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- The Beginnings
  The regiment was raised to protect the city of Edinburgh at the crisis of the Glorious Revolution, as William of…
- The Earl of Leven
  David Melville, later Leslie, 3rd Earl of Leven and 2nd Earl of Melville, was born in May 1660 in Fife…
- Minden
  War broke out with France in 1754 when the British had attacked French positions in North America. At the same…
- World War One
  At the outbreak of war in August 1914, the two Regular Battalions and the two Territorial Battalions (4th and 5th)…
- World War Two
  Between the two World Wars the 1st Battalion served in India and Chanak (1922), Malta and Palestine (1936). 2nd KOSB…
- Post World War Two
  After the war, 6th and 7th Battalions were disbanded in 1946, and 2nd Battalion in 1947. From 1945 to 1947…
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  A regimental badge was first introduced in 1805 when the regiment was given its royal status with the title King’s…
- Colonel-in-Chief
  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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This Evening on the High Street, Edinburgh,1689

Formation of the regiment

THE RAISING OF THE REGIMENT