The Royal Scots, once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the oldest and most senior infantry regiment of the line of the British Army, having been raised in 1633 during the reign of Charles I. T
Private of the Royal Regiment of Foot in 1742
1754 portrait of a regimental lieutenant
c. 1796 painting of a regimental soldier and captain
The capture of San Sebastián, diorama in the Royal Scots Regimental Museum
The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. The regiment was created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881, when the 42nd R
Royal Scots
…Borderers to become the Royal Scots Borderers, which merged with the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment), the Black Watch, the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland. In April 1633, Sir…
1892 painting of a regimental sentry
Illustration of the regiment after the Battle of Magersfontein
Regimental soldiers firing rifle grenades, 1917
10th (Service) Battalion, Black Watch entrenching in the hills between the villages of Aivatli and Laina above the port of Salonika, Greece, December 1915