Author: James FergusonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Record of the 9th (Volunteer) Battalion (Highlanders) the Royal Scots, 1900-1909
Author: James FergusonRecord of the 9th [Volunteer] Battalion (Highlanders), the Royal Scots; Or, The Raising of a Volunteer Regiment and Its Conversion Into a Full-strength Battalion of the Territorial Force. 1900-1909
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Author: Great Britain. - Army. - Infantry. - Royal Scots, 9th Volunteer BattalionPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A History of the 9th (Highlanders) Royal Scots
Author: Neill GilhooleyPublisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 152673530X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Edinburgh is forever bound to The Royal Scots, the oldest in the British Army and now part of The Royal Regiment of Scotland. For a period in the early twentieth century, it also had a Highland battalion, the kilted 9th Royal Scots, which became affectionately known as the Dandy Ninth. The battalion was formed in the aftermath of the Boer War’s Black Week. It sent volunteers to South Africa and established itself as Edinburgh’s kilted battalion, part of the Territorial Force of part-time soldiers. Mobilised in 1914 as part of the Lothian Brigade, they defended Edinburgh and environs from the threat of invasion, and constructed part of the landward defences around Liberton Tower. They were part-time soldiers and new recruits, drawn from the breadth of society but with a strong representation of lawyers and included a number of Scotland rugby players and artists, such as the Scottish Colourist F.C.B. Cadell, and William Geissler of the Edinburgh School. A remarkably high proportion of the battalion received commissions and served in many branches of the armed forces, and in many theatres. In the Great War they mobilised to France and Flanders and served in many of the major actions: in Ypres in both the Sedon and Third (Passchendaele) Battles of Ypres as well as in the Battle of the Lys in 1918; on the Somme 1916 at High Wood and the Ancre (Beaumont Hamel), at Arras 1917 (Vimy Ridge); at Cambrai 1917 (Fontaine); and during the 1918 German Spring Offensive at St Quentin and at the Battle of Soissonais-Ourcq. They were with the 15th (Scottish) Division in the Advance to Victory. Some 6,000 men passed through the ranks of the Dandy Ninth and over a thousand never returned.
A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army
Author: Arthur S. WhitePublisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 178150539X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This is one of the most valuable books in the armoury of the serious student of British Military history. It is a new and revised edition of Arthur White's much sought-after bibliography of regimental, battalion and other histories of all regiments and Corps that have ever existed in the British Army. This new edition includes an enlarged addendum to that given in the 1988 reprint. It is, quite simply, indispensible.
Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: The Royal Scots
Author: Trevor RoylePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1780572387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Royal Scots are Scotland's oldest infantry regiment, with a tradition that stretches back to 1633. This first concise history of the regiment is based largely on the recollections of several generations of Royal Scots - men like Private McBane, who carried his three-year-old son into battle at Malplaquet, and Private Begbie, the youngest soldier to serve in the First World War. These first-hand accounts take the reader through the great wars of the eighteenth century, when Britain was a rising global power, through the setbacks and the triumphs of the Napoleonic Wars and on to the glorious years of the nineteenth century. The two world wars of the twentieth century saw the Royals expand in size, and there are full accounts of its meritorious service on all the main battle fronts. More recently, the regiment has been involved in operations in the Balkans and Iraq. In 2006, in one of the most radical changes in the country's defence policy, the Royal Scots will be amalgamated into the new Royal Regiment of Scotland. Royal Scots is, therefore, a timely celebration of the British Army's most venerable regiment, right of the line and second to none.
Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research
Author: Society for Army Historical Research (London, England)Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Records of the Scottish Volunteer Force, 1859-1908
Author: Sir James Moncrieff GriersonPublisher: Edinburgh W. Blackwood 1909.
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Includes 47 coloured plates of uniforms.
Catalogue
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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