Also known simply as “The Royals” or “Royal Regiment of Foot” at some points in their history. Back in July 1944, the 3rd (Tank) Battalion landed in France, with heavy fighting still raging in the Normandy area. If you are an archivist or custodian of this archive you can use the archive update form to add or update the details in Discovery Sharing will require cookies. In September the 1st Battalion took part in its second major engagement, at the First Battle of the Marne, which saw the Germans advance halted after much bitter fighting, with the Germans eventually going into retreat. In any event, it is a challenge / project for any buyer, and therefore worthy of the price of £700. From the Regiment’s point of view, WW1 had essentially been an infantry war with huge set piece attacks, extending over weeks or months and often leading to very high casualties. In 1877 Queen Victoria granted the title of Scots Guards to the Regiment. The party successfully reached the first enemy trench but found the left flank to be exposed, and the enemy were lobbing bombs. The Germans had deployed small parties, well concealed in scrub and ditches, to snipe from behind the advancing troops. All the battalions of The Royal Regiment of Scotland are kilted. But for years only the 1st Battalion, the old 26th Foot, went by the name Cameronians while the 2nd Battalion insisted on being referred to as The Scottish Rifles. An old Cameron, captured with much of the old 51st Highland Division at St. Valery in 1940, used to joke "Moskovitz, Schellenberg, O'Hara, Snodgrass, Goldberg, - A Company Cameron Highlanders reporting for duty, Sir." It is now the 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland “The Royal Highland Fusiliers” (2 SCOTS) and members wear a white hackle on their Tam o'Shanters. In 1881 the 71st merged with the 74th Highlanders to form a two battalion regiment. The regiment's 2nd Battalion was almost wiped out when the Japanese invaded Hong Kong in 1941 (See Scottish military Disasters Chapter 30; The Fleet of Foot ). 3rd Tank Battalion Scots Guards ... Click here for photographs of 3rd Scots Click here for page of remembrance Click here for an account of the Battle of Winnekendonk Sergeant James (Jim) Alldred Tank Commander 3rd Scots. In 1914 the regiment was wearing Government tartan with a dark blue overstripe. The unit claims descent from the Scottish mercenaries who served the Kings of France. My Father, James Davidson served with the 1st Battalion Scots Guards and was taken POW at Anzio on 10th of February 1944. The Sergeant subsequently reorganised the company and upon noticing a counter-attack developing, he successfully repulsed it by skillfully exploiting machine-guns to his advantage to inflict very heavy casualties on the German attackers. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items. The regiment switched from Government tartan trews to Douglas tartan in 1891.The Cameronians were raised 1689 from former Presbyterian rebels, the people the Scots Greys were raised to hunt down, to thwart the mainly Catholic rebels seeking to restore the Stuarts to the throne after they were replaced by the Protestant William of Orange and his wife Mary. It suffered heavy casualties at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 (See Chapter 18 ; The Stonewall Highlanders in Scottish Military Disasters) and was the original of Thin Red Line described by war correspondent William Russell which drove off a large force of Russian cavalry at the Battle of Balaklava in 1854. The regiment remained staunchly Scottish, and kilted, in the years up until 1881. Thereafter the struggle went on through the winter until the 2nd Battalion went home in March 1943. Russell actually wrote “thin red streak” in his original report but the phrase is usually remembered as “thin red line”. Renamed 6th Guards Armoured Brigade when Artillery, Engineer & other units joined the brigade prior to crossing the Rhine on 24th March 1944. He survived, but was taken to Stalag 357 which at that time was in Thorn in Poland. Andy. Records of Scots Guards from other sources. The other major difference was that only on the Russian Front was there any real equivalent to the WW1 battlefields of France and Flanders, with its vast network of trenches continuously fought over for four years. The 201st Guards Brigade were located at a position known as Knightsbridge Box, with other 'Boxes' being manned by other British, Commonwealth and Free French brigades which formed the 'Gazala Line'. Two days later war was declared between the British Empire, France and Germany. In 1881 it merged with the 73rd Perthshire Regiment and assigned Perthshire, Fife, and the area around Dundee as its recruiting ground; the depot was in Perth. It was in North Africa that Colonel Archie Stirling of the Scots Guards formed and had the ideal conditions to carry out raiding operations behind the enemy lines with the Special Air Service Regiment. During the First World War all the battalions raised were known as The Scottish Rifles. The other two Battalions in the 24th Guards Brigade had suffered similarly. In May, the regiment saw action at the Battle of Halfaya Pass, which saw British and Commonwealth forces experiencing tough fighting against Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps. Like this page to receive our updates. 2. Engagements that the regiment took part in were many, and it fought valiantly against tough opposition. It was one of the Highland regiments which lost the kilt in 1809 in a bid to attract non-Scottish recruits. It was authorised as a British regiment in 1633 and lent to the French. In July 1917, the regiment began its involvement in the Third Battle of Ypres, which lasted into November. The regiment was merged with the Highland Light Infantry in 1958 and the new unit was christened the Royal Highland Fusiliers. The tartan is based on the old Argylls Government 1A sett. Its traditions are now carried on by the 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland (2 SCOTS) and is based at Glencorse Barracks near Edinburgh. It suffered heavy casualties in India and was one of regiments deprived of the kilt in 1809 to encourage English and Irish recruits and long struggled to maintain even a Scottish identity. I just spoke to my Dad. The Royal Scots Regimental Trust is a charitable body registered in Scotland, with registration number SC008001. Scots Guardsmen should look at the Battle Honour “ANZIO” with particular respect. [citation needed] On 27 April, Captain The Lord Lyell's company took part in the attack on Djebel Bou Aoukaz and were coming under fire from an enemy post, consisting of an 88 mm gun and heavy machine-gun in two separate pits, which was holding the company's advance up. The 1st Battalion, as part of its brigade, joined the 6th South African Armoured Division in May. The Guards Division soon after the end of the war was ordered to the Rhine, eventually crossing the frontier on 11 December. With no regard for his safety, Lieutenant Boyd-Rochfort shouted to the men to look out, and subsequently rushed to the bomb, grabbed it and duly threw it over the parapet where it instantly exploded. By January 1943, the Allied armies had pushed the enemy back significantly, going as far as capturing Tripoli. The fighting was intense as both sides attacked and counterattacked and the casualties reflected it. The reorganisation and regionalisation of the British Army in 1881 saw it narrowly escape becoming a Yorkshire regiment and was instead assigned the Scottish border counties; the depot was at Berwick on Tweed. The last six regiments named were all disbanded at the end of the war. Scots Guards Regimental Headquarters Browse repositories. The two battalion HLI created by the 1881 reforms had the City of Glasgow for a recruiting area and had its depot there from 1920; the original post-1881 depot having been at Hamilton. Despite the severe wounds the Sergeant subsequently made a 'block', encouraged his men and continued to throw grenades until eventually succumbing to the loss of blood. Wellington Barracks Birdcage Walk London England SW1E 6HQ View on map. The breakdown between Battalions, where known, is given below.
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