The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, the Duke of Albany’s)
The Queens’ Own Cameron Highlanders (Amalgamated to form the Queen’s Own Highlanders 1961)

Each had 1st and 2nd Regular Army Bns

Had 1st and 2nd Regular Army Bns

Each had 1st and 2nd Regular Army Bns
(2nd Bn of QOCHdrs raised in 1897)

Had 1st and 2nd Regular Army Bns

Pre 1881 Regimental Numbers

The Royal Scots Borderers

The Royal Highland Fusiliers

The Black Watch

The Highlanders

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

1st, 25th, 26th and 90th

21st, 71st and 74th

42nd and 73rd

72nd, 75th, 78th, 79th and 92nd

91st and 93rd

Militia Battalions (Historical and 1881 titles as a first line reserve)

(Edinburgh or Queen’s Regiment Light Infantry Militia)
3rd Bn The Royal Scots

(Dumfries Militia, Scottish Borderers Militia)
3rd Bn KOSB (1886)

(2nd Royal Lanarkshire Militia, two Bns)
3rd Bn and 4th Bn The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

(Ayr and Renfrew (7th North British) Militia; Ayrshire Regiment of Militia; The Prince Regent’s Royal Regiment of Ayrshire Militia; The Royal Ayrshire Regiment of Militia Rifles; The Prince Regent’s Royal Regiment of Ayr and Wigton Militia )
3rd Bn The Royal Scots Fusiliers

(Lanark Militia; Royal Lanark Militia)
3rd Bn and 4th Bn The Highland Light Infantry

(Perthshire Militia Regiment; The Royal Perthshire Rifles)
3rd Bn The Black Watch

(2nd North British (or Ross-shire Regiment of Militia; 5th Ross, Sutherland, Shetland and Cromarty Militia; 96th Ross, Caithness, Sutherland and Cromarty Militia; 96th Highland Rifle Militia)
3rd Bn The Seaforth Highlanders

(Aberdeenshire or 6th North British Militia Regiment; Royal Aberdeenshire Highlanders Regiment of Militia)
3rd Bn The Gordon Highlanders

(1st North British (or Argyll) Regiment of Militia; Inverness, Banff, Elgin and Nairn Militia; 10th Inverness, Banff, Elgin and Nairn Militia; 76th Inverness, Banff, Elgin and Nairn Militia; 76th Highland Light Infantry Militia)
3rd Battalion The Qeen’s Own Cameron Highlanders

(Stirlingshire Militia; Fifeshire Regiment of Militia; Stirling, Dumbarton, Clackmannan and Kinross Militia “Loyal Infantry”;Highland Borderers Light Infantry)
3rd Bn Princess Louise’s Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

(Renfrew Militia; West Lothian Fencibles; West Lowlanders; Royal Renfrew Militia (Prince of Wales’))
4th Bn Princess Louise’s Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Reserve Battalions 1908 (formed from the Militia Battalions)

Royal Scots

3rd (Reserve) Bn

KOSB

3rd (Reserve) Bn
Cameronians (SR)
3rd (Reserve) Bn
4th (Extra Reserve) Bn

Royal Scots Fusiliers

3rd (Reserve) Bn
Highland Light Infantry
3rd (Reserve) Bn
4th (Extra Reserve) Bn

Black Watch

3rd (Reserve ) Bn

Seaforth Highlanders
3rd (Reserve) Bn
Gordon Highlanders
3rd (Reserve) Bn
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
3rd (Reserve) Bn

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
3rd (Reserve) Bn
4th (Extra Reserve) Bn

Territorial Force Battalions 1908 (formed from the Volunteer Force Battalions)

Royal Scots

4th Bn Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles) TF
5th Bn (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles) TF
6th Bn TF
7th Bn TF
8th Bn TF
9th (Highlanders) Bn TF
10th (Cyclist) Bn TF

KOSB

4th (The Border) Bn TF
5th (Dumfries & Galloway) Bn TF
Cameronians (SR)
5th Bn TF
6th Bn TF
7th Bn TF
8th Bn TF
15th Bn TF (1915) 10th (Scottish) Provisional Bn TF

Royal Scots Fusiliers

4th Bn TF
5th Bn TF
The Ardeer Company TF
11th Bn TF (1917) (later Garrison Guard Bn)
12th (Ayr and Lanark Yeomanry) Bn TF (1917)
Highland Light Infantry
5th (City of Glasgow) Bn TF
6th (City of Glasgow) Bn TF
7th (Blythwood) Bn TF
8th (Lanark) Bn
9th (Glasgow Highland) Bn TF
21st Bn TF (1917)
22nd Bn TF (1918)

Black Watch

4th (City of Dundee) Bn TF
5th (Angus and Dundee) Bn TF
6th (Perthshire) Bn TF
7th (Fife) Bn TF
13th (Scottish Horse Yeomanry) Bn TF (1916)
14th (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Bn TF (1916)
15th Bn (1918)

Seaforth Highlanders
4th (Ross Highland) Bn TF
5th (Sutherland and Caithness Highland) Bn TF
6th (Morayshire) Bn TF
Gordon Highlanders
4th Bn TF
5th (Buchan and Formartin) Bn TF
6th (Banff and Donside) Bn TF
7th (Deeside Highland) Bn TF
The Shetland Companies
14th (County of London) Bn, The London Regt (London Scottish)
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
4th Bn TF
10th (Lovat Scouts) Bn TF (1916)
10th (Scottish) Bn, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
5th (Renfrewshire) Bn TF
6th (Renfrewshire) Bn TF
7th Bn TF
8th (Argyllshire) Bn
9th (The Dumbartonshire) Bn TF
16th Bn TF (1917)

Second and Third Line Territorial Force Battalions raised during WW1

Royal Scots

2/4th and 3/4th
2/5th and 3/5th
2/6th and 3/6th
2/7th and 3/7th
2/8th and 3/8th
2/9th and 3/9th

KOSB

2/4th and 3/4th
2/5th and 3/5th
2/5th and 3/5th
2/6th and 3/6th
2/7th and 3/7th
2/8th and 3/8th
Cameronians (SR)
2/5th and 3/5th
2/6th and 3/6th
2/7th and 3/7th
2/8th and 3/8th

Royal Scots Fusiliers

2/4th and 3/4th
2/5th and 3/5th
Highland Light Infantry
2/5th and 3/5th
2/6th and 3/6th
2/7th and 3/7th

Black Watch

2/4th and 3/4th
2/5th and 3/5th
2/6th and 3/6th
2/7th and 3/7th

Seaforth Highlanders
2/4th and 3/4th
2/5th and 3/5th
2/6th and 3/6th
Gordon Highlanders
2/4th and 3/4th
2/5th and 3/5th
2/6th and 3/6th
2/14th London Scottish
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
2/4th and 3/4th
2/10th and 3/10th (Scottish) Bns, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
2/5th and 3/5th
2/6th and 3/6th
2/7th and 3/7th
2//8th and 3/8th
2/9th and 3/9th

Territorial Army Battalions formed at the end of WW1

Royal Scots

4th/5th Bn (Queen’s Edinburgh (later 52nd Searchlight Regiment)
6th/8th Bn (57th Lowland Medium Brigade Royal Garrison Artillery)
7th/9th Bn

KOSB

5th (Dumfriesshire) Bn
Cameronians (SR)
5th/8th Bn (later 56th Searchlight Regiment)
6th Bn
7th Bn

Royal Scots Fusiliers

4th/5th Bn
Highland Light Infantry
5th (City of Glasgow) Bn
6th (City of Glasgow) Bn
7th Bn (later 83rd AA Regiment RA)
9th (Glasgow Highland) Bn

Black Watch

4th/ 5th (Dundee and Angus) Bn
6th/7th (Perth and Fife) Bn

Seaforth Highlanders
4th/5th (Ross, Sutherland and Caithness Bn
Gordon Highlanders
4th Bn
5th/7th (Buchan, Mar and Mearns) Bn
6th (Banff and Donside) Bn
1st Bn London Scottish
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
4th Bn (became 2nd Regular Bn 1942)

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
5th/6th (Renfrewshire) Bn
7th Bn
8th Bn
9th (Dumbartonshire) Bn (later 54th LAA Brigade RA)

Territorial Army Battalions formed in the 1930s

Royal Scots

8th (Lothians and Peeblesshire) Bn
10th (Home Defence) Bn
11th (Home Defence) Bn
30th Bn

KOSB

6th (The Border) Bn
7th (Galloway) Bn
8th (Home Defence) Bn
30th Bn
Cameronians (SR)
9th Bn
10th (Lanarkshire) Bn
1/11th and 2/11th Bns
13th (Home Defence) Bn
30th Bn

Royal Scots Fusiliers

6th Bn
30th Bn

Highland Light Infantry
1/9th (Glasgow Highland) Bn
2/9th (Glasgow Highland) Bn

Black Watch

4th (City of Dundee) Bn
5th (Angus and Dundee) Bn
6th (Perthshire) Bn
7th (Fife) Bn

12th (Tyneside Scottish) Bn Durham Light Infantry (1939) (later 1st Battalion, the Tyneside Scottish)

Seaforth Highlanders
4th Bn
5th Bn
Gordon Highlanders
4th Bn (Machine Gun Bn 1939 and later 92 Anit-Tank Regiment RA)
5th (Buchan and Formartin) Bn
6th (Banffshire) Bn
7th (Mar and Mearns) Bn
5th/7th Bn
8th (City of Aerdeen) Bn (later 100 Anti-Tank Regiment RA)
9th (Donside) Bn (later 116 Regiment Royal Armoured Corps)
10th (Home Defence) Bn
30th Bn
1st and 2nd Bns London Scottish
3rd Bn London Scottish (later 97 AA Regt RA)
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
5th Bn
6th (Home Defence) Bn
30th Bn
1st Bn The Liverpool Scottish, The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
2nd Bn The Liverpool Scottish (later 89th Anti-Tank Regt RA)

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
5th Bn (Machine Gun Bn later 91st Anti-Tank Regiment RA
6th Bn (Machine Gun Bn later 93rd Anti-Tank Regiment RA) 11th (Argyll and Dumbarton) Bn
13th (Home Defence) Bn
14th (Home Defence) Bn
30th Bn

Territorial Army Units formed as a result of Post WW2 TA Amalgamations

Royal Scots

8th/9th Bn

KOSB

4th/5th Bn

Cameronians (SR)
6th/7th Bn

-
52nd Lowland Volunteers

52nd Lowland, 6th Bn The Royal Regiment of Scotland

Royal Scots Fusiliers

4th/5th Bn

Highland Light Infantry
5th/6th Bn
9th Glasgow Highlanders Bn HLI

-
52nd Lowland Volunteers

52nd Lowland, 6th Bn The Royal Regiment of Scotland

Black Watch

4th/5th Bn
6th/7th Bn

1st Bn Tyneside Scottish became 670 LAA Regt) 1947

-
51st Highland Volunteers (1st, 2nd and 3rd Bns)

51st Highland, 7th Bn The Royal Regiment of Scotland

Seaforth Highlanders
11th Bn

Gordon Highlanders
4th/7th Bn
London Scottish Bn

Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
4th/5th Bn
1st Bn Liverpool Scottish (later V (Liverpool Scottish Company 51st Highland Volunteers and R (King’s/Liverpool Scottish Battery, West Lancashire Regiment RA)

The Lovat Scouts (C Lovat Scouts Sqn Scottish Horse RAC; 677 Mountain Regt Lovat Scouts RA; 540 LAA Regt (Lovat Scouts RA; 532 LAA Regt Lovat Scouts RA; 540 LAA Regt Lovat Scouts RA; Orkney and Zetland Bty Lovat Scouts)

Queen’s Own Highlanders
3rd (Territorial) Bn Queen’s Own Highlanders (1967)

-
51st Highland Volunteers (1st, 2nd and 3rd Bns and 3rd Volunteer Bn The Highlanders)

51st Highland 7th Bn
The Royal Regiment of Scotland

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
7th Bn
8th Bn

-
51st Highland Volunteers (1st, 2nd and 3rd Bns)

51st Highland 7th Bn The Royal Regiment of Scotland

New Army (Kitchener) Service, Reserve, Labour, Garrison and Home Service Battalions of WW1.

All were disbanded at the end of WW1

Royal Scots

11th (Service) Bn
12th (Service) Bn
13th (Service) Bn
14th (Reserve) Bn
15th (Service) Bn
16th (Service) Bn
17th (Service) Bn (Rosebery)
18th (Reserve) Bn
19th (Labour) Bn
1st Garrison Bn
2nd (Home Service) Bn

KOSB

6th (Service) Bn
7th (Service) Bn
8th (Service) Bn
9th (Reserve) Bn
10th (Service) Bn
Cameronians (SR)
9th (Service) Bn
10th (Service) Bn
11th (Service) Bn
12th (Reserve) Bn
13th (Service) Bn
14th (Labour) Bn
16th and 17th (Transport Workers) Bns
18th (Service) Bn
19th (Transport Workers) Bn
20th (Transport Workers) Bn
1st Garrison Bn

Royal Scots Fusiliers

6th (Service) Bn
7th (Service) Bn
8th (Service) Bn
9th (Reserve) Bn
10th (Works) Bn
13th (Home Service) Bn
1st Garrison Bn
Highland Light Infantry
10th (Service) Bn
11th (Service) Bn
12th (Service) Bn
13th (Reserve) Bn
14th (Service) Bn
15th (Service) Bn (1st Glasgow)
16th (Service) Bn (2nd Glasgow)
17th (Service) Bn (3rd Glasgow)
18th (Service) Bn (4th Glasgow)
19th (Reserve) Bn
20th (Reserve) Bn
1st (Reserve) Garrison Bn
51st (Graduated) Bn
52nd (Graduated) Bn
53rd (Young Soldier) Bn

Black Watch

8th (Service) Bn
9th (Service) Bn
10th (Service) Bn
11th (Reserve) Bn
12th (Labour) Bn

20th (Service) Bn (1st Tyneside Scottish) Northumberland Fusiliers
21st (Service) Bn (2nd Tyneside Scottish) Northumberland Fusiliers
22nd (Service) Bn (3rd Tyneside Scottish) Northumberland Fusiliers
23rd (Service) Bn (4th Tyneside Scottish) Northumberland Fusiliers
33rd (Reserve) Bn (Tyneside Scottish) Northumberland Fusiliers

Seaforth Highlanders
7th (Service) Bn
8th (Service) Bn
9th (Service) Bn (Pioneers)
10th (Reserve) Bn
1st Garrison Bn
Gordon Highlanders
8th (Service) Bn
9th (Service) Bn (Pioneers)
10th (Service) Bn
11th (Reserve) Bn
1st Garrison Bn
51st (Graduated) Bn
52nd (Graduated) Bn
53rd (Young Soldier) Bn
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
5th (Service) Bn
6th (Service) Bn
7th (Service) Bn
8th (Reserve) Bn
9th (Labour) Bn
11th (Service) Bn
1st (Home Service) Garrison Bn

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
10th (Service) Bn
11th (Service) Bn
12th (Service) Bn
13th (Reserve) Bn
14th (Service) Bn
15th (Reserve) Bn
17th Bn

Volunteer Force Battalions 1881 to 1908 (formed from Rifle Volunteer Corps)

Royal Scots

Queen’s City of Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer Brigade Royal Scots
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Volunteer Bns The Royal Scots

KOSB

1st Roxburgh and Selkirk VRC
2nd and 3rd Volunteer Bns KOSB
Galloway VRC

Cameronians (SR)
1st Lanarkshire VRC
2nd Volunteer Bn Scottish Rifles
3rd Lanarkshire VRC
4th Volunteer Bn Scottish Rifles

Royal Scots Fusiliers

1st and 2nd Volunteer Bns Royal Scots Fusiliers

Highland Light Infantry
1st, 2nd and 3rd Volunteer Bns HLI
9th Lanarkshire VRC
5th Volunteer Bn HLI

Black Watch

1st, 2nd 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Volunteer Bns Royal Highlanders

Seaforth Highlanders

1st Volunteer Bn Seaforth Highlanders
1st Sutherland VRC
3rd Volunteer Bn Seaforth Highlanders

Gordon Highlanders

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Volunteer Bns Gordon Highlanders

Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
1st Volunteer Bn Cameron Highlanders

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Volunteer Bns Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
1st Dumbartonshire VRC
7th Volunteer Bn Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

The Volunteers (raised in the 1850s and 1860s and organised by Counties) Information taken from the Royal Commission on the Condition of the Volunteer Force 1862)

Aberdeen:       1st Administrative Bn Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
                        2nd Administrative Bn Aberdeenshire RVC
                        3rd Administrative Bn Aberdeenshire RVC
                        1st, 12th, 18th 22nd and 23rd Aberdeenshire RVC

Argyll: 1st Administrative Bn Argyllshire RVC

                         6th, 8th, 10th and 12th Argyllshire RVC
Ayr:                   1st Administrative Bn Ayrshire RVC
Banff:                1st Administrative Bn Banffshire RVC
Berwick:           1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Berwickshire RVC
Caithness:         1st, 2nd and 3rd Caithness RVC
Dumbarton:       1st Administrative Bn Dumbarton RVC
Dumfries:           1st Administrative Bn Dumfriesshire RVC
Edinburgh City: 1st Edinburgh (City) RVC
Elgin:                 1st Administrative Bn Elgin RVC
Fife:                   1st Administrative Bn Fifeshire RVC (including 1st Kinross)
Forfar:                1st Administrative Bn Forfarshire RVC
Haddington:        1st Administrative Bn Haddingtonshire RVC
Inverness:           1st Administrative Bn Inverness-shire RVC
Kincardine:         1st Administrative Bn Kincardineshire RVC
Kircudbright &
Wighton:             1st Administrative Bn Kircudbright & Wigtonshire RVC
Lanark:                1st Admnistrative Bn Lanarkshire RVC
                           2nd Administrative Bn Lanarkshire RVC
                           3rd Administrative Bn Lanarkshire RVC
                           1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 19th, 25th, 29th, 32nd, 43rd, 48th, 49th,                            95th and 97th Lanarkshire RVC
Linlithgow:         1st, 2nd and 3rd Linlithgowshire RVC
Mid-Lothian:       1st Administrative Bn Mid-Lothian RVC
                           1st and 4th Mid-Lothian RVC
Nairn:                  1st Nairn RVC
Orkney:               1st Orkney RVC
Peebles:              1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Peebles-shire RVC
Perth:                  1st Administrative Bn Perthshire RVC
                           2nd Administrative Bn RVC
Renfrew:             1st Administrative Bn Renfrewshire RVC
                           2nd Administrative Bn Renfrewshire RVC
                            3rd Administrative Bn Renfrewshire RVC
Ross:                   1st Administrative Bn Ross-shire RVC
                            3rd Ross-shire RVC
Roxburgh &
Selkirk:                1st Administrative Bn Roxburghshire and Selkirk RVC
Sutherland:          1st Sutherland RVC

15th Middlesex (London Scottish) Rifle Volunteers

Total enrolled Rifle Volunteer members: 27,263

Allied, affiliated and linked Units

The Royal Scots Borderers

The Royal Highland Fusiliers

The Black Watch

The Highlanders

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s)

The 10th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles

The New Brunswick Scottish Regiment

25th Bn (The Darling Downs Regt)

34th Bn (The Illawarra) Regt

The Perth Regiment

26th Bn (The Logan and Albert Regt)

The Otago and Southland Regiment

The Witwatersrand Rifles

The 7th Gurkha Rifles

The 54th Light A A Regt RCA (Scots Fusiliers of Canada)

The 23rd/21st Bn (The City of Geelong Regiment and The Victorian Rangers

Prince Alfred’s Guard

Highland Light Infantry of Canada

The Tyneside Scottish

The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada

The 59th AA Regiment RCA (The Lanark and Renfrew Scottish)

30th Battalion (The New South Wales Scottish Regiment)

42nd Battalion (The Capricornia Regiment)

The 1st Armoured Car Regiment (New Zealand Scottish) RNZAC

The Transvaal Scottish

The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada

The Pictou Highlanders

The 27th Bn (South Australian Scottish Regiment)

The Wellington Regiment (City of Wellington’s Own)

The 48th Highlanders of Canada

5th Battalion (Victorian Scottish Regiment)

The Queen’s Own Cape Town Highlanders

The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa

The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada

16th Bn (The Cameron Highlanders of Western Australia)

37/39 Bn (The Henty Regiment)

52nd Bn (The Gippsland Regiment)

The Otago and Southland Regiment

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise’s)

The Calgary Highlanders
41st Battalion (The Byron Regiment)

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