Royal Scots Borderers

Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland

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Cap Badge of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
Active 1 August 2006–
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Branch  British Army
Type Line Infantry
Role Light Role
Part of 38 (Irish) Brigade
Garrison/HQ Palace Barracks, Holywood, Holywood
Motto Nemo Me Impune Lacessit (No One Assails Me With Impunity)
Commanders
Current
commander		 Lt Col Wight Boycott
Royal Colonel HRH The Princess Royal
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash
Tartan Government
Royal Stewart (Pipers kilts and plaids)
Hackle Black

The Royal Scots Borderers (1 SCOTS) is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. Five Scottish regiments amalgamated to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland on 28 March 2006 and two of the battalions, the Royal Scots Battalion and the King's Own Scottish Borderers Battalion, then merged four months later, on 1 August 2006, to form the Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland.

History

When five Scottish regiments were amalgamated to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland on 28 March 2006, the Royal Scots Battalion and the King's Own Scottish Borderers Battalion initially maintained their identities as separate battalions.[1]

However almost immediately the Ministry of Defence moved to amalgamate the two battalions. This was not a new idea: the origins of the combined entity, Royal Scots Borderers, dates from the 1990 Options for Change review, when it was initially announced that the Royal Scots and King's Own Scottish Borderers would amalgamate. That amalgamation was subsequently rescinded.[2] The Royal Scots Battalion and King's Own Scottish Borderers Battalion duly amalgamated on 1 August 2006 – upon their amalgamation, the new battalion took the name Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland.[3]

Uniform and traditions

The battalion wears a flat black hackle behind the Royal Regiment of Scotland cap badge on the TOS (Tam o' Shanter) to distinguish itself as the Royal Scots Borderers. It recruits its soldiers from Dumfries and Galloway, Edinburgh, the Lothians, Borders and parts of Lanarkshire, which was traditionally the recruiting ground of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) until they were disbanded in 1968. The battalion home headquarters and museums are based at Edinburgh Castle for the Royal Scots and Berwick for the King's Own Scottish Borderers. A Company of 52nd Lowland, 6th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland maintains an affiliation to the 1st Battalion.[4]

Deployments

Since the amalgamation, the battalion has been deployed to Iraq on Operation TELIC and to Afghanistan on Operation HERRICK.[5] They were most recently deployed to Afghanistan in September 2012 as part of Operation HERRICK 17.[6] The regiment has also deployed on Operation GRITROCK to Sierra Leone to help fight the outbreak of Ebola[7] and on Operation TOSCA to Cyprus as part of the ongoing UN operations.

Alliances

References

  1. ↑ "Royal Regiment of Scotland". British Army units 1945 on. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  2. ↑ Royal, Trevor (2011). The King's Own Scottish Borderers: A Concise History.
  3. ↑ "Why the Royal Scots can no longer hold the line". The Telegraph. 10 October 2004. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "The Territorial Army". The Royal Scots. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  5. ↑ 1 SCOTS - Operations
  6. ↑ "1 SCOTS depart on Afghanistan deployment". MoD. 18 September 2012.
  7. ↑ "UK Soldiers Deployed To Ebola Epicentre". Sky News. 8 October 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2015.

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