished in the battles at Fontenoy, La Coruna, Waterloo, participated in the Anglo-Bursa and Crimean wars, took part in the whole Western Front during World War I. During World War II the regiment battalions fought in the battlefields of Europe and Far East. From then onward the regiment served at Cyprus, in the Suez, Aden, Northern Ireland, and Persian Gulf and on the Balkans.

The King’s own Scottish Regiment participated in the siege of Gibraltar, battles at Fontenoy and Minden, as marine infantry at the capture of Martinique and Guadeloupe. They went through the whole Anglo-Bursa War and World War I, during World War II served near Dunkirk and in other sectors of the Western Front, as well as in the Far East. Thereafter this unit fulfilled the military mission in Korea, Malaya, Aden, and Borneo, Northern Ireland and in the Persian Gulf.