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2 unusual facts about Royal Scots


John Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh

On 5 June 1901 he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the The Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade, the Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment).

LMS Royal Scot Class 6100 Royal Scot

6100 arrived in the Butlins complex on 18 July 1963 piped in by pipers from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Scots.


Battle of Agagia

General Lukin’s force had two battalions of South African infantry, plus the Dorset Yeomanry, Bucks Hussars, Royal Scots and guns of the 1st Nottinghamshire Battery Royal Horse Artillery.


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Archibald McLean

Archibald MacLean, officer in the Royal Scots, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force

Contalmaison

The village is notable for its McCrae's Battalion Great War Memorial which honours the fallen of the 16th Royal Scots.

Deltic 9000 Fund

The next major leap for Royal Scots Grey was in August 2006 when TPWS and OTMR are all certified and mainline tests were successfully completed.

Royal Scots Grey worked her first passenger train for four years at the DPS Doncaster tribute weekend at Barrow Hill and also moves to her new East Lancashire Railway home.

Montgomery-Cuninghame baronets

Sir William Montgomery-Cuninghame, 9th Baronet (1834–1897)was educated at Harrow School and fought in the Crimean War with the Royal Scots Fusiliers, where he won the Victoria Cross.