The regiment was raised to protect the city of Edinburgh at the crisis of the Glorious Revolution, as William of…
David Melville, later Leslie, 3rd Earl of Leven and 2nd Earl of Melville, was born in May 1660 in Fife…
War broke out with France in 1754 when the British had attacked French positions in North America. At the same…
At the outbreak of war in August 1914, the two Regular Battalions and the two Territorial Battalions (4th and 5th)…
Between the two World Wars the 1st Battalion served in India and Chanak (1922), Malta and Palestine (1936). 2nd KOSB…
After the war, 6th and 7th Battalions were disbanded in 1946, and 2nd Battalion in 1947. From 1945 to 1947…
A regimental badge was first introduced in 1805 when the regiment was given its royal status with the title King’s…
Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott, sister of the 8th Duke of Buccleuch, a former CO of the 4th Battalion, was born…
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South Africa: Cape of Good Hope, Natal (confrontation with Boers).
