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7.9RS Officers Badge.

7.9RS Officers Badge.
Joe Brown, May 11, 2013
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      This is the Officers Badge of the 7th/9th (Highlanders) Battalion The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). It is the Star of the Order of The Thistle, the oldest Order of Chivalry in Scotland; second only to the Order of the Garter.

      The Royal Scots claimed the right to wear it as the oldest of the Scottish Regiments, founded in 1633.

      The Scots Guards, founded in 1642, around about the end of the 18th Century felt they had a better claim to wear it being the only Guards Regiment of Scotland. The Colonels of the Regiment reluctantly agreed except the Colonel of the 9th (Highlanders) Battalion The Royal Scots and we retained the original Badge.
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