1877 A History of the Scottish Borderers Militia : Scotland Borders Military

A History of the Scottish Borderers Militia

By Rev. Robert W. Weir

Dumfries; Printed at the Herald Office, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo, 75pp., appendix with succession list of Officers, etc.

CONDITION
A good first edition. The cloth binding is good with light signs of age. Endpapers good and inner hinges sound. All contents present and pages clean throughout. No writing or names to the book. Overall a very good copy.

The King's Own Scottish Borderers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Scottish Division. On 28 March 2006 the regiment was amalgamated with the Royal Scots, the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment), the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons), the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's), 52nd Lowland Regiment, and 51st Highland Regiment to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland. However, after just a few months the battalion merged with the Royal Scots Battalion to form the Royal Scots Borderers.

The regiment moved to Berwick Barracks in July 1881. Under the reforms the regiment became The King's Own Borderers on 1 July 1881. A 3rd, Militia, Battalion was formed as the Scottish Borderers Militia, with headquarters at Dumfries. The regiment became The King's Own Scottish Borderers in 1887.

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