Royal Scots
Dates | Locations | Higher Formation/Remarks |
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. | 7th/9th (Highlanders) Battalion, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) | . |
1947.01.01 | Reconstituted in the TA with HQ at Claremont Street, Edinburgh | . |
1961.04.01 | Re-organised as 8th/9th Battalion, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) absorbed duplicate 8th Battalion with HQ at Claremont Street, Edinburgh | . |
. | Edinburgh Company at Claremont Street, Edinburgh, formed from 7th/9th Bn | . |
. | Leith Company at Claremont Street, Edinburgh, formed from 7th/9th Bn | . |
. | East Lothian Company at Tranent, pln a Haddington, formed from 8th Bn | . |
. | West Lothian Company at Bathgate and Broxburn, formed from 8th Bn | . |
. | Midlothian Company at Penicuik, det at Dalkeith, formed from 8th Bn | . |
. | Peebleshire Company at Peebles, formed from 8th Bn | . |
1967.04.01 | Disbanded and concurrently reconstituted as two companies: | . |
. | A Company (The Royal Scots), 52nd Lowland Volunteers, formed in TAVR II at Edinburgh and Bathgate | . |
. | A Company (8th/9th Royal Scots), The Royal Scots and Cameronians Territorials formed in TAVR III at Bathgate | . |
1969.04.01 | TAVR III element reduced to cadre as 8th/9th (Territorial) Battalion, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), sponsored by 52nd Lowland Volunteers | . |
1971.04.01 | reorganised at two companies: | . |
. | A Company (The Royal Scots), 1st Battalion, 52nd Lowland Volunteers at Edinburgh and Bathgate | . |
. | No.1 (8th/9th Battalion The Royal Scots) Company, 2nd Battalion, 52nd Lowland Volunteers at Penicuik, reconstituted from cadre | . |
1982.01 | A Coy redesignated as No 2 (Royal Scots) Company, 2nd Battalion | . |
1992.04.01 | Companies reorganised with a view to becoming TA battalion of proposed merger of The Royal Scots and The King's Own Scottish Borderers (but that merger was rescinded): No 1 Company disbanded | . |
. | HQ Company and Support Group, 2nd Battalion, 52nd Lowland Volunteers at Motherwell and Bathgate, with new pln at Bathgate badged Royal Scots) | . |
. | A (Royal Scots) Company, 2nd Battalion, 52nd Lowland Volunteers at Edinburgh and Bathgate, redesignation of No 2 Coy | . |
199u | Royal Scots elements of 2nd Battalion reorganised: | . |
. | HQ (Royal Scots) Company and Bn Sp Gp at Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh, with rifle pln at Bathgate | . |
. | Royal Scots Platoon, D (Cameronians) Company at Bathgate, with remainder of coy at Motherwell | . |
1995.06.03 | Battalion redesignated as The Lowland Volunteers | . |
1999.07.01 | A (Royal Scots) Company, 52nd Lowland Regiment at East Claremont Street, Edinburgh with Pln at Bathgate, formed by amalgamation of HQ Coy and Bathgate Pln of D Coy, The Lowland Volunteers (battalion formed by amalgamation of The Lowland Volunteers, and 3rd (V) Bn, The Royal Highland Fusiliers) | . |
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. | 8th (Lothians and Peebleshire) Battalion, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) | . |
1947.01.01 | Reconstituted in the TA with HQ at Haddington | . |
. | <four coys> in Haddington | . |
. | <two coys> in Midlothian | . |
. | <two coys> in Peebleshire | . |
1961.04.01 | Amalgamated with 7th/9th Battalion, to form 8th/9th Battalion, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) | . |
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1967.04.01 | The Royal Scots and Cameronians Territorials formed in TAVR III with HQ at Edinburgh and companies as successors to T.A. battalions: | . |
. | A Company (8th/9thÃÂ Royal Scots) at Bathgate, successor to 8th/9th Bn, The Royal Scots | . |
. | B Company (6th/7th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)) at Hamilton, successor to 6th/7th Bn, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) | . |
1969.01.01 | Reduced to two cadres: | . |
. | 8th/9th (T) Battalion, The Royal Scots, at Edinburgh, sponsored by 52nd Lowland Volunteers | . |
. | 6th/7th (T) Battalion, The Cameronians at Hamilton, sponsored by 52nd Lowland Volunteers | . |
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