1st Royal Regiment of Foot [Recruiting North Americans]

[Drummer.]

Regimental Information

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Regimental History

18th Century During the War of the Spanish Succession, the regiment fought at the Battles of Schellenberg and Blenheim (1704), the Battle of Ramillies (1706), the Battle of Oudenarde (1708) and the Battle of Malplaquet (1709). Both battalions spent 1715 to 1742 on service in Ireland, but after this point the battalions were normally separated; the 1st went to Flanders, with the 2nd being sent to the Caribbean as a garrison for Puerto Bello. The 1st saw service in the War of the Austrian Succession at the Battle of Fontenoy (1745), whilst the 2nd was engaged in the Second Jacobite Rising, fighting at the Battle of Falkirk and the infamous Battle of Culloden (1746), after which it returned to Ireland. In 1751, the regiment was titled the 1st Royal Regiment of Foot, ranked as the most senior of the line regiments of infantry. The 2nd Battalion was sent to Nova Scotia in 1757, and saw service in the Seven Years War, capturing Louisburg in 1758, Guadeloupe in 1762 and Havana in 1763, returning home in 1764. Both then served as garrisons in the Mediterranean, the 1st in Gibraltar from 1768–75, and the 2nd in Minorca from 1771-75. The 1st Battalion was sent to the West Indies in 1781, fought in the capture of Sint Eustatius that year, and was itself captured at St. Kitts in January 1782 but exchanged later in the year.

1st's Quilted Shako Plate

Private in the 1st

French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars The 1st Battalion had returned to the West Indies as a garrison in 1790, and served there until 1797, with a brief period of combat in the Haïtian Revolution. The West Indies were hotbeds of disease, and the battalion lost more than half its strength to disease in this period. It was reformed from militia volunteers in Ireland in 1798: This year saw a major rebellion erupt in Ireland after years of simmering tension. The Lothian Fencibles fought with distinction at the Battle of Vinegar Hill, one of the more important engagements of the rebellion. After the rebellion was over in Ireland they were used in minor raids on the coast of Spain in 1800. Meanwhile, from 1793 to 1801, the 2nd Battalion was based in the Mediterranean. It fought at the Siege of Toulon (1793) and the capture of Corsica (1794), returning briefly to Northern Europe for the Battle of Egmont op Zee in the 1799 Helder Campaign, before fighting in the 1801 Egyptian campaign at the Battle of Aboukir and the Battle of Alexandria. Both battalions were subsequently dispatched to the West Indies, the 1st from 1801 to 1812, and the 2nd from 1803 to 1806. The 1st fought at the capture of Saint Lucia, as well as of Demerara and Essequibo in 1803, and the capture of Guadeloupe in 1810. The 2nd then moved to India, where it would remain until 1826, whilst the 1st was sent to Quebec with the outbreak of the War of 1812. It fought in the battles of Sackett's Harbor and Buffalo & Black Rock, as well as the capture of Fort Niagara (1813), the battles of Longwoods, Chippawa, and Lundy's Lane, along with the Siege of Fort Erie and the battle of Cook's Mills (1814). In February 1812, the regiment was retitled as the 1st Regiment of Foot (Royal Scots), the first official appearance of the popular name. The capture of San Sebastián, diorama in the Royal Scots Regimental Museum Two new battalions were raised in late 1804, at Hamilton, the 3rd and 4th Battalions. The 3rd served in the Peninsular War from 1808 to 1809, fighting at the Battle of Corunna in 1809 before being withdrawn by sea and sent to the Walcheren Campaign with the 1st Division. It returned to Portugal in 1810 with the 5th Division, fighting at the Battle of Buçaco (1810), the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro (1811), the battles of Badajoz, Salamanca and Burgos (1812), the Battle of Vitoria, capture of San Sebastián, Battle of Nivelle, and the Battle of Nive (1813), before advancing into France in 1814. It was sent to Belgium during the Hundred Days, and fought in Picton's Division (the 5th) at the Battle of Waterloo (1815). After two years in the Army of Occupation, it was disbanded at Canterbury in 1817. The 4th was deployed to the Baltic in 1813, being involved with the recapture of Stralsund, and fought in the Netherlands in 1814, where it was captured and exchanged. It was then dispatched to Canada as part of the War of 1812, where it served as a garrison. It was withdrawn to England with the end of the fighting and disbanded at Dover in 1816.

19th century The 1st battalion was sent to Ireland after the end of the Napoleonic wars, and stationed there from 1816 until 1825, when it was moved to the West Indies, where it remained until 1835. The 2nd battalion, however, had a more active time; based in India, it was involved in the Third Anglo-Maratha War, where it fought at the Battle of Nagpore (1817) and Battle of Mahidpur (1818), and in the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824-26. It moved to Scotland in 1830, and to Canada in 1836, where it was involved in the Rebellions of 1837. A move to the West Indies in 1843 was complicated by half the regiment being shipwrecked and delayed several months, but was successful, and the regiment finally returned to Scotland in 1846. Both battalions saw active service in the Crimean War, with the 1st fighting at the battles of Alma and Inkerman (1854), and both fighting in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854-5), where the regiment's first VC was won. After the war, the 1st battalion moved to Ceylon in 1857 and thence to India, returning home in 1870, whilst the 2nd battalion moved to Hong Kong, and saw action in the Second Opium War, fighting at the capture of the Taku Forts (1858) and Pekin (1860), and returning home in 1861. The regiment was not fundamentally affected by the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, which gave it a depot at Glencorse from 1873, or by the Childers reforms of 1881 – as it already possessed two battalions, there was no need for it to amalgamate with another regiment. However, as it had become the county regiment of the Edinburgh area, it was retitled The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment), and it took on a militia battalion and seven battalions of Volunteers from the local area. The regimental district was reorganised in 1887, with Berwickshire being transferred to the recruiting area of the King's Own Scottish Borderers along with the country; the remaining volunteers were reorganised in 1888, for a total of eight volunteer battalions.

Colors of the 1st

About the Colors In 1751, a Royal Warrant introduced for the foot regiments of the line a two-color system that is still used by the British Army. Each regiment received a King's Color, described as "the Grand Union throughout," (shown at left) and a Regimental Color with a field in the regimental facing color and a canton of the Union Flag. Regiments whose facings were white or gray received a Regimental Colour with a white field quartered by a broad red cross. For regiments with black facings, the Regimental Colour was black, quartered by a broad red cross. In the case of the 1st of Foot, the ground is blue in honor of the "Royal" designation. On both colors, the number of the regiment, in gold Roman numerals, was to appear within a "union wreath" of roses and thistles. However, those regiments of the "Old Corps" (the 1st through 6th Reg. of Foot) with "ancient devices" or royal badges, such as the Royals, were permitted to bear them on the colors, in which case the regimental number appeared in the upper hoist. As one of six Regiments of Foot of the Old Corps, The 1st Foot was entitled to bear special badges on its colors. The Royal Cipher of the monarch (here George II) appeared within a crowned Circle of St. Andrew, which bears the motto of the Order of the Thistle. (This changed to the collar and badge of the Order of the Thistle in 1812 when the 1st Royals were given the title of "Royal Scots"). In three corners of the Regimental Colour was the floral badge of Scotland, a crowned thistle. (This was changed to crowned thistles on a red ground within a circlet of St. Adnrew in 1812. Additionally, a sphinx was added under the wreath in 1802 to commemorate the campaign in Egypt.) The 1st Foot was a two-battalion regiment; the colors of the 2nd Battalion (shown here) were distinguished from those of the 1st Battalion by the addition a golden "stream blazant" issuing from the hoist or canton.

Ranks and Roster

Ranks

Officers Colonel - Col Lieutenant Colonel - LtCol  Major - Major Captain - Cpt Lieutenant - Lt Ensign - Ens

NCO's Serjeant Major - SjtMaj  Colour Serjeant - CSjt Serjeant - Sjt Corporal - Cpl

Enlisted Lance-Corporal - LCpl Fusilier - Fus Kingsman -  Kgm Regular - Rgl Private - Pte Recruit - Rec

Roster

Officers Colonel Drummer

NCO's Empty

Enlisted Empty

Schedule Monday: Left empty to be filled in Tuesday: Left empty to be filled in Wednesday: Left empty to be filled in      Thursday: Left empty to be filled in Friday: Left empty to be filled in Saturday: Left empty to be filled in Sunday: Left empty to be filled in

Regimental Song "Ye croppies of Wexford, I'd have ye be wise and go not to meddle with Mid-Lothian Boys For the Mid-Lothian Boys they vow and declare They'll crop off your head as well as your hair derry, down, down. Remember at Ross and at Vinegar Hill How your heads flew about like chaff in a mill For the Mid-Lothian Boys when a croppy they see they blow out his daylights and tip him cut three derry, down, down."

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